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I'm not talking dance music, another topic.

And me, personally, raised on pop, classical, and jazz, I would not expect everybody on ASR to be interested or even like it.

My younger friends are all about modular synth, micro synth, and hybrid laptop performance. It is a revival of the great modular synth era of Moog, Buchla, Oberheim, and others which followed the musique concrète movement.

Modular synth is exploding propelled by the Eurorack format.

The micro synth, with early participation by Korg, has companies like Teenage Engineering, which is likely extremely profitable.

You can simulate modular synth in a laptop, or combine creation and processing in laptop software.

In our town, in Summer, we have free concerts with 5-7 performers in sequence in the parks. We have synth classes and a synth lending library. We have a synth store.

What are ASR community discoveries in experimental music, modular synth, 21st Century, field recording, new electronic, and ambient?

Eurorack


Teenage Engineering


Korg KAOSS Pad

 
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Gabriele Gasparotti


 
Patrica Wolf

 
Modular on the Spot is an outdoor performance project in many countries

 
I had an OP-1 for a while. I bought it on the basis that Rick Cox used it with Jon Hassell. I couldn't get started with it, Idk why. Ended up hating it and hating Teenage Engineering too and selling it. OP-1 was far too expensive for what it could do. I still have my Casio VL-1 which I bought new in the early 80s.

Korg Kaoss Pad, original version, otoh, I got a lot out of it. That choice was inspired by K.K. Null. I used it in a custom rack built around a Korg DL8000R, parametric filters, and stuff that I used as a guitar effect. There's an example of how I played it below in which you can clearly hear the KP-1 in use.

 
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Multicore said:
I had an OP-1 for a while. I bought it on the basis that Rick Cox used it with Jon Hassell. I couldn't get started with it, Idk why.
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I bought one when they first came out around 2011ish I think, played with it for a while alongside my Native Instrument stuff then sold it on for what it cost (£750), nice bit of kit but rather limited in what it could do.

I’ll try and find my old 5 min videos of it
 
Somafunk said:
I bought one when they first came out around 2011ish I think, played with it for a while alongside my Native Instrument stuff then sold it on for what it cost (£750), nice bit of kit but rather limited in what it could do.
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There was a time after the first batch sold out at about $700 and then we waited and waited and it came back to market at $1000. (Damn Teenagers.) So if you were selling during that first gap you likely could have got good resale.
 
Multicore said:
There was a time after the first batch sold out at about $700 and then we waited and waited and it came back to market at $1000. (Damn Teenagers.) So if you were selling during that first gap you likely could have got good resale.
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Nope.........sold it to Mike Hulme (of 100mg of MDMA fame) for £550 :facepalm:.

We/our crowd, used to run the Dance tents at Wickerman festival and booked/played/partied with a lot of DJ's/producers so equipment was always swapping hands between us all.

I once offered to buy Erol Alken's Allen & Heath Xone mixer when he finished his set but my offer of half oz of weed was turned down........damn :p


https://soundcloud.com/mikehulme%2F100mg
 
Back to modular synthesis. This is the only piece I composed with a score that someone else could play, with the appropriate equipment. Again, just one patch, no keyboard or other MIDI controller, just the three knobs on the Micro Modular itself, straight no overdub performance of the synth. It's long.

https://soundcloud.com/thefsb%2F00-mobility-1
 
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I am a recording and performing artist who worked with modular synths from the early 2010s until a couple of years ago. You can find me on the music services as -> prettyhowtown

My live work is more dance-able, sometimes with a collaborator like Violin Girl (Amanda Marks) or the sadly departed Jamie Shadowlight:

 
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Sounds way older than any OP-1.

There's nothing so enduringly fashionable as nostalgia.
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Think that track was 2009/10 so nothing to do with op-1, if I had “loadsa disposable” income and also didn’t suffer from SPMS/housebound issues then I’d likely end up with the gamut of Teenage Engineering Field devices as I think they’re all cool/cute/novel etc…….and 6 months later probably end up selling them all for a loss.
 
This is a night put on in Glasgow for all synth lovers, whether that be modular or solid state based.

youtube.com

Attack Release Glasgow

A community for lovers and/or producers of live experimental electronic music
youtube.com youtube.com

 
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is that a Harry Enfield reference?
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Loadsa/loads’ve/shit-loads/lots of

All descriptions of accumulated monetary wealth that throughout my life has never existed for myself

;)

And “loads’a money” Enfield reference of course
 
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