HannesDesign Clipboard is a new series of articles I plan to write here on Horizontalpitch. As you can guess from the name, these...
Interviews
Matthias Puech, Explicit Intentions
The name Matthias Puech probably needs little introduction to most of you. He first became known through his alternate, “parasite” firmware projects for Mutable Instruments modules. Later he worked with XAOC on the software for their popular modulation source Batumi, and designed the excellent Tapographic Delay for 4ms. What [...]
Hannes
Billy Gomberg, Carving Towards Coherency
My first contact with Billy Gomberg’s work happened almost by coincidence. In the early days of Mutable Instruments’ inception, we were among the few people to get hold of a Shruti-1 kit. The community was still small back then and, obviously, we all knew each other. His minimalistic approach to making electronic music, the [...]
Hannes
Chosen Waves 015: Topographer
After being an emerging name in Romania’s Drone/Doom Metal scene under the name Tauusk and releasing several albums, Răzvan Lazea-Postelnicu turned to the modular for further inspiration, attracted by its extended sonic palette. His new project Topographer inherits some of the traits found in his previous musical journey, keeping [...]
Hannes
Chosen Waves 014: R Beny
Austin Cairns, who lives in the San Francisco Bay area, has been making music under the moniker R Beny for some time now. You probably have seen his videos around, as he is also an active youtuber. His name gets mentioned surprisingly often when talking about modulars and ambient music and been inspiring many people […]
Hannes
Chosen Waves 013: Ann Annie – Modular Field Trip Ep. 1
We’re back! It’s been quite a while since our last post, but you know… life happens. For all of you who still visit this place from time to time: thanks a lot! You owned yourself our heartfelt gratitude! For everybody else: welcome to Horizontalpitch! The last years have been quite a bit of a journey […]
Hannes
The Modular Sound
You’ve all probably seen it by now, Behringer has jumped into the synth market and is about to release a polyphonic analogue keyboard synth. This would be a totally unrelated story, if not for one sentence by Richard Devine, who, in the first teaser video, describes this new synth with the words: “It sounds very […]
Hannes
Scanning Through The Waves
Cover photo by Ian Wallman If you’ve never heard about Scanner then you’ve probably been spending the last 20 years on the un-illuminated side of a far away planet listening to … well … basically nothing. Calling him prolific and multi-talented is almost an understatement. Since the beginning of his career he’s released [...]
Hannes
Chosen Waves 010: Gattobus – Escape (from the dream)
[ecko_youtube]PbPcwQGXYi8[/ecko_youtube] Horizontal Pitch: Who is Gattobus? Gattobus: My real name is Gianni Proietti. I was looking for an original user name when I registered my Youtube account, years ago, and because of my love for Miyazaki’s movies, I chose the Italian translation for “neko-basu” that is gattobus. I started making [...]
Marco
Tune your patchcables to strings
“I improvise when I play on my own, so I see where the patch I have made takes me,” says Stefan Paul Goetsch from his home studio in Berlin. Far from being an uncommon utterance among the modular crowd, whether it be jamming at home or taking a portable modular system to a live venue, […]
Konstantine
Chosen Waves 009: Rupert Lally – Solitary Pleasures
Solitary Pleasures by Rupert Lally Sometimes articles create a sort of unplanned and unexpected narrative. This is certainly the case with the latest series of Chosen Waves. Some time ago I posted about Ruper Lally’s ambient-imbued album Day One. In the interview I asked him about his opinion on the current trend of making [...]
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