J Smolders
I know Richard primarily as a great improviser of very complex sonic systems. These works are wonderfully organized and will be on my playlist more than once in the next few weeks.
Noosa Sound System
New territory for me and all the better for it! These are intriguing sonic worlds that never seem to remain the same - somehow different each time you listen.
It’s also amazing material with which to shake up an ambient mix session - Magic :)
Favorite track: Thunder, actually bicycles....
arbitrary presents Delirious Cartographies (arbitrary13) by composer, improviser and synthesist Richard Scott. Part of the Danish imprint’s Framework editions, this release includes three pieces on 12” vinyl and 6 printed drawings – as well as a text by Scott – published as a limited edition portfolio folder.
“These compositions capture aspects of my personal sonic experience of specific times and places. Extending beyond my usual work with analogue synthesizer, these pieces open the doors and windows to the outside world, incorporating field and live recordings made in various locations and situations. Rather than intending any clear sense of narrative, these are molecular dialogues between elements and geographies which do not necessarily share organic points of connection, other than my own incomplete experience and memory of them.”
The final piece “6 Graphic Etudes” (included as digital prints) is intended as a set of visual / sonic sketches, each of which describes a discrete kind of movement or texture. These may have a variety of uses; as musical exercises, as scores, combined as parts of scores, or simply as stand-alone visual propositions / artworks.
The pieces were composed between 2017 and 2021 at Sound Anatomy, Berlin, Spektrum Berlin, EMS Stockholm, NOVARS, University of Manchester, the Electronic Music Studios, University of Huddersfield and in Boliqueime, Portugal.
As well as various microphones, hydrophones and recorders, the instruments used on this recording are mostly analogue and modular synthesisers: Hordijk Modular, Serge Modular, EMS Synthi A, various Eurorack modules, Buchla Thunder midi controller, Oberheim Xpander, Clavia Nord Micro Modular, CataRT and maxMSP, Rob Hordijk Blippoo box. On “Thunder, actually bicycles...” Axel Dörner plays a Holton Firebird trumpet with additional live-sampling via maxMSP and a controller interface developed by Sukandar Kartadinata.
credits
released September 2, 2022
arbitrary13
Written & produced by Richard Scott
Drawings by Richard Scott
Graphic design by Mads Emil Nielsen
Mastered & cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin
Thanks to Axel Dörner, Rob Hordijk, Beatriz Ferreyra, Ricardo Climent, David Berezan, Joseph Hyde, Richard Whalley, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Tim Scott, Andy Adkins, Electric Spring Festival, Sines & Squares Festival, Basic Electricity and Sound Anatomy.
12” vinyl (white, 45 rpm), incl. download code
Limited to 300 copies, prints on 275g Gmund paper, red cardboard folder, foil embossed cover
R. Scott is a composer and performer of electronic and improvised music. For much of the last decade he has been dedicated
to the compositional and performance possibilities of analogue modular synthesizers. He also works with a variety of digital technologies such as Ambisonics, multichannel diffusion and with instruments such as the Buchla Lightning and Thunder and his self-designed WiGi system....more
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Completely amazing, singular work of art from a modern master of the Serge system. In a time when modular has become shorthand for self-generating prog patches Perceptual Geography presents a diorama of voltages - land, sea and time all narrated by the crackling of electricity. killtime
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Hearing your music live was a life-changing experience. I still have goosebumps everytime I think about it... thank you so much for doing what you do Thomas, I'm looking forward to seeing you play again in the future. pemdas
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