Synthesist Benge (Benjamin David Edwards) shared this live performance, featuring the Roland SH-5 synthesizer and a compact Eurorack effects box.
“It builds up a bit like the swell of the ocean on a rainy day,” notes Benge.
Here’s what he has to say about the technical details:
“This is a live performance on the Roland SH5 using my newly formed “concrete” box.
The box has 4 loopers, 3 delays, a granular pitch shifter, a filter, 2 compressors, a stereo FX AID unit based on the Spin FV1 chip and an O’Tool monitor
Developer & synthesist Linus Åkesson shared his arrangement of Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) for the Qweremin.
The Qweremin is described as a ‘QWERTY theremin’. It’s played by using the right hand on the keyboard to play individual notes, and the left hand to control volume and vibratro.
Here’s his intro to the Qweremin:
You can find out more about the Qweremin QWERTY Theremin at his site.
The video captures a live performance on the Midnight Special by Billy Preston, Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff on The Original New Timbral Orchestra, aka T.O.N.T.O.
Cecil & Margouleff were some of the first musicians to bring modular synthesizer to popular music. They produced the classic albums of Stevie Wonder, and worked with variety of musicians, ranging from Billy Preston to Ravi Shankar.
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