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kambalka · 1 year

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MODEL 288.

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#kambalka #buchla #time #domain #processor #288

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catsonsynthesizersinspace · 1 month

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vizreef · 11 months

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Buchla Touché // Analog - Digital Hybrid Synth (US, 1978)

#buchla #synth #west coast synthesis #tech

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experimental-reminiscence · 2 years

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SGL-73 - Synthetic Growth Lab 1973 AI artork by Erik Söderberg

#buchla #synth #synthesizers #lab #retro #vintage #oldschool #midjourney #AI #stable diffusion #artwork

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hellkitepriest · 1 month

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Buchla 266 - Source of Uncertainty (variants)

#buchla #synthesizer #just obsessed with the design here

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schibborasso · 4 months

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David Rosenbloom using the BUCHLA 300 System (electronic music festival at music gallery, 1980)

#electronic music #buchla #80s

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ruinedholograms · 9 days

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Lixiviation (1969-1985)

#vinyl #music #records #albums #suzanne ciani #electronic music #buchla #synthesizer #album art #80s #70s #hologram parade #black and white

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mywifeleftme · 10 days

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361: bill bissett & The Mandan Massacre // Awake in Th Red Desert

Awake in Th Red Desert bill bissett & Th Mandan Massacre 1968, See/Hear Productions (Bandcamp)

(From “mor memoreez uv marvara reel konversaysyun,” scars on the seehors, Talonbooks 1999)

That’s a sample of how poet bill bissett’s writing looks on the page, phonetic and arbitrary, intuitive and free, while also checking the reader from taking any word for granted. The poems are frequently conversational in tone, but the way you have to sound out his writing to understand it means the reader's cadence ends up replicating the idiosyncratic singsong way bissett speaks. The 84-year-old remains a one-of-a-kind live performer, doodling all over the line between spoken poetry and song. He croons nonsense lullabies and pastiche ragas, shakes a maraca, intones mantras until their familiar words lose all their sense, even dances a little. It’s funny—I wouldn’t recommend his writing to someone unfamiliar with the avant-garde, but I would confidently take just about any open-minded person to see one of his shows. He has the affect of a holy fool or a joyful monk, and basically anything he does makes more sense in the context of his corporeal presence.

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Back in 1968 though, bill was a wild young man, and Awake In Th Red Desert, his LP with backing “band” Th Mandan Massacre, is full of noisy freakouts and some patience-testing explorations. The Massacre includes four percussionists, some trained (jazz drummer Gregg Simpson) and some not (poet Martina Clinton, bill’s then-partner); electric guitar; two flutes (one a toy); and cutting edge Buchla Box synthesizer by the otherwise unknown Wayne Carr. Response to Red Desert has been pretty mixed—one of its Bandcamp uploads even warns, “Please preview the tracks before downloading. There are no refunds.” I suspect many listeners don’t make it past the first side of the record, which often sounds like what it is: clattering free improvisations around bissett’s sung or shouted recitations. On the flip though, things mellow out for some fascinating minimal synth explorations, bissett doing his visionary thing on a haunting electronic field (see “fires in the tempul”). “she, still and curling” is particularly freaky, Carr making sinister cricket noises with his Buchla, tape of bissett’s voice chopped up into hypnotic loops, layered and manipulated till it sounds like a collage of short wave radio transmissions. The ramshackle noise of the early tracks eventually returns on the awesome “now according to paragraph ‘c’”: bissett reads what (initially) seems like a found text that gets weirder and bolder as the poet works himself into a lather, the Buchla’s bleak tones tattered by the percussion squad’s stiff beat.

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I snagged this off Montrealer Alex Moskos, who oversaw the reissue for Massachusetts-based avant-garde label Feeding Tube, and getting this thing back out there has clearly been a labour of love for him (the production quality is impeccable; great explanatory liner notes too). Are there 500 people who want this record? I’m not sure. But for fans of bissett, sound poetry, freaky music, and early electronic, this’ll be of interest. One idea: tell people Awake was the work of a solar death cult leader from the Pacific Northwest who disappeared during an eclipse and they won’t be able to keep the damn thing in stock.

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#bill bissett #sound poetry #avant garde #'60s music #canadian music #blewointment #talonbooks #bpnichol #canadian poetry #poetry #concrete poetry #performance art #freak folk #buchla #music review #vinyl record #counter culture

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spinningvoices · 1 year

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Spinning Voices - “Backslash Mouse”

a loopy glitch/idm track featuring a familiar logo.

made with arturia buchla v, ableton

#music #spinning voices #idm #glitch music #dic #dic logo #experimental music #buchla #ableton #electronic music

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aaronkraten · 2 years

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Small Music Space

The noisy part of my life I have always been fascinated by music gear and noise . I have had all this stuff for ages and it never gets old.

#juno6 #Juno60 #Moog #Buchla #skateboarding #artist #delay #Jazzmaster #Moogvoyager #Skateboardart #Sh101 #Production #electronic music

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zef-zef · 3 months

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Suzanne Ciani - Improvisation on Four Sequences for Resident Advisor (2018)

Binaural audio: please put your headphones on for the full 3D experience.

Director and Editor: Patrick Nation Producer and Editor: Guy Clarke Camera: Sophie Misrahi, Stephen Dunn, Patrick Nation, Guy Clarke Sound: Flynn McBurney and Guy Clarke

#2010s #Suzanne Ciani #Electronic #Progressive Electronic #Experimental #Ambient #Live Electronic #women in electronic music #Resident Advisor #modular synth #buchla #Youtube

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kambalka · 1 year

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