Devils Leap

New Benge album:

Fields

Here is a new Benge album. See the bumf for all the details. Its all Moog!!!



Below is a picture of me and some Moogs, and below that a diagram of my Moog system with labels, just because theres not one online like that anywhere as far as I could find..

Five Against Four

OK one last list for 2017 - this time one of my album FORMS 6, WORKS ON PAPER made no.11 out of 40 over on Five against Four. WOO! (Read the review below)

Works On Paper

Here is a new Benge album, part six of the Forms series of "one-synth" albums

This time I used an early 1970s Serge Modular system, one of the so called "paper face" models. Please go to the bandcamp page for full informations

Shapes In Space

Here is a new Benge album, part of the Forms series of single-synth records. Like on the first Forms album, I used the Buchla 100 system pictured below. But this time I let the Buchla do a lot more of the composing itself, which is why there isn't any melody or rhythm to be found on it! Its a set of really abstract explorations into the depths of 1960's sonic electronics

Moor Video

Moor Info

Here is some more moor music information:

The music on this album was created on a Yamaha VL1-m. It is an instrument of immense complexity and depth, but like many innovative large-scale instruments it has been long forgotten and superceded by smaller, cheaper, more compromised iterations. VL1 is the first example of a digital sound processor that uses the principles of waveguide technology to produce acoustic instrument simulations. Waveguides are physical bodies that limit waves (sound waves or any other kind of wave) in a special way to produce a desired effect. As soon as digital computers became powerful and affordable enough for the huge amounts of processing required, waveguide principles began to be used in the simulation of real-world instruments. During the late 1980s, Yamaha worked alongside Stanford University in the development of waveguide synthesis, using a combination of digital delay lines and filters to model the properties of acoustic instruments. The result was the release of the instrument in 1994, VL1, and the keyboard-less rack mount version (which I have), VL1-m

VL1 was primarily designed to be played using a breath controller, an electronic device you blow into to control sound settings. However I decided to use a small MIDI keyboard with great physical control output to create my interface with VL1-m. For example, I used the keys to select and trigger the locations and durations of notes, velocity, wheels and after-touch controllers to guide other parameters such as wind or pressure arc, damping, the absorption of certain frequencies, etc

VL1 also includes 3 high quality FX processors, various EQ modules, mixers, dynamic filters, resonators, exciters, and so it goes on. All in all, even though it is not easy to harness all this power by editing via its tiny screen, it was possible to create every element of this album from inside this small black box

Moor Music

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Imaginary TV

This is an imaginary title sequence from an imaginary 1970s TV play that I made just now, to accompany my latest release Forms 3

I shot the footage in Iceland in the summer, and processed it to make it look even more spacey, and it reminded me of EXACTLY the type of program I was thinking of when I made the album

I've put a link to it on the album download page here

Forms Series Three

Here is a new album in the Forms series - just in time for christmas! Every sound on this record was made on the EMS Polysynthi. Hope you like it

FORMS Series Two - Earthmoves

Here is my new album in the Forms series. This time the whole record was made on the Ensoniq EPS. Its a digital workstation made in 1987. This particular synth was GIVEN to me by a Foxxy fan and friend called Steve Lamb - THANKS STEVE!!!! I love this synth - actually when I first started out making music properly in my bedroom my first sampler was an Ensoniq Mirage, and the samples and sounds on this album are all based on the legendary Mirage sound library. The EPS goes a bit beyond the Mirage in terms of layering and creating complex sounds. Its a really fun synth to play on! Once I got in the mood for 80s home-recording I decided to buy an old computer off eBay and make a video for the release - so I present my Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ rubbish video, which I programmed in BASIC







And some screenshots:

Forms - Series One

I am starting a new series of occasional releases over on my bandcamp page. Its going to be a series of full albums based around one synthesiser / electronic system per album. A bit like Twenty Systems if it were One System, if you see what I mean

The first release is pure Buchla 100, with no other processing, sequencing, effecting or sound sourcing. This is 100% vintage 1960s discrete analog sound recorded direct to disk in 24 bits. You can download uncompressed or mp3 audio, a PDF booklet and a picture of the Buchla system HERE

Hope you like it