EuroSerge - In Action

The EuroSerge In Action

Here we see Doug Lynner playing with his EuroSerge at uHausen 2018, a yearly gathering of electronic noise artists at Camp Happy deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Software and hardware synthesizers, including custom and DIY designs abound in this wild afternoon of experimental sound.

Extract from uHausen 2018 [Episode 83] by CATSYNTH.TV

¡Voltage and Verse!
at Adobe Books, 2018

Ruth Weiss in her continuing collaboration Doug Lynner. Together with log percussionist Hal Davis, they performed a set of poetry and music that simultaneously evoked earlier eras and the latest electronic experiments. Davis’ log drum provided an expressive metronome, undulating between a trot and a gallop. Lynner’s synthesizer lines filled in the spaces, sometimes with rhythmic appeggios and at other moments with long eerie drones. The synthesizer timbres and phrases complemented the words in multiple ways, sometimes underpinning the narrative in the manner of a good film score, at other times emphasizing the rhythm of the words and making them into a musical whole.

Extract from Voltage and Verse [Episode 51] by CATSYNTH.TV

Modular synthesizer supergroup (Peter Grenader, Doug Lynner, Shiro Fujioka) performing in Berkeley, CA. Check out Doug's setup of classic and modern Serge synths (left side), Shiro's mix of modern Eurorack (with a lot of Wiard modules), and Peter's massive Plan B system (designed by Peter, including some modules which are one-off creations) mixed with modern Eurorack.

Video from Fourdimensionalsound

Up from Down - Electronic Feedback Explorations

1.	Mercury Circle 07:07
2.	Venus Loop 06:08
3.	Earth Orbit 06:55
4.	Mars Revolution 05:50
5.	Jupiter Circuit 05:16
6.	Saturn Cycle 05:17
7.	Uranus Rotation 05:23
8.	Neptune Pattern 04:08
9.	Pluto Circumgyration 05:07

About
I was asked to compose/perform a modular synthesizer piece for a 50th-year celebration of the film 2001 a Space Oddessy to take place in Santa Cruz CA. It was a sound representation of astronaut Dave Bowman piloting a shuttle through the Stargate to Jupiter. It was done by controlling feedback through an analog modular synthesizer. It is intended to evoke the nearly out of control energy involved in space flight. These are nine related feedback explorations developed in preparation.

Credits
Released August 11, 2018
Composed/performed by Doug Lynner
Recorded live in-studio
Instruments: Elby Designs' EuroSerge

Digital album available through Bandcamp

Doug Lynner playing Mountain Arabesque at uHausen 2016 performed live on Serge Modular Synthesizer, Elby EuroSerge Modular Synthesizer and Cynthia Modular Synthesizer.

Video from Doug Lynner

Custom piece written by Doug Lynner for the EuroSerge.

Rohan Mackinnon records his first video with his DIY EuroSerge.

Watch your ears there's a little clipping here and there.

Video from Rohan Mackinnon

Quote: "Performing every week live on the radio has its own unique demands. I want my 'sound' but I only have a small space on the mixing desk in the control room for an instrument. It leaves no room form the Mystery Serge. It is a great application for my ELBY EuroSerge. In fact, my radio show performances are always done only on the EuroSerge"

Bloop and Quack bring a musical experience designed to adjust all the best setting on your radio. Knobs, wires and silicon working in conjunction with the human id. Listen for ensemble playing and guest performances from a variety of musical backgrounds.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/bloopandquack

Modulisme (translates Modularism) is a media supporting leftfield Modular Synthesis. Providing ressources/interviews, a radio program aired via 7 antennas, and above all label-like streaming music for you to listen to…

Readers are urged to visit the MODULISME site to experience the extensive sonic capabilities of the Serge Modular System, the 3U EuroSerge as well as Buchla, ARP, Moog and many others.

Imagine experimental music deeply emotional and sonically satisfying.

Imagine the dusk turning to night with these sounds echoing over the mounds of ancient tailings, the holes in the earth that once yielded a wealth of copper, and the whispered stories of those who dug them.

This is what I sent on the breeze into the Swedish night and dedicated to my friend and fellow musical explorer, Will Jackson, who exited this earth on a breeze that night too.

THE MYSTERIOUS TRANSITION

To celebrate the third anniversary of the Modulisme platform initiated by Philippe Petit in September 2019 a number of artists contributed to this birthday include this piece by Doug Lynner

Occasion 3 is performed on the ELBY Serge variant.

The module complement and patch used in the performance are pictured here.

The piece explores the contrasts that are implicit in certain outcomes of feedback patching. Moving motifs are punctuated by solid structures. Both expressions of the acoustic imperatives of feedback.

https://modulisme.info/session/7

NoiseBug in California, USA carry a range of EuroSerge modules and put together this 1973 EuroSerge System to showcase the EuroSerge potential in the 3U world.

1973 EuroSerge System

NoiseBug in California, USA carry a range of EuroSerge modules and put together this EuroSerge System to further showcase the EuroSerge potential in the 3U world.

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