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Music from the SYNTHI

by Yoshio Machida

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SYNTHI n°23 03:24
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SYNTHI n°29 03:52
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SYNTHI n°17 03:06
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SYNTHI n°01 02:03
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SYNTHI n°16 02:29
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SYNTHI n°02 03:22
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SYNTHI n°26 03:22
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SYNTHI n°07 03:18
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SYNTHI n°25 03:33
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SYNTHI n°04 03:26
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SYNTHI n°14 03:28
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SYNTHI n°19 02:07
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SYNTHI n°30 06:43

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The SYNTHI AKS is a legendary machine. Manufactured by Electronic Music Studios in 1971, this portable modular synthesizer was extremely flexible. Not a keyboard synth like what Moog was doing at the time, this was a generative music machine with a matrix patch panel. Think Max/MSP in analog terms. Except that being analog, it wasn't entirely stable and, thus, had an organic quality that is still valued today.

Music from the SYNTHI is a new endeavour for Yoshio Machida, a consistently surprising sound and visual artist who, among other feats, has released an acclaimed series of sound collage albums (Hypernatural), albums of improvisations on steelpan drums, and records with the bands miimo and Ohanami. This new solo album arrives almost four years after his previous one The Spirit of Beauty (a slow-evolving piece combining instruments, field recordings and electronics), and six years after his Baskaru debut Hypernatural #3.

Music from the SYNTHI consists in 13 pieces. Most of them are quirky and playful. "SYNTHI n° 30" has a longing quality you would never expect from a synthesizer. And all of them are 100% SYNTHI. "I simply recorded the repeating patterns and mixed 3 to 5 patterns per piece, without any editing or effects," explains Machida. I wanted to record rich obscure improvisations as performed by the SYNTHI. Every modulation, reverb, effect like delay, and glitch sound is produced inside the SYNTHI."

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released February 1, 2014

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Baskaru is a French record label dealing with experimental electronic music and sound art.

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