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Modulisme: Bartolomeo Sailer, Wang Inc.

Apr 22, 2024: 2pm - 3pm
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Modulisme 42: Bartolomeo Sailer, Wang Inc.

Modulisme 42: Bartolomeo Sailer, Wang Inc.. Image by Modulisme. (Apr 17, 2024)

Produced by Philippe Petit for his Modulisme platform supporting Modular Synthesis.

Bartolomeo Sailer started to make music at the beginning of the 90s after he had developed his musical taste by animating a radio show airing early Acid music, Industrial, (post)Punk, and Avant-Garde. By then, he was using an Amiga 2000 with a tracker software and a DIY 8 bit sound card, just sampling cutting and pasting + eventually sequencing. Later on, he added a Yamaha CS-5 and started to develop a personal style, while DJing at a mythical underground club in Bologna called LINK. His idea was to use concrete sounds to produce Techno. Ever since the music has managed to bring some rhythmic playfulness to a good dose of experimentations. Pleasure for body and mind!

Bartolomeo Sailer writes:
In 1999 my first record as Wang Inc. appeared on Sonig/Thrill Jockey and it was called “Plastic/Metal,” a title I had chosen because of the sounds I used. Then the second album on BiP-HOp, “Risotto in 4/4,” came out, and a few years later another album on Context.fm and a few singles on Persistence Bit. At this point it’s 2010; I’m married, have a child, and must feed the family, so I embarked into 5 dark years of music for jingles. Divorce took place, life got fucked up. I sold my CS-5 to buy a Doepfer Dark Energy mark 1, my first semi modular synth. The projects called Walking Mountains (a sort of computer programmed post rock) and White Raven (romantic techno) appears and disappeared. I started my own label with friend Carlo Mameli called Random Numbers and Wang Inc. came back with a new 12” called “Mediterraneo.”

Full show notes can be found at https://modular-station.com/modulisme/session/42/.

Modulisme is a platform that aims to support original composing, for analog modular systems but not only… A radio program airing music made using modular systems… Each program lasts one hour and is especially dedicated to one composer and featuring some exclusive music made for us.
https://modular-station.com/modulisme/sessions/

Furthermore, Modulisme also produces Early ElectroMIX shows to document the history of experimental Electronic music from the 50s to the 80s…
https://modular-station.com/modulisme/early-electromix/