Deep Listening

Pauline Oliveros talks about the difference between hearing and listening. Great stuff!

Electric Shock 2016 and Erkki Kurenniemi

Sähköisku 2016 happening took place in Tampere's Music Academy located in the beautiful Pyynikki area of Tampere. Music Academy is a learning environment shared by music students of TAMK and Tampere Conservatoire, a private institute providing education in music and dance. Sähköisku 2016 showcased the academy's music technology and electronic music students together with the dancers of academy. High light of the happening was the lecture of Erkki Kurenniemi's instruments by DIMI-trio and the concert of the evening by the students and DIMI-trio.

Erkki Kurenniemi is a Finnish electronic music pioneer. He is best known as an inventor of electronic music instruments from 1963-1973. DIMI-trio is an electronic/experimental music group performing with Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic instruments. Kai Lassfolk played DICO, Mikko Ojanen played DIMI-A and Jari Suominen played the Electric Quartet instrument. Electric Quartet is a collective instrument consisting of a main unit with tone generators and a sequencer and a set of controllers for electrical saxophone and drum machine. DICO is a monophonic synthesiser with a digital sequencer and DIMI-A is a two voice synth with a sequencer equipped with a digital memory. DIMI-A is probably the most noticeable of Kurenniemi's instruments because of it's futuristic touchpad interface. Here is good SOS-article of Erkki Kurenniemi (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep13/articles/erkki.htm).

DIMI-trio's music has a lot of personality with raw digital sounds but also interesting and beautiful sound's with surprisingly warm touch. I think this demonstrates clearly the fact that with human touch the most bizarre digital machines can produce warm music with lot of depth and character.

Thanks to the Academy for a very inspiring day!

Music Academy's Pro Tools Studio

Verde Audio's tube gear.

Music Academy's Euro-modular.

DICO in good hands.

DIMI-trio in action. From left to right; DICO, DIMI-A, Electric Quartet.

DIMI-A's user interface.

Electric Quartet with sax and drum controllers.

Sähköisku/Electric Shock 2016

Next sunday (13.3.) I am heading to Tampere's Sähköisku 2016 happening. Interesting program: VerdeAudio modulars, Ladettes Otamatone/Omnichord battle, lecture of Erkki Kureniemi's electronic instruments, DIMI-trio concert. I put here more information after the happening!

Moog Prodigy clone in Eurorack format

My Moog Prodigy clone-project is now in version 2.7E. That E means that it is now also Euromodular size (104HP). Most important inputs are in the PCB with minijacks (Volt/Octave, Filter CV, Gate input). Audio Out is also in the PCB. I must still figure out can I also add the PWM-inputs to the PCB or are they in an separate expander module. Pitch and Modulation wheels are anyway in an separate module.

Layout of the front panel

PCB can be seen behind the front panel

Portable Modular Case

Finally it's ready! Still it needs some polishing but it is already usable. I ordered two 6U 104HP eurorack frames from Clicks & Clocks (http://clicksclocks.de/795) that I fitted to this old Sony video-camera case. So now I have 416HP places to fill in this portable modular case!

 

Kyteman modular setup

Here Colin Benders (Kyteman) is explaining his setup and what is his modular-philosophy.

Kyteman in Kytopia

Nice Eurorack-modular performance by Kyteman (Colin Benders). This was recorded in his Kytopia-studios in Utrecht Netherlands (http://www.kytopia.com). Hopefully we will hear more modular-stuff from him.

Kyteman - Root Canal Therapy from Kytopia on Vimeo.