Modfest 5: Modular Synth Festival 2024
Live modular synth artist performances from 7pm:
aBraille – Andrew Taylor/aBraille is a musician focused on modular performance, shepherding generative and played behaviours with various systems and instruments. He has had a long and varied background as a multi instrumentalist writing and performing music, combining experimental and techno/electro electronica concepts.
Gotal Bournier (Tahiti) – Gotal Bournier is a French electronic musician from the band Lo-shi, living between Tahiti and Tokyo.
His current solo project is a playful and wryly nostalgic live soundtrack to a video collage of Cold War Era science fiction films using the spectral, alien tones of twin modular synthesisers.
Peter Hobbs w/Misako (Japan) – Peter is known for his emotive sonic textures and enjoys exploring the evocative nature of sound and the emotive sounds of nature in his collaborative art experiences. He is performing here with:
Misako – After studying classical ballet at an early age, Tokyo-born dancer Misako Kikuchi went on to explore other dance styles such as modern ballet, contemporary dance, street dance or flamenco, while refining her own improvisational approach. Following her inclination towards variegated, often experimental forms of music, she developed a very personal style that eludes any easy categorisation.
Modal Komodo – Clae Baxter is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer whose musical practice cuts across many genres and disciplines, including improvised experimental electronic music on his eurorack modular synthesiser. A purveyor of luscious soundscapes, Modal Komodo explores multi layered generative harmonies, textural modulations and organic, improvised compositional forms that wax and wane in intensity. Enjoy his one-off performance, created specifically for this event.
Modern Chair – ‘O Mother, Thou art the Operator and I am the machine. Thou art the Indweller and I am the house. Thou art the Driver and I am the carriage. I move as Thou movest me. I do as Thou makest me do. I speak as Thou makest me speak. Not I, not I, but Thou, but Thou.’
SHALOM BK – Television skies rain black and white while SHALOM BK convinces your brain stem to place dark music in your god-shaped hole. Fragmenting your higher thoughts to make room for your own death cult experience. Chant his name in binaries to enter the divine drone.
Modfest explores the creative possibilities of the modern modular synthesizer, which is undergoing a resurgence in popularity across the globe. The open patchable format of modular allows for unending possibilities of creativity without the predictability of pre-set sounds created on screens
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