Modulisme — 3 Year Itch Birthday Session v. 5
02.20.23

Modulisme is celebrating 3 years of existence thru special compilations named 3 Year Itch Birthday Sessions:
Gabriel Prokofiev – Cultured Robot
Gabriel Prokofiev is composer & producer of electronic & classical music. He is the founder of Nonclassical label & events, and in 2022 Oscillations. Through Nonclassical, he has been one of the leading proponents of presenting classical music in non-traditional venues, & created remixes of classical which are the central focus of his DJ sets.
He cut his musical teeth in the 00s producing electronic music & Grime, before returning to his classical roots with a new urban-influenced vocabulary. He has composed electronic scores for Rambert Dance & Stuttgarter Ballet, His Concerto for Turntables has been performed by over 30 orchestras word-wide.
Philippe Petit – The dust of ELECTRICITY which lives in each one
Prepared Piano + Aluphone + Kalimba + Buchla 200 & 73/75 Serge Synthesizers + Voices
In the depths of the fleeing galaxies
Where the young turbulent nebulae shine
The white dwarfs in infinite expansion
Creep all up at the hair of the Blue Giant
Let us measure the weight, the step, the pulse, the shiver
Of the dust of ELECTRICITY which lives in each one
I have been drawn in without end by the sound of unstable electricity under attempted control. I love those moments where I thought I might actually be getting electrocuted, that is how organic things can sound in beautifully unstable analog synths.
Scanner – Studio Experiment 2
British artist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.
Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings. His work connects the points between a bewilderingly diverse array of genres—a partial list would include sound design, film scores, computer music, digital avant garde, contemporary composition, large-scale multimedia performances, product design, architecture, fashion design, rock music and jazz.
Teitreph!: Verhangenes, Vergangenes
The stylistic spectrum of hamburg-born pianist, organist and synthesist Henning Pertiet ranges from pseudo-classical borrowings to contemporary music, jazz, minimal music, rock and pop, and indian classical music. He says that the compositional […] is not in the foreground, but “released energy, tones, sound surfaces and experimental sounds with and without (compelling) coherence”.
In 2001 he started to deal with free improvisation and came into contact with grooveboxes, synthesizers and other electronic sound generators and modifiers. His main instrument for live improvising on the synthesizer is the buchla 200e, though he also uses eurorack, various moogs and several other synths and sound morphers…
Josue Arias – The Electronic Language of bugs and Gongs
Josue Arias is an eclectic and experimental artist and musician born in Madrid, Spain in 1971.
At an early age he studied solfeggio, piano, and began to create his own sounds using analog synthesizers when he was only 9 years old.
During his adolescence he participated in various music groups and at the beginning of the 90s he formed the Pop-rock group “Terapia Nacional” with which he released 4 albums, toured Spain and Mexico, obtained several top 10 and received various awards such as revelation group, Smash Hits awards and Gold Records.
After the dissolution of the group in the mid-90s, he set up a recording studio for recording and producing his music but also for other artists.
From the end of the 90’s he has focused his musical aspect on the audiovisual, devoting himself to the composition of music for documentaries, advertising and TV series.
At the same time, he works as a sound engineer mixing and mastering music groups and audiovisual projects, also working as a sound designer for TV series and movies.
In 2011 he moved to the forests of Patagonia Argentina, where he currently lives in nature, and from his “Kymátika” studio, built with wood, straw and mud, he explores the most experimental part of music and sound using modular synthesizers, gongs, hangs, bowls… Fusing genres related to ambient, drone, electroacoustic and neoclassical; creating minimalist soundscapes, and collaborating with musicians of all kinds of styles. It also occupies other relative facets such as sound therapy, sound engineering, music production, architecture, natural construction, permaculture and photography.
Richard Youngs – Fearann Anna
Richard Youngs is a British musician with a prolific and diverse output, including many collaborations. Based in Glasgow since the early 1990s, his extensive back catalogue of solo and collaborative work formally begins with Advent, first issued in 1990. He plays many instruments, most commonly choosing the guitar, but he has been known to use a wide variety of other instruments including the shakuhachi, accordion, theremin, dulcimer, a home-made synthesizer (common on early recordings) and even a motorway bridge.
Willy Van Buggenhout – StockKnorr
Willy Van Buggenhout (16/04/1954) studied electronic music in Brussels with André Stordeur (studio synthèse) and Peter Beyls (Luca). He’s been playing EMS Synthi AKS for nearly half a century and been a member of several group-improvisations, working with many fine musicians and orchestras from all over the World !
Chad Mossholder – Spirit box
Chad Mossholder is an award winning Sound Designer and Composer working in Music, Video Games, and Art Installations.
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