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Re: [Doepfer_a100] The depth of the A-100

2004-09-08 by Bakis Sirros

:-)
bakis.





--- Roel Steverink <r.steverink@wanadoo.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Since I'm working with the A-100, I believe now 4
> years
> back, I have learned quite a lot.
> I'm getting more the hang of it.
> I've read and studied Allen Strange's book
> now 6 six times and now it all makes much more
> sense to me than previous reads.
> You know, I don't have that technical insight a lot
> here
> have so, it costs me much more time to understand
> things.
> So I'm a slow learner, but a learner!
> 
> I always had a fondness for experimental
> soundscapes.
> So far my musical efforts were still more in the
> direction
> of melodies, although they already had that
> melancholic edge which
> I like.
> Then I read in the Strange book that white noise
> contains
> numerous other sounds. As Klaus Schulze also pointed
> out in
> one interview. So far all my efforts in that
> direction
> were hopeless. When I filtered white Noise, again
> and again the result
> was all sorts of white noise, but nothing else!
> Till friday evening!!
> 
> I decided to plug some white noise into the S&H
> generator and
> that was the start of some amazing soundscapes. At
> last my
> patch was made up out of 8 modules. And when I send
> everything through
> a long delay it all came to live.
> What you hear is a real soundscape with layers which
> come and
> go in waves, but everything o so subtle. It's just
> keeps me
> mesmerizing; in fact I can listen to it for hours,
> so beautiful
> I find it. This is my basis for a whole wave of
> experiments
> and this will result in a long composition, at which
> I turn
> knobs and plug/pull patchcords to change everything
> slowly.
> But I will play on other synths as well, but all
> sound will
> be heavely effected.
> 
> To me this what I always dreamt off, to create such
> complex
> and emotional soundscapes, now I can! I finally
> opened a door
> and step into a new world.
> I can't wait to experiment with my A-127 which has
> tremendous
> sound possibilities so I noticed already.
> O before I forget, I was in fact inspired by the
> Source of uncertainty
> from Buchla. I now know that this complex soundscape
> which I made
> only the basis forms for much more exciting
> experiments with that kind
> of module. So you can quess that the future Doepfer
> modules I will buy
> will be Source of uncertainty module serie,
> Frequency Shifter and Waveform
> multiplier,
> beside more bread and butter stuff.
> 
> 
> To this breakthrough proves the enormous depth one
> can evoke with this
> system!!!
> So, yes I'm happy a A-100 user! (And I can look at
> the buchla 200 picture in
> my pc
> anytime I like).
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Roel
> 
> 
> 


=====
Bakis Siros
Parallel Worlds / Polariton
Athens-Greece
[Doepfer_a100] group owner
http://www.shimarecords.co.uk
http://www.ward12.com


		
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