Rain Passing (Live At Galerie Lausberg)

In November 2019 I played my first concert with the songs I wrote for the piano and modular. It was a really nice experience to play the music live and develop the pieces further. When seeing the space I thought immediately that it would be a great location to shoot a video and also to film the whole concert.

The concert took place at "Galerie Lausberg" in Düsseldorf and was part of "Die Digitale" festival. Thanks for Mr. Lausberg, Werner and Peter for inviting me.

Also thanks to Johannes for doing the lighting design and for shooting and editing the video!

Rain Passing is a piece that I wrote for this channel in May of 2019, during rehearsals for the concert I added drums and a base line that weren't in the original performance.

Video by Johannes von Barsewisch

Music by Raffael Seyfried

Filmed at Galerie Lausberg Düsseldorf

Fleeting (Piano and Modular Improvisation)

Trying one without synth voices. This piece is based on the idea of static and fleeting sounds. Changing and staying the same.

The heart of the patch is the 4ms Dual Looping Delay which loops the incoming piano and slowly fades it out at the same time. New notes are louder whilst older notes fade into the background. The output of the DLD is patched into the Make Noise Morphagene which I engage after approximately the first half of the piece. Morphagene takes the already layered and looped sound from the DLD and granulates it. All sounds begin to become very fluid and fleeting… The output of this is then patched into Mutable Instruments Clouds for Reverb and slight additional granulation and pitch shifting.

Building (Piano and Modular Improvisation)

Coming back to the modular on a really hot day. This time connecting a quite minimal piano pad from Morphagene with two sequences on my usual Even VCO and BF22 combo. On this one I just sat down and played without really preparing something. I think it’s a good way to change up your flow a bit, switching between more prepared pieces and just total train of thought improvisation.

Patch notes:

For the synth voice Yarns is generating two sequences for my two Even VCOs. Those are going through the BF-22 into the Hexmix VCA and finally for some delay into the DLD. The piano pad sound is Morphagene going into Clouds. I was thinking about doing something more sophisticated but ended up just putting a bit of reverb on the sound.

The piano is recorded with two Oktava Mk-012s.