My forthcoming 8th album "Gematria 4Moog" is about to be released. on June 21, 2022 This album is performed with prepared DFMA, Mother 32, Subharmonicon, Voyager and MF107 Freqbox.
Here is a video clip with the part 2 of Fraxinus, music from a centenary ash tree.
https://youtu.be/omno5B7NeDs
The album will be available here :
https://jimpetit.bandcamp.com
About the prepared Moog synths and composition :
The oscillators, filters and enveloppe generators of the four Moog synths used in this album were prepared with my very own method by using a dowser pendulum. In this album, a centenary ash tree from my garden, a hollow beech above his barn in Mittlach - Upper Vosges valley and the source of the Lanterne river in the plateau des 1000 Étangs were analysed. Tempi and time signature were also determined this way.
The musical notes for the scores are both issued from the pendulum analyses and from gematrical* calculation, assigning a musical value to some words referring to feminity and european ash tree (fraxinus excelsior).
*Gematria is s the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase. As J.S BACH did, I translate the the numerical value to notes, notes length…
About the tracks :
- Gematria féminine : All synth sounds composed and performed using Moog’s DFAM, Mother 32, MiniMoog Voyager and Subharmonicon. Extra sounds played on two Weissenborn slide guitars, tibetan singing bowl and shamanic drum. Field recording inside the hollow beech was recorded the 4th of December 2021 (new moon) and the Lanterne river source was recorded the 17th of January 2022 (full moon).
- Fraxinus : All sounds composed and performed using Moog’s DFAM, Mother 32, MiniMoog Voyager and Subharmonicon. The Voyager is processed by a Moog Moogerfooger MF-107 FreqBox and by a 1970 Fender WahFuzz. Field recording of the rustling ivy leaves on the ash tree-trunk and birds singing on the ash tree branches were recorded the 24th of march 2022 at the sunrise.
