Modular Synthesizer Monday: An Interpretation of Steve Reich’s Phase #MusicMonday

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Here’s an out of this world interpretation of Steve Reich’s 1967 piece Phase from glkibler:

I’ve shortened the typical 15 minute duration with a version that is about a third as long by speeding up the phase a bit. The 5U modulars I’m using here are two prototypes I hand-built in 2014 using mainly Yves Usson’s (Yusynth) circuit designs – ones, I might add, that I painstakingly transcribed from his original printed circuit designs to my own veroboard layouts. These were originally housed in cheap Ikea bookshelves but last year I broke down and bought two very nice-looking Synthesizers.com cabinets, though I retained my own power supplies. The two 960 sequencers above are simply Behringer 960s I had re-housed inside full-size matching Synthesizers.com panels and cabinets. I am using Ableton to supply the midi that shifts the phase and it is what is driving the two modulars. Each modular has its own built-in sequencer though and while I have done a version of this piece using those, the results are too variable since I’m basically setting the speed of the two by ear.

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