Fellow Brooklynite and L.I.E.S. affiliate Gunnar Haslam also offers up his "Dekalb Avenue Mix," a deep and tripping modular synth workout ready for late-night play.
"I bought a modular synth and sat in my flat for months".
The first thing I did after Simian broke up was I went and bought a modular synth and sat in my flat for months, figuring out how it worked.
For the Global Modular, the rectangular grid shape of a modular synth will be digitally reimagined in the image of an international map, which users can engage with interactively to make their own collages of geo-specific sounds.
Created in 1970 by Bob Moog, the portable analog synth was a breakthrough for musicians who couldn't afford a room full of modular synth gear, or who wanted to take these instruments on the road.
The film is coming from the same Canadian team behind the 2014 modular synth doc I Dream Of Wires, and they've recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for the project.
It's a similar concept to customising a modular synth, but you can go way, way further down into the workings to manipulate the sound, and I think it would be particularly useful for sound-designers and soundscape artists.
Ball points out that you have to work hard to get any noise at all out of a modular synth.
Which would all be challenging enough, one imagines, did Jerome not have to wear a Native American-style tribal mask – a costume contrivance which, for all its advantages of anonymity and vague mystique, must surely be a right pain when you're trying to find the correct knob on your modular synth in the dark.
Currently using a modular synth and laptop, SICKNESS current sets are a punctuated silences filled with cut up sounds, bursts of noise, and crackle.
