Modulisme is celebrating 3 years of existence thru special compilations named 3 Year Itch Birthday Session.
Suzanne Ciani - Paris Awaits
« From time to time I experiment with expanding the vocabulary of my performance technique. This is a recording that I made experimentally in my studio. » Suzanne Ciani is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Masters in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley. Pioneer of the Buchla World she worked alongside Don Buchla back in the early days and since then her work has been featured in countless commercials, video games, and feature films.

Lau Nau - Decapoda
Laura Naukkarinen is a Finnish composer and performer who works with analogue synthesizers, acoustic sounds, voice and field recordings. Her compositions comprise a range of solo albums, multi channel sound installations and scores for films and performing arts. Decapoda was recorded in 2018 at EMS in Stockholm with the Buchla 200. It's part of a larger collection of compositions that are inspired by the variation of the plankton biomass in the Baltic Sea depending, for example, on the entering saline pulses from the North Sea, the oxygen levels and the temperature of the water. The rest of these recordings will be released on the upcoming Lau Nau album "5 x 4" in the first half of 2023.

The Sonny Downs Quartet - Dawn Breakfast
The Sonny Downs Quartet writes microtonal music for Buchla modular synthesizer. The quartet is guided by luminaries that have come before such as Raymond Scott, Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley, who showed us that electronic explorations can be infused with a sense of wonder and humour.

Rafael Timoner - Buch-La-La-Loop
Since 1985 Rafael Timoner has been showing his works regularly in solo and group exhibitions in different cities, also participating in numerous International Art Fairs around the world. He has different sculptures in public spaces, and his art works are shown in numerous public and private collections in Spain, Europe and the U.S. The concepts of “space and time” have been the main source of inspiration throughout his career, having spent years to study anything related to it. When it comes to painting or sculpture these concepts can only be depicted visually, whereas with video (in motion) and sound, space and time acquire a more physical and real presence, becoming the center of the action.

Philippe Petit - Strange Tingling Sensations... Percepto ?
An hommage to The Tingler by William Castle, who in his time was the king of the gimmick, and the movie remains most well known for a gimmick called "Percepto!" : a vibrating device, in some of the theater chairs, which the onscreen action activated. I am hoping to provoke strange tingling sensations in you.

Cray - 4 Mari
« 4Mari » was recorded with various synthesizers. Ross Healy has been heavily involved with electronic music since the mid 90’s. Releasing recordings for labels in Australia, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland and the U.S under many different names (This Digital Ocean, Amnesia,Siko Spunji, Roland Oberheim, Ryou Oonishi, 56k, Oskar T Oram and Cray) covering many styles of electronic music. Ross is also the founding member of VICMOD, co-owner of VICMOD Records and a member of the VICMOD Ensemble.

Kevin Rix - Color Out Of Space
Kevin Rix studied orchestral composition and decided to move to Los Angeles to become a full-time composer of Library music. Over the summer he was obsessed with cosmic horror sci-fi movies like The Thing, Color Out of Space, Annihilation, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He used them as inspiration to capture the complex emotions of what it might feel like to witness a more evolved alien species envelope all life on earth.

Palle Dahlstedt - Iron Gait
Palle Dahlstedt is an artist, composer, improviser and researcher from Stockholm,who has studied piano, composition and electronic music, and has a PhD in evolutionary computation for artistic creativity. This piece is part of a series of recordings made in my mountain cabin in Swedish Lapland (65°N) during the late autumn days of 2021. There, in my great grandfather's fishing hut, with no electricity nor running water, I cook over open fire and get water from a small creek. For my modular, here a three-frame Bugbrand system, I rely on a small solar cell and a car battery, and record to a portable 4-track recorder. During a hike with my son along the wild river rapids, in a place nowadays rarely visited by people, we found the remains of old log driving appliances - decaying timber and rusty iron bolts and rebars used to keep the logs in the rapids. With these, I recorded a set of sounds. The samples drive the piece and the synthesis in a feedback system, where impulses within the sounds make it move forward.

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Early ElectroMIX is a series documenting the history of experimental electronic music from the 1950s to the 1980s. Featuring composers making use of electronic instruments, test equipment, generators of synthetic signals and sounds, to analog synthesizers, including Delia Derbyshire (The BBC Radiophonic Workshop ), Ilhan Mimaroglu, Alvin Lucier, Brian Eno, Tod Dockstader, Louis and Bebe Barron, Pierre Henry, Kraftwerk, Daphné Oram, György Ligeti, John Cage, David Tudor, Bernard Herrmann, Morton Subotnick, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Max Mathews, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Priscilla Mc Lean, Hugh Le Caine, Iannis Xenakis, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, Pril Smiley, Milton Babbitt, Toru Takemitsu, Denis Smalley, Annea Lockwood, Ruth Anderson, Makoto Moroi, Guy Reibel, Joel Chadabe, and countless other luminaries.

"While our sessions document those who make the music today my desire is to transmit some pioneering works which paved the way to what we try to create. Realizing that most of those seminal recordings were not available I decided to archive them in a contemporary way, DJing-mixing them and while most of the time running several sources together or in medleys I made sure to respect the original intent of each composer as I want to transmit their message rather than mine. The only one I would dare deliver being that they should not be forgotten… " — Philippe Petit 

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A journalist for various magazines and radio DJ since 1983, as well as a musical activist, [Philippe Petit](www.philippepetit.info) has celebrated more than 35 years of sharing and transmitting his musical passions. Since the early 2000s Petit has served as a « musical travel agent and has been performing the world. Feeling lucky to release on several international labels such as Aagoo, Southern UK, Monotype, Bölt, Alrealon Musique, Beta Lactam Ring, Sub Rosa, HomeNormal, Important, Public Eyesore, Utech, and Staubgold.

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