I'm Jim Petit, a french professional composer and musician. Thought my main instrument is lap steel guitar (weissenborn, hindustani's 22 strings Chaturangui, 14 strings electric lap steel I've designed), I've turned into that Moog synths' thing for something like a decade. My first use was to overdubbed my slide guitars' composition in a Pink Floyd - Ravi Shankar's kind of music, then for a progressive album made with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. Since 2017, I've dedicaded myself in augmented field recordings based on seasonal superimposed field recordings from the place I'm living. I've called it a 5th season and it is presented as a soundwalk for the people who come here in the outer edges of a Vosges moutains'valley.
After that project I needed to go one step further in that augmented soundscape's thing... Here came the idea : analysing the waters of 3 lakes with a dowser pendulum to prepare the Minimoog Voyager and Mother 32 ! This could be (and it is) a way to transpose the inner waters musicality into substractive synthesis.
You can stream (or buy) this music here : Au son des lacs
This album is the result of pendulum analysis of the waters of the lakes Altenweiher, Fischboedle and Schiessrotried. Only Minimoog Voyagers (and Mother 32 on the Altenweiher's track) are used.
Thanks to this approach, I was able to define for each lake the musical notes to use, the tempi, time signatures and set several MinMoog Voyager and Mother 32's' oscillators, frequency filters and other envelope generators. To these electronic compositions, I've added the seasonal soundscapes to produce three original and ambient musical pieces.
My next project will be live performances with a wind orchestra (plus alphorns) based on solstices and equinoxes soundscapes recordings and pendulum analyses of 4 peaks surrounding my place
Stay well in those complicated days.
Jim
