Buchla 208c Easel Command with ARP-2600 Moog Grandmother and Eurorack live avant-garde music

This is a long form avant-garde electronic music improvisation of a piece called "Midsummer" that was just released on the Anticipating Nowhere record label. This is a piece of programmatic music that focuses on the pagan holiday of Litha or Midsummer, which represents a day of inner power and focus and also the yearly battle between the Oak King and the Holly King. On Midsummer, the Holly King, who represents night, wins the battle, and the days steadily get darker until the winter solstice. The piece begins with a celebratory mood for the holiday and then moves through the battle to darkness.
I'm using the whole kitchen sink here, with the ARP-2600 ring modulation providing rhythm, the Moog Grandmother providing melodic content, and the Buchla Easel Command providing rhythms and melodies. I do some live patching and repatching to get the different sounds to happen. I'm also making use of Eurorack modules, including a Jove filter, an Intellijel Dixie II, an Intellijel Quadrax, and I'm using the Serge Variable Q VCF as the percussion sound in the beginning by pinging it with a Stillson Hammer sequencer. I'm making extensive use of random voltage from the Frap Tools Sapèl. I'm also using a Morphagene loaded with some electro magnetic interference sounds and the running that through a Monsoon (clouds clone) granular synthesizer to make some texture happen. Effects are a 4ms Tapographic Delay, a Make Noise Erbeverb, a Boss RC-5 looper pedal, and an Eventide H9 pedal. The Make Noise 0-ctrl is standing in as my 218 touch controller until Buchla start making them again.

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