All Connected

All Connected is a new series in Huis23 that will feature - over 6 evenings, between October 2013 and June 2014 - concerts, films, readings and instrument presentations with and about artists who play with the language of ‘voltage control’. Artists who use the ‘modular’ as creative thinking process and who explore musical boundaries in doing so. Artists who work in the spirit of the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, a collective that came into being when pioneers like Terry Riley, Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Ramon Sender, Pauline Oliveros, and many others connected their oscillators and tape recorders together to produce the most progressive music of that period.

The series is curated by Floris Vanhoof. A musician, filmmaker and creative technician who has been doing exactly what he wants, in his very own way, for many years now: mainly making albums and giving shows with a self-made synth.

Kassel Jaeger

Kassel Jaeger is a Swiss-French composer about whom very little is known. He is a member of the Groupes de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris and has already released albums on Editions Mego, Senufo Editions and Unfathomless.

In Huis 23, Kassel Jaeger will present an evening dedicated to INA-GRM, with particular attention for the Coupigny modular synth. This unique, legendary synthesizer, there is only one in existence, was built in 1966 by Francis Coupigny. It was originally a prototype of the synth that was integrated into the GRM Studio in the late sixties. Almost every composer of any significance in musique concrète or electro-acoustic music has used the instrument in their compositions, Parmegiani, Bayle, Berio, Schaeffer,…
The synth itself can unfortunately no longer leave the GRM studios - as it is too unique, too fragile and too valuable - but Kassel Jaeger has found a solution.
The first part consists of a composition built up out of Coupigny synth sounds that will be presented in quadrophny. Then there will be a piece whereby a diffusion is screened upon a projection of the front panel of the synth.
Afterwards there will be an informal chat and Q&A with Kassel Jaeger about the famous synth, the GRM, his work,…

inks:
http://www.kasseljaeger.com/
https://soundcloud.com/kassel-jaeger
http://www.inagrm.com/
http://electroscopie.blogspot.be/2006_11_01_archive.html
http://endlesswebsite.blogspot.be/

Coupigny Jam '11 from Keith Fullerton Whitman on Vimeo.