Fourm Four from Rebisus by Benge

Rebisus - the inner pulse

Presented here are five new pieces of music exploring the relationship between an electronic system of some complexity (details below) and simple pulse based compositions. The various instruments were set up in such a way as to be considered one large interactive system and the individual pieces were thereby 'grown' or allowed to form naturally

The system comprised the following elements:

Analog sound sources including oscillators and white noise generators; voltage controllers and processors including step sequencers, clock dividers, and potentiometers; audio processors including amplifiers, reverberation units, tape delay and keyed analog compression

The various triggers and gates were used to set off reactions that, for example, would send an audio signal to a reverberation unit being modulated by a separate but rhythmically connected pulse which would in turn be fed into an analog compressor being modulated by a different pulse thereby creating multi-layered rhythms and polyrhythms. The idea was to set up as complex a patch as possible whilst maintaining the simple ryhthmic identity of the pieces

Equipment used:
Buchla 100 / 200e hybrid modular synthesiser
EMS VCS3 modular synthesiser
Roland R880 Digital Reverberator
MXR 01 Digital Reverb
Watkins Copycat valve echo
Tascam 112R casette recorder
MXR Dual Limiter
Alesis 3060 compressor
DBX 119 compressor
Avalon VT747 Compressor / EQ
Langavin passive EQ
Yamha RM16 console

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