olan! - experimental modular improvisation #1

me and my modular system interacting without fixed metre or tonality.
/ olangalactica
olan.fm

[@ronaldc8634]

This is fucking amazing, gonna listen to the whole series :)

[@planetplex]

Wow!!

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

This is the type of music that I dream of making but I in no way can afford the entry fee to get into the modular synth club. It's sad that the entry into music, especially music using hardware, is so damn expensive. You simply can't use a computer to truly duplicate stuff like this. If you want to do anything experimental like this, you are going to need to shovel out a lot of cash. Most equipment isn't made to do this stuff.

[@OLANGALACTICA]

BlackburnBigdragon just start building your own stuff. thats how i started. as a musician i never have money. so i started building the modules myself and used the money from fees from shows to buy only what i absolutely needed. i can‘t afford to have a family, eat in a restaurant or live alone because of my music.

[@OLANGALACTICA]

also, modular synths are just one way. there's a big community around modding old cheapo keyboards for example. just start somewhere. it took me years to accumulate this much gear. and it's just tools to channel your creativity, nothing more. if you have some money, spend it on gear and not on clothes. if you need something ASAP, sell something else you don't use that much. if you don't have money, try to build something yourself... i tell ya. there's so much stuff i'd buy if i had the money, but I don't. So i'm working with gear on the lower price range that still does its job.

[@OLANGALACTICA]

also: would you dare to make that comment on a video with someone who plays experimental music on the bass clarinet? a bass clarinet costs way more than my synths and musicians struggle to pay it back. p.s. sorry if i got a bit too confrontational/emotional on the first post. it's edited out by now.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I'm sorry if I gave you that reaction. It wasn't my intent. Please don't take anything personal by it. I apologize if it seemed that way. What I was talking about is simply "entry into music in general" for people. I also started out building my own stuff. My first recordings were done back in the 80's with multiple tape recorders where I was essentially doing loops and remixing, except I didn't do it with a mixer. I was doing it with a stereo, three tape recorders, a sony walkman, two stereo speakers, with pillows stuffed in them, a chord organ scavanged from a garage sale, and a cheap Casio keyboard. I actually used to manage to cut rythms together from tapes by painstakingly finding a rythm on a CD or tape I liked, whether it be a sound effect record, or industrial music album. I would play the tape, record maybe a half a second, hit pause, play that section again for half a second, record, hit pause, make an entire rythm tape like that. Then I would make an entire other tape that was all just... random sounds to play along with the rythm track. And I got GOOD at this. It was like I had figured out how to do a drum machine without having to buy a drum machine, but it took HOURS to make my tapes. I still have those tapes. By today's standards, the audio quality is crap. I didn't have a mixer. I just used a single tape recorder for recording. But that's how I started. Then I discovered the beauty of Mod Trackers when I got my PC in the early 90's! A whole new world happened to me then. THEN I got my synths.

[@anrinoir2120]

Just download VCV Rack man.

[@modxsqr7814]

Mire