MODULISME SESSION #116: ACOUSTRONIQUE

Modulisme Recordings #11, released 2024. Total Time: 120 Minutes. 15 composers, includes my FILZSCHNEE for underwater recordings and Serge synthesizer.

As part of the 5th year anniversary celebration of Modulisme recordings, Phillippe Petit wanted to emphasize the alliance of acoustic and electronic with a collection of works showing that Modulisme isn’t dealing with Modular synthesis only and that what matters is the composition rather than the tools. ACOUSTRONIQUE features music composed of sounds artificially created using the modular instrument, enriched with natural sounds (field recordings/voices) or acoustic material (instruments). Detailed information about the composer and their piueces here: https://modular-station.com/modulisme/session/116/

For Filzschnee I recorded the underwater sounds from a pond in Bloomville, NY with a Terranova Hydrophone, as you can hear there’s a lot going on under the surface. The last couple of months I was working with the Serge synthesizers at NYU’s Integrated Digital Media Program, so I tried to match the noises that I heard from under water, but not too close, so that one still hears the acoustic and the electric.