Modulisme is celebrating 3 years of existence thru special compilations named 3 Year Itch Birthday Session and here’s v.3

Klaatu – Escape to Victory, 1981 !!! 
Born in 1945 Klaatu embraced the Buchla aesthetics back in the 70s during a stay in San Francisco… Returning to Marseille even if he was acquainted with Marcel Frémiot, Francis Miroglio or Jean-Claude Risset – whose works he respected – he felt apart, quite extraterrestrial driving his Buchla 200 spaceship… Solitary and discreet he used to express himself in music only : « Escape to Victory 1981 »  is not in hommage to that movie directed by John Huston the same year but rather a cry of contentment after François Mitterrand’s election victory. In a difficult context, after the eviction of the comedian Coluche and so many years to support the governance of the Right wing party many of us felt happy and victorious. Delusion came afterwards but that’s another story, for now w are proud to make this song public more than 40 years after it was recorded… Even if socially we have since lost a lot, there is still this victory thanks to the music.

Philippe Petit – IOU oui
Thought I’d play my Buchla System 200 and work on a short suite to Klaatu’s while mirroring some of his melodies on my Serge system… 
40+ years later expressing how much I owe to such innovators, remembering that the further backwards I listen the further forward I can think… 
This is exactly where my music lies, deeply influenced by the pioneers of electronic music while refusing any kind of passeism and deeply current, my present is retro-futuristic.

Benge – B200 sidewaves 2-04
Benge is an electronic musician and producer working in the analogue and digital domains. He is an advocate of vintage synthesisers and music equipment, and has created a large body of work made at his Memetune Studios in the UK. His latest project is a self-made TV series covering the history and use of electronic instruments called “The Memetune Programme”

Michael White – Transmission
Since 2006 Michael White has created music using the STS Serge Modular Music System. Over the years his original 2 panel Animoo and TKB has expanded (with the guidance of his buddy Rex Probe) into a beast that at times is mangy, disheveled and unruly and other times pure and simple. Described as ambient tone poems, the music drifts somewhere between classifications or styles. In 2020 he began releasing music on Bandcamp.

Doug Lynner – Occasion 3
Doug Lynner is a lifelong musician whose career started as a keyboardist and guitarist in psychedelic rock bands in the 60s. In parallel he got a college degree in electronic music composition from the California Institute of the Arts where he studied with Morton Subotnick, Harold Budd, James Tenny, Leonid Hambro and Nicholis England.
He does perform internationally, host a weekly FM radio show (Bloop and Quack), teaches electronic music and music composition privately, and, host free modular synthesizer tutorial videos.

Tom Djll – Salutes
Tom Djll studied electronic music with Stephen Scott at the Colorado College, working with the EMS Synthi 100. He spent 1981-1993 working with the Serge Modular Music System (SERGE WORKS published by Other Minds’ Modern Hits netlabel, 2018) before enrolling in Mills College Contemporary Music Program, where he extended his quest to develop and integrate an idiosyncratic trumpet language into electronic sound worlds. He resides in California.

Palle Dahlstedt – Pipes
Palle’s music, ranging from piano solos over orchestral music to interactive software installations, has been performed on six continents, and been awarded several international prizes (e.g., Gaudeamus Prize 2001). In his research, Dahlstedt studies the deep entanglement of art and advanced technology, particularly in relation to creative and aesthetic implications. He develops new technologies for improvisation, composition and art, and is especially interested in advanced algorithms in creative process, in technologies that allow for embodied performance on electronic sounds, and new kinds of interactions, based on a systems view of emergence from human-technology interactions. Through his publications and artistic works, he has contributed both technologies and theories to the field of computational creativity and musical interaction.

Anla Courtis – Metallic Serge I
ALAN COURTIS (aka Anla Courtis, Alna Courtis, etc) was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a founding member of the Reynols, a mythical band that has recorded more than 100 cds and left a huge mark on Noise music. He has been working in the field of sound-art, electro-acoustic music, drone, noise, improvisation and composition. 
This work was recorded on March 5th 2014 at Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm, Sweden playing their Serge modular synthesizer, metallic object and contact microphone.

Batchas – Chrysalide
Batchas started to play electronics and experimental, industrial music in 1983 using analog machines. The way our world vibrates always fascinated him and today he enjoys very much every ephemeral moment spent improvising on his modular systems.

Frank Bretschneider – Echolette
Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist based in berlin. 
He founded the tape-label KlangFarBe in the mid-80s and later co-founded the Raster-Noton label. Most of his early solo albums – about half a dozen – were under the alias Komet. He has released his work on Raster-Noton, 12k, Line, Mille Plateaux or Shitkatapult, and contributed to some historical compilations like « clicks & cuts » and the « 20′ to 2000 » series. 

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