And he absolutely crushed it! Had the dance floor absolutely jacking for his whole set.
So far from just weird beeps, bloops, and fart noises. This guy had a proper dance set worked out.
Easily the best and most “musical sounding” modular stuff I’d ever heard. Nice to see that it’s possible! Personally I find it hard to ever find any modular videos that I could ever imagine anyone dancing to. But I witnessed it live last Saturday. Wish I could link videos I took but they are too big to include in this post.
Yep that’s the one. Was pretty impressive - even my girlfriend, who isn’t even really a huge electronic music head, was lost in dance for like an hour and a half straight.
Oh modular for sure can be melodic, can do techno great, etc.
Example of more arp heavy ambienty stuff:
It’s just: for that you have to have a clear musical goal, and not just random patching/doodling.
And that’s where most modular stuff breaks down, I feel like many modular people have more fun in patching and tinkering then conducting their system.
Oh wow that video is cool, thanks. Yeah I’m sure it’s just my own ignorance in the world of modular that makes me doubt it. Also, I am much more into house than techno so for me, I often find techno itself to be too repetitive at the best of times, and with modular I find it can be even more so, generally.
I get that repetition is totally part of the sauce for hypnotic electronic music, but once we hit like 5 minutes of seemingly the same 16 step pattern I tend to check out haha
I’ve even seem house, but then mostly in combination with samplers.
I totally get you, and in my youth I could not stand it, now I love it… If it has Enoch evolving and modulating. Then I see it as kind of an organism.
But with sequencers modular doesn’t have to be that repeating. Again: I do think that most modular is bleep bloops or same sequences with modulation, but thats part of the “to many options” problem. There is no pre determined path, so getting somewhere is more self involved curation, and evolving that further can take more work then on conventional equipment.
I’ve seen Colleen live once and even if it was just a grandmother (or matriarch?), semi modular: it took awhile between tracks for her to prepare the patch.
So it either needs a ton of planing to do a set that doesn’t fold into the usual tropes, or a second person that can bridge the performance while you patch the next part. Not a problem in digital hardware or daws.
I accidentally caught a short modular set from Chris Carter after a book launch party by Cosey Fanni Tutti. Had no idea he would be there so I was well pleased with that as it was my first time hearing modular live. Great sounds from a little modular suitcase.
