NO CØNTROL presents
Signal Flow: The Common Language of Sound
4.22.26
7pm - 11pm
Signal Flow: The Common Language of Sound
4.22.26
7pm - 11pm
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
Producers, Sound Designers and Electronic Musicians have something in common: Signal. Or rather, how a signal is directed. As it flows, be they analog voltage or digital bits, these signals are shaped and manipulated not just by circuitry, components and DSP, but by the designers that produce them, and the artists who interact with them.
Let’s examine how we interpret signal flow. Today we are able to access the early tools of modular systems reimagined in various hardware devices. The common language of signal flow persists in software as well, with Ableton Live and VCV Rack as noteworthy examples.
In this talk we’ll discuss our myriad options, how we arrived at them, and share ideas on where to go next. We’ll trace these ideas across environments from DAWs and virtual modular systems to synths and grooveboxes, revealing how similar their underlying logic is despite their different forms. And we’ll showcase a new project called The Mutable Box, a revision of the Shared System concept featuring a complete system of Emilie Gillet’s original creations for the now defunct Mutable Instruments.
Panel guests include:
Alex Hofmann (Bralle)
Jacob Skoglund (Skoglund)
Mac McCormack (Constructible)
Michelle Kierencew (Michelle Kay, Impulse Cøntrol)
Soo (S7IK)
Includes live performances and a hands-on demo.