How to make a minimal modular performance feat Mathias Puech
May 20, 2020 10:39:29 GMT
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Post by sycophante on May 20, 2020 10:39:29 GMT
Hello,
You can find the performance here and you can take a look at his rack on modulargrid (though it does not tell much since every one of his MI modules are working on his parasites) : you'll notice that the rack is pretty small, hence the "minimal" aspect of the music.
It's a small concert going through different little pieces of music a bit like a dj mix. The idea was that Puech has different sound sources set up (an harmonic oscillator with a sequence, a radio music with different pre-recorder sounds, a contact mic going through a resonnator) all this is going to a four channel mixer, then through the tapographic. The tapographic is a rich delay wich, instead of reapating regularly, repeats to a rythm you can tap on pressure sensible sensor. Adding feedback to this, it can go to chorus and reverb territories. So in the end, this is a really simple, but awesome idea : make tiny little fun patches, alternate between them with a mixer, blend them together and make them evolve with a cool versatile effect!
This allows you to make a varying piece with several little "songs", "beats", "scenes" (name them as you like), rather than trying to make a super long repeating piece, wich can be difficult and tough at the end, and maybe isn't the best live thing at the end.
I'm sure this can be done with AEM, given that we now have a lot of possible sound sources (Osc, Solina, Algodrone, Drumkit, external, etc...) and then multi-fx surely can be used as a quite versatile effect to go through at the end of your chain.
Personally, I see this as an awesome way to structure my patches, practice performing and maybe at some point getting out of my bedroom to perform live with my AEM system.
Since I think there are some people here interested in talking about their creative process, I thought it would be cool to share some insights from Mathias Puech on how he produces a minimal ambient/expe/noisy performance. Puech is a cool expetimental musician, he's also creator of the parasites (alternative firmwares for MI modules), the 4ms tapographic, and more recently the 4ms ensemble oscillator. After one of his performances, Puech explained the architecture of his patch initially made to demonstrate the tapographic. I find that it is a pretty simple yet rich way of creating patches for performances, that maybe can help people (like me) that are struggling to reconcile their patching routine with their "productivity".
You can find the performance here and you can take a look at his rack on modulargrid (though it does not tell much since every one of his MI modules are working on his parasites) : you'll notice that the rack is pretty small, hence the "minimal" aspect of the music.
It's a small concert going through different little pieces of music a bit like a dj mix. The idea was that Puech has different sound sources set up (an harmonic oscillator with a sequence, a radio music with different pre-recorder sounds, a contact mic going through a resonnator) all this is going to a four channel mixer, then through the tapographic. The tapographic is a rich delay wich, instead of reapating regularly, repeats to a rythm you can tap on pressure sensible sensor. Adding feedback to this, it can go to chorus and reverb territories. So in the end, this is a really simple, but awesome idea : make tiny little fun patches, alternate between them with a mixer, blend them together and make them evolve with a cool versatile effect!
This allows you to make a varying piece with several little "songs", "beats", "scenes" (name them as you like), rather than trying to make a super long repeating piece, wich can be difficult and tough at the end, and maybe isn't the best live thing at the end.
I'm sure this can be done with AEM, given that we now have a lot of possible sound sources (Osc, Solina, Algodrone, Drumkit, external, etc...) and then multi-fx surely can be used as a quite versatile effect to go through at the end of your chain.
So yeah, I just thought there was some good ideas here to share with my synth community, and good startpoint for discussion.
Personally, I see this as an awesome way to structure my patches, practice performing and maybe at some point getting out of my bedroom to perform live with my AEM system.
