Acousmatic Gestures

[@lichisancheleganta9046]

Hey Walker, I deeply want to thank you for this excellent Wednesday episode series. It's complex and personal, has its basis on profound awareness of music history but leads into curiosity filled presence and is hugely inspiring. I always find myself stimulated to explore my modules further and often you just opened a new angle to look at them. Thanks a lot!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks so much for this appreciation. I'm very happy to hear you are getting a lot out of the videos! It's an honor to be able to do it. :D -W

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

From 7:00 onwards, we're really in François Bayle's territory, reminding me of his 'Hommage à Robur' in the 'Espaces inhabitables' (Unlivable Spaces) series.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

That's the highest praise I could ask for! I was thinking of "Erosphere" and "Tremblement de terre très doux" - but I made sure not to listen to them beforehand!

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC I had the pleasure (and intense pride) of participating in a debate with François Bayle and Bernard Parmegiani about sci fi, electronic music and musique concrète during two sci fi conventions I had been invited to play in 77 and 79. Huge and dear memories.

[@nophonecamera]

This episode was wonderful. Very inspiring.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it :)

[@redwoodword]

Cool techniques, awesome sounds!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks!!

[@michaelmmccullough2533]

The approach to modular is just as important as the modular.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Oh we definitely agree. :)

[@GeorgeLocke]

My philosophy is that if I spend enough money, I will automatically become Richard Devine

[@vwvwvwvvw6143]

the best sounding demo on this channel yet

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Alright, I'll see if I can top it! ;)

[@SallowKyn]

These videos are wonderful. Engaging, intelligent, inspiring. Thank you.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

So glad to hear you enjoy them!!

[@brushsuka]

Endless sound shaping . With this set-up .

[@heety9]

This is super cool. I’ve been thinking about music in terms of gestures and movements for a while and this opened my eyes to the history behind it, as well as its ease of creation in modular! Can’t wait to try this out with my Morphagene and Tetrapad tonight

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Awesome! Happy patching :)

[@JureJerebic]

This is an excellent one. More of such for Morphagene, please!

[@UncleDuncan]

As much KZbin content as there is, there are very few as consistently educational, aesthetically engaging, and just plain fun as MakeNoise videos. Thanks so much for your continued education and helping me push my own limits. As an aside: I would love to see more in the Strange series. Really would love to see examples and playing around with so much of the book, but would also love to see a more thoroughgoing modular-focussed music education. Not sure if that's something you guys would be into or at least interested in contributing to. Obviously you are already providing a good amount of it (albeit focussed on your gear), but I mean more of a build on basic concepts into advanced concepts, focus on composition, performance, history, and study of existing works with sharing and commentary on pieces students create. Really like a modular sound design, composition and improv school. I know re: Learning Modular but would like to see all of it taken to the next level. Maybe it'll be my calling to organize such a thing. In any case, love what you guys create and the content you produce. Many thanks!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

So glad you like the videos! We are always thinking about how to expand our educational platforms.

[@brndnwilliams42069]

This one was especially awesome. Thanks!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Glad to hear it!

[@nicolasconstantinromanacci]

brilliant & beautiful. thx from the heart for ongoing inspiration and good vibes!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@MartinDoudoroffLLC]

Excellent. I think you may have just sold at least one more Tape & Microsound Music Machine, too.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

[@ralph119988002]

Make that two

[@jurj4108]

Make it...... 14!!:D

[@Oyasoom]

One day, I'll own a T&MMM; this combo is awesome. #ModularGoals

[@michaelmmccullough2533]

Just brilliant.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Wonderous

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@flukeymcfluke4582]

Like always very informative and fun to watch

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you! Glad to hear you think so :)

[@gastonsounds]

Love this one! Also, referencing Meta Hodos in video description=10,000 points!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Haha, definitely a classic, and not the only classic from Tenney!

[@jurj4108]

Great! Really nice video, thank you a lot Walker. :)

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it :)

[@alexbarn]

So interesting and informative (and love the soundscape)...and thanks for including those resources - am definitely going to research further.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed :)

[@markmccarthy3304]

Great video thank you Walker.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@opsysbug]

Super badass. Great work.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you!

[@bertiebigbass4607]

Awesome thanks for the inspiration

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@enthusiasticElectrons]

I love the context! Thanks

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@daneguitarist1]

i love granular stuff, its so beautiful and so strange i love that stuff

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Me too!

[@daneguitarist1]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC yall are killer! I'm pretty sure yall already made it into my tour rack Altho covid fucked everything When stuff opens up I've got your first whiskey

[@BrunoWiebelt]

extrem vermittle information Thank you very much

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@gordonryan7866]

This is fantastic…this series has really been helpful. I picked up a T&MMM a couple of months ago and have been happily exploring it's myriad of manipulation uses. Added an 8hp nanoRings to (I love me some Karplus-strong) that's been playing very nicely with it. @MAKEN0ISE Any recommendations for a 2hp module that would complement the system well? Don't want to leave that last space hangin!

[@FelipeTellez]

Pure gold

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thank you!

[@FelipeTellez]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC one thing that makenoise, and Walker do particularly well is TEACH the instruments, concepts, and history. Even if you don't own a makenoise product, there is a wealth of knowledge in your demonstrations and discussions. Kudos!!!

[@vokaru64]

You make modular great again (if it hasn´t been already). I need the 0-CTRL as eurorack-module, without soldering. Will this be someday available form MakeNoise?

[@tColorsinspacerecordings]

Genius

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

I don't know if I'd go that far but I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

[@michaellong4134]

Reader-friendly transcript: drive.google.com/file/d/18ld0LGduWSOMJJlEMtVKY_Q-koxiT8it/view?usp=sharing (Not affiliated with Make Noise; any and all mistakes are my own)

[@edwardnixon1782]

I think this is the most useful and rewarding of your vids I've watched. I've come back to this one a number of times and I find the piece, as rudimentary as you may depict it, of very high aesthetic quality. One reason I keep coming back is because of your use of the word 'legible' which gave me pause, particularly when you talk about sonic complexity and the difficulty of notating a composition. For me, it opens up a whole can of worms about the oral versus the literate and so I recommend, if you're not familiar with it, Walter Ong's book from 1982, "Orality and Literacy". (Here is Ong's Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong -- interesting dude.) He was one of a group of scholars who interested themselves in the effects of "media" on our way of seeing and expressing things about the world. Including music? Of course! Others folks? Eric Havelock on Plato versus Homer and the estimable Canadian, Marshall McLuhan on just about everything; he's the only one of them, to my knowledge, who appeared in a movie. Needless to say, The Gesture seems to me enormously useful still, especially when 'layered' with the ideas you summarize elsewhere about time as per Roads' Microsound. Thanks yet again.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Hi, thank you for the reading recommendations! I was just thinking that I may have been overusing the word "legible" to mean a sort of half-synonym of "intelligible"...

[@edwardnixon1782]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC legible, intelligible? Who knows! There has to be a word for something that the listener can connect to, remember, recall and recognize in related forms as the composition progresses. I think people understand but it's always good and often fun to challenge how we express what we think.

[@edwardnixon1782]

Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this: since I currently don't have a Morphogene (yet!), in desperation, I decided to work with some of your reels in Supercollider. Not the same thing obviously, but maybe of interest. Here's the link to a (currently) 3 track play list on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/eenixon/sets/scavenger-series Hope it's not a bother.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

No bother at all - thanks for sharing!! Always love to hear what people are doing with these concepts and sounds, regardless of gear ⚡️

[@zaneaustin22]

Wow

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

That's what I like to hear :D

[@Frimout]

What's this sound you've got loaded in the morphagene? :0

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Here's a link to the Reel. I don't remember how I made it exactly. I have lots of Reels that are just full of sounds I've made while patching, haha. www.makenoisemusic.com/content/manuals/acousmatic-gestures-reel.wav

[@Frimout]

MAKEN0ISE lovely! Thanks a lot 🥳

[@st3g1]

Hello, what model/manufacturer is the case in the background?

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

That is the original Shared System, which was sent to the 5 artist who participated in the Shared System record series many years ago. The case was made by Steve R. at MonoRocket.

[@jmaz1100]

I want one of those t shirts

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

keep on eye on our web store at makenoisemusic.com/adjuncts

[@jmaz1100]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC I hope you offer that shirt soon!

[@hundredsofseabirds8022]

❤️❤️❤️

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheSineAssociation]

Great, but acousmatic music is alive and growing, you should know about that.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Of course! Don't hesitate to comment with artists or labels you are fond of.

[@TheSineAssociation]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC Ok Walker, as I'm a composer and a lover of this music , let's make some propaganda and look for some new Acousmatic Music listeners. This list is not complete , but here, IMHO, some of the greatest composers, the majority of them from a generation after François Bayle, Bernand Parmegiani and Pierre Scheafer : - Jonty Harrison - Annette Vande Gorne - Eric Nystrom - Chantal Dumas - Äke Parmerud - Beatriz Ferreyra - Francis Dhomont - Phillippe Mion - Denis Smalley - Elisabeth Anderson - Andrew Lewis And there many other younger composers, but with no published CDs.

[@eddiegomez4134]

What stand are ya using?

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Do you mean for the Shared System in the background? It's the Blued Steel System Stand: makenoisemusic.com/cases/steel-system-stand

[@eddiegomez4134]

@@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC YES! thanks, mine case is currently on top of a flat box and propped up on a deck of cards 😅

[@dime_dancing]

This is why people buy Make Noise. Or at least it's why I do.

[@zaneaustin22]

Just got a telharmonic, love it. Sounds dark and spooky yet at the same time really bright and lively

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

Happy patching!

[@Frozen_Smoke1972]

Oof! A very contemplative "oof!" but an "oof!" nonetheless.

[@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC]

That's a good oof :)