To see if I could find live-patching analog synth performers, I decided to
Google "buchla live patching" and found the Buchla Boys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5o9qSY70Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mt6MTPKpDw
Anybody know them?
-Amy
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Amy Alexander <amy_at_plagiarist.org> wrote:
> This is a good question!.... With analog video synths generally the patch
> was completely built before performing (or more commonly recording.) Though
> I also had the experience of instructors patching live in class demos,
> probably most people would have felt awkward doing so on stage.
> They wouldn't be able to test the patch, and it would probably look like
> they didn't finish their setup before the doors opened! Live video synth
> performances were a rare thing, though. Not sure if audio synth performers
> did it; there were a lot more analog synth performers and performances in
> the audio realm, so this is the real question.
>
> It's hard to imagine a musician building an analog synth patch entirely
> from scratch on stage though, except in the context of avant-garde music.
> *Pictures Cage-like score for analog synth patch: "Roll a dice, then patch
> to the inlet on the second module that matches the number on the dice...*
> This case assumes that in order for something to be live coding it should
> be more or less built from scratch in performance, not just an edit of
> pre-built code (be it code, physical patch cords, or Max/PD patch cords.)
>
> Stream of consciously yours,
> -Amy
>
>
>
>> However, I suspect that Thor's question was really about performativity.
>> My lab demonstrators used to do "performances" on the analog computers. How
>> often did analog synth users plug in new patch cords on stage?
>>
>> Alan
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