Thank you Roel for sharing your useful musical experiments, please
keep sending us.
Guilherme.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roel Steverink [mailto: r.steverink@... ]
Sent: terĂ a-feira, 7 de Setembro de 2004 7:33
To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
Subject: 1 The depth of the A-100

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






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