Synthesist Karol Pokojowczyk (Caught in Joy) shared this live Berlin School style performance, Analog crabs, from his album La chica de la playa.
“These live electronic music performances blend elements of the ’70s electronica, dark ambient, minimal and Berlin School,” Pokojowczyk notes, “Performed right at my home studio, featuring various Moog synthesizers, such as Moog One, Matriarch, Mavis, Prophet-10, and modular synths in the Eurorack format. Each instrument is intricately patched using some diverse guitar pedals to enhance the ambience and mood.”
Electrum Modular shared this performance of seminal minimalist composer Terry Riley‘s composition, In The Summer, arranged for Buchla Music Easel.
What they shared about the performance:
I’ve been reading Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco’s excellent book, Analog Days. Apparently, when Don Buchla unveiled his prototype Buchla Box at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1965, the most enthusiastic witness was Terry Riley, the pioneer of minimalist music. “I think I’ll do some music on that,” Riley said.
Sadly, there’s no recording or other evidence of Riley playing the Buchla (at least that I can find). But given that they crossed paths at the Tape Music Center, I thought it would be appropriate to use the Buchla Music Easel to do a cover of one of my favorite Riley pieces: “In the Summer” (1974).
Composed for the soundtrack of art-house film, Lifespan, this piece was reissued in 2007 on the CD, Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan.”
Synthesist, composer and synth designer Peter Grenader shared this video, capturing a live performance by re:VOLT, live at the San Fransisco Electronic Music Festival.
The performance features two pieces: Maurice Ravel’s Scarbo; and Morton Subotnick’s Sidewinder.
Scarbo comes from Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, a three-movement piano work from 1908. Sidewinder, from 1971, is a ‘tape music’ piece, created on a Buhcla modular synthesizer. Here, it has been reimagined for live performance.
re:VOLT (Jill Fraser, Peter Grenader + Thomas Klepper) were recorded live at the 2023 San Fransisco Electronic Music Festival, September 16, 2023 at The Lab.
