Jurassic Modulations

2012

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Kurt Werner
live structured improvisation, 16 channels

From the concert program notes:

Jurassic Modulations is a loosely structured conversation / improvisation via "El Dinosaurio", Fernando Lopez-Lezcano's patchcord programmable analog synth, and Kurt Werner's digital sample-feedback FM synthesizer. The two instruments are controlled, spatialized, looped, processed, and cross-modulated in real time.

Kurt was running a ChucK-based digital sample-feedback FM synthesizer, feeding three channels into my setup. I was processing the output of El Dinosaurio through SooperLooper (with 8 loops) and two instances of the Freqtweak spectral processor (4 channels on each instance). Everything was routed into Ardour which acted as a mixer and effects processor - that is where all incoming channels were mixed, reverberated, controlled and finally routed to all 16 speakers in the CCRMA Stage. All controlled through one BCR2000 (Kurt) and one PCR500 keyboard controller plus another BCR2000 on my side (on a laptop running Fedora 14 plus Planet CCRMA). Sonic mayhem resulted.

Sound

Stereo reduction of the performance recorded in the Stage during the CCRMA Winter Concert 2012: FLAC.

Performances

• CCRMA Winter Concert 2012, "Jurassic Modulations", CCRMA, February 24th, 2012.

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano

Composer, performer, lecturer and computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University

Quick Links

El Dinosaurio
Applesauce Modular Mark V
Planet CCRMA

Music & Performances

Of Dinosaurs and Other Creatures
The Well Modulated Dinosaur
The Love Songs of Flying Dinosaurs
El PianoSaurio
Dinosaur He[a]rd!
Wings
Resurrections
Pia[NOT] Etude
The Miraculous Multiplication of Strings
Y Sonó Como Arpa Vieja
Un Esqueleto en la Cocina
The Hidden and Mysterious Machinery of Sound
Modulate me, please?
Space, S[acred|ecular]
Vox Voxel
Toast and Jam
Divertimento de Cocina
Velvet Skin, Heart of Steel
Fugue 1 (Fanfare)
Jurassic Modulations
Earth Songs
Dinosaur Skin
A Very Fractal Cat, Somewhat T[h]rilled
65 Second Bycicle
The Dinosaur At War
Exit Variations
El Dinosaurio Habla
Kitchen <-> Miniature(s)
Instant Knoll
iICEsCcRrEeAaMm
House of Mirrors
With Room to Grow
Knock knock, anybody there?
Three Dreams
Espresso Machine II
Hot'n Cold
Quest