Emily A. Sprague - Live at Synths in the Catskills ~ Eurorack Ambient

my full set from a wonderful and cool late august night in the catskill mountains.
check out everyone else who performed -
Lightbath - • Holy Fire • Synths in ...
tehn - vimeo.com/2396...
Eternal Function -
Chris Penalosa - • Synths in the Catskills
Sean Julian - • Video

[@tehachapimtnlover]

Hello, I found your work because it was used in a Sail Cargo video about building the galley for the beautiful ship Ceiba, being built in Costa Rica. When completed, it will be the largest sailing cargo vessel in the world. Your music was a nice addition to the video. Thank you

[@damianmorillas7189]

Still a week to go before 2023 ends, but this is hands down the best video I've seen all year!

[@DivKid]

excellent work

[@ComparativeIrrelevance]

Wonderful! I love how seamless the whole set sounds.

[@maryvitiello1934]

Iistening in Rhody as we visit, very lovely.

[@javajini]

I love how you keep everything fluidly moving from one tone to the next. Such a wonderful piece.

[@rochelleedna]

you look like magic, making sounds from another world

[@keenansprague1626]

Emily A Sprague is a true artist! Amazing work

[@jpitrman]

I just keep coming back to this one.

[@RichardLacyMusic]

Beautiful and subtle. Very nice indeed.

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Fantastic, wonderful and most beautiful sounds.

[@JohnMitchellCalif]

really charming, thanks for posting! Subscribed

[@jsogman]

ugh so tremendously beautiful! you are a light of this medium pls keep it coming!!!

[@User173]

ahhh, such a good set. I came here to listen to some of your works, and I noticed all your videos, save two, have been removed? I'm super sad.

[@munkyusm]

I heard your track called “your pond”. When listening to synth music, I never look to see who made it or the name of the track, I just appreciate all the different sounds people are capable of producing. But there was something about your vibration. I immediately had to know who this artist was. You touched me on a different level! MUAH.

[@brianh.000]

Really, this should have many more likes & views.

[@Rbonafont777]

amazing

[@FILML4D4N]

tentative soft beautiful - great show - wish I was there

[@walterantoniomelica6115]

Favoloso!!! Grande Emily!!!

[@andykphoto]

I’m a little slow on finding synths in my proverbial back yard… oh man!

[@losthollow3459]

a lovely bubbly and candles

[@TheUrbanCollectiveWeFilmIt]

Gorgeous!

[@songsfromtinpanalley6742]

Sounds Fantastic... Love your new Florist album as well!

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Berry goot.🙂😎👍👌🎶✨

[@minijackaudio]

just wow. keep it up. awesome. I feel high

[@rmanpojo8485]

Great track . I just finished reading you're part in "Patch and Tweak".

[@phormzlab1743]

Found this via Brian’s channel. So glad I followed his link. This is just beautiful ...subscribed. :)

[@kozmicstreamz]

very lovely ... soothing ... love it :)

[@samcooper302]

Love this! So abstract and unique

[@johnnyleach8716]

your music is fucking great. just listened to water memory. Great material, keep it up

[@jrodohio]

Sounds amazing.

[@JeremySeitz]

Love your textures and compositions

[@jackkramer2498]

Thank you.

[@pantalalabs]

lovely !

[@paulborg9239]

you never disappoint... lovely stuff.

[@emilysprague6983]

thank you : )

[@bugradio]

There was a "Synths In the Catskills" event and I'm JUST hearing about it now?? Will def keep an eye out for that from now on! (also, this is great, thanks!)

[@user-ed5ix1sw6i]

would've loved to be there in person

[@jonaseggen2230]

The color makes it look like its from a film. Sci-fi I guess. Also makes a nice postcard.

[@arlancorreia2144]

this is so cool

[@ShilohJanowick]

We both have the same patching face!

[@demetrymalahoff]

I feel good

[@fantasyproduct1042]

Genius

[@fuckidk5468]

Have you released any of your music online? Would like to support/have stuff to listen to away from the computer.

[@fe_barba]

super curious to see what's inside that case (+ other gear used)

[@user-gr1nv5ur8y]

Ay, good devil-five points on the Soviet, the rating scale!

[@OxKingMusic]

Please take your other videos off private.

[@midilyfestyle]

Damn g

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Synths catskills

[@naturalnature]

why you are not posting anymore?

[@sethmooney7372]

will there be a 2018 edition? would love come

[@JasonTopo]

how can i start making this kind of music? 🎶

[@antikytheramechanism7909]

henri crousteau Set aside $3000 and buy some Mutable Instruments stuff and a case.

[@mightymike1978]

Nice start could be the virtual rack software ( vcvrack.com/ ) but its software only and lacks the whole intuitivity thing of modular synthesis by patching cables into jacks. To get warm with Hardware you should go to your next instrument store and try out the KORG MS20 mini semimodular synthesizer (used ca. 500€) or (to stay in the eurorack-format) the Moog mother32 (used ca. 650€). If one of them inspires you and let you have a lot of fun, buy one of them or both and expand your system module by module. Keep in mind that you need something to record your music and to add effects like reverb or tape delay. If you want to keep it really basic (=no fx just audio recording) you can buy the tascam dr40 recorder, which records in up to 24 Bit/96kHz. But has just 2 line ins but nice quality and is very easy to use. More advanced record solution would be to use a computer (if u have one, really cheap ones are at pollin.de) via an audio interface (behringer u-phoria = cheap but bad lateny or steinberg/yamaha ur22/44 or ur828). 1st Software could be audacity (with no costs cause it's open source) or more advanced to buy something like a music magazine like KEYS special with cubase le 9 (around 15 bucks, eg. www.amazon.de/Cubase-Vollversion-Musikproduktionssoftware-Steinberg-Special/dp/B071WSSS7F )

[@waltersmetak]

No doubt, download VCV Rack - doesn't cost a nickel and you can really dive into modular from this amazing software. Via VCV, you will have a very good idea if you really want to get into modular, which is terribly expensive and very chaotic (yet brilliant!).

[@zygmaszel8376]

Musically Correct 🎹

[@user-gr1nv5ur8y]

Короче-переводчик исказил мой коммент.Зачетно,в общем!!!

[@Kupka2408]

Hey Emily, I am curating a compilation album with music from the modular scene on KZbin for the Leipzig based independend label 'Pattern//Select'. The album will be released on cassette tape around april 2018 and will be totally non-profit - all the sales will just be used to cover the costs of the production. We wanted to make more people aware of the great music that is created every day by all those creative and talented people here on KZbin and give something back to this lovely scene. If you are interested in being part of the tape please tell me, I will put my e-mail adress into the comments so we can get in contact for further information about the project. So far, artists like Comparative Irrelevance, Atreyu's Horse, Kupka or Nick Jackson will be on the album. Greetings from Leipzig, Leon

[@nodfactor8808]

Awesome as always, Emily! I'm curious, what's generating the crackling record noise at the end?

[@brownshoesonly]

er-301?

[@Scrambled6653]

(i hear the crackling almost through the whole set) yes maybe some kind of sampler

[@nodfactor8808]

Same, after a closer listen...

[@nodfactor8808]

=( 301's are so expensive!

[@brownshoesonly]

R beny made a custom unit for the 301 meant to emulate vinyl crackle. not a traditional sample. but im not sure that's what is going on here.

[@hiroshiebina9703]

Hi, are you based in NY? Any means to get info on your upcoming shows?

[@emilysprague6983]

hi! I am sort of based in NY, but floating a lot right now. don't currently have any modular shows booked because my more folky songwriting project, florist, is pretty active right now. I am working on getting my modular stuff in a more central place where music can be downloaded and shows will be happening! if anything happens, I will announce it here on youtube or on my instagram @mlesprg : )

[@hiroshiebina9703]

thanks! just followed you on instagram! great modular stuff! looking forward to catching up somewhere in the city. I was just talking with bryan (aka lightbath)

[@hiroshiebina9703]

thank you!

[@genepozniak]

Emily, I loved this for the most part except for the artificial record scratching. I don't know why this has become a fad among mod synth artists lately, but to me it's just random unpleasant *entropy* flaking off of the otherwise beautiful life of music. It just reminds me of death. Maybe it's just me, but life is far more interesting than death, and we haven't finished describing all the life in music yet. :-) (Also, still waiting for that Krell patch. ;-) )

[@stevenrempel]

one cannot have life, without death :) . death sustains your life, death ends all cycles of life to begin life anew. I like it personally, as it sounds to me more like a modulated noise source, which is sound emanated from random circuit noise, which I find interesting to hear a direct voltage sound source as SPL. To each, their own :)

[@genepozniak]

stevenrempel: Fair enough. But I stand by my metaphor. :-)

[@SharedVision333]

Moar crackles pleeeeaaaaase! More noise!