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As part of the practice behind Hélène Vogelsinger‘s modular synth compositions, the French singer and sound designer explores abandoned places and connects with their energies to create immersive and suspended moments. “I love the fact that they have layers of stories and histories, with different occupants, often crossing times, and always full of beautiful and melancholic poetry,” she says.
Prior to this episode of Patch Notes, Vogelsinger went on a 800km trip to visit an abandoned cloister, where she took pictures, videos and recorded soundscapes. She then came back to her studio and started to create the musical foundations based on what she experienced during that day. “I always compose my main sequences and record the vocals and instruments upstream,” she says. “It is the first phase of creation.”
A few weeks later, Vogelsinger returned to record the finished piece, but the building wasn’t accessible. But on her way back home, in the south of France, she came across an abandoned castle, “an improbable apparition”, in the middle of an industrial zone. “With Chalisk, who films all my sessions, we were amazed and shocked at the same time,” she says. “We were amazed by this place’s aura and energy and shocked by the way it has been ransacked.”
Although the piece wasn’t recorded for the space, the castle’s own history (the family who lived there helped refugees who fled war) and aura made it suitable for the session.
“The installation and the recording session are always a process within the process, which takes a few hours. Technically it requires a good organisation: three modular cases and hundred of cables, a generator, a camera, lights and again so many cables,” she says. “It is something really intense, especially in those types of abandoned places, where you have to avoid a lot of obstacles.”
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Video by Chalisk Pito
When you sell the contents of your house to fund your modular synths.
😂😂😂😂
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HAHAHAHA lol
Sounds 'bout right...lol!
Lolol
I love what she’s done with the place.
I agree, the broken glass is a nice touch
It’s what happens if you have children instead of modular synths....I think she’s visiting friends with kids like mine
stanlowcrickets 888 - is that why her music sounds void of anything?
@@ReformedWhiteKnight it’s called ambient music. You aren’t required to enjoy it. You aren’t expected to enjoy it.
@@HSTRTGMS I understand ambient music. There is good, there is mediocre and than there is bad or uninspired music in all kinds of styles... and this one lives of it being shot in that derelict big house and the gear being used ... not any composing or creative force involved... ok, it's a piece of ambient (=background) music... ;-)
Some details for anyone unfamiliar with how live performances work on a modular. First, they call them "Patch Notes" for a reason. If you want to reproduce a sound on modular, you need to make detailed notes (using Modular Music Notation) of your patches and spend time setting it up any time you break them down. That said, she is not using all the sound paths that she has wired in this single song and she definitely leaves her patches set between sessions. She can switch between and blend sound paths with her mixer to perform a full set without doing any live patching - simply by mixing the different inputs. She just has to remember what channel she has each sound path running to and then tweaks the knobs for the dynamic performance.
Thanks.
Oh, interesting. Ta!
I was just about to say that
Cool 😎
wow thankyo
I can visualize a time lapse of people moving throughout this space, like moving shadows dancing in reverse. The decay being replaced with furniture and people. Beautiful. Well done
Actually, I'm pretty sure scenes like this appeared in multiple movies I saw, I just couldn't give you any titles 😅
@@geronimo8159 Koyaanisqatsi
As beautiful as the music, this comment is.
A Ghost Story
Love your mind
She is sacrificing her back to make mindblowing music for us all.
rounding off the back is actually good for some people especially if you are genetically weak in the abs that causes hyperlordosis
If you're into meditation, you learn early to hold that position for prolonged times
She'll be fine. She young and she has a nice pillow. Better than we had back in my day. We had to play our modular synths out in the burning sun on concrete. While walking uphill in the snow.
Studies have shown that it’s not good to sit in one particular position for prolonged periods of time. This includes sitting up straight. The discs in our spines need to balance the pressure by shifting sitting positions. This means that sometimes it’s good to sit in a slouched position. Point being it doesn’t matter how your posture is when you sit, as long as you are alternating throughout the sitting session.
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This film is a perfect metaphor for getting into eurorack.
broke but happy?
:D
They call it eurocrack for a reason
@@davidvandervlugt2728 "Come on man just one more module, I brought you an iPhone..."
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Just WOW. Some of the best modular patchwork and control I've ever seen and heard. She was the relaxed conductor of an electronic orchestra & choir. Transient and beautiful in a juxtaposed space of age and decay. Brava!
Warum bekomme ich jedesmal eine Gänsehaut und manchmal laufen einfach die Tränen.? Wahnsinnig gut, diese Musik berührt mich jedesmal so tief wie nichts anderes es vermag. 💚
All the ghosts that haunted this house have moved on, satisfied and at peace.
🌟👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻🌟
However, this modern aural incantation, seeps into the fabric of the house, summoning from dark forgotten times something far more sinister than imagined...
😁😁😅
😈☠👽👾👹🤡
You know when in L. O. T. R. When Aragorn free the Haunted ghosts. Same kind of shit here.
If electric signal can create such a soundscape, just imagine how the universe is so divine.
Really interesting view!
nice words. ive started to think this way about synthesis... messin with the building blocks of the universe
U sound like my mom
@@end7essx kzhead.info/sun/aJqAm86xfmScrZ8/bejne.html
@@Jesus_All_Alone thank you for that
I can't believe that this exists..... I'm listening over and over... the most exciting musicial discovery for me in many years. Thank you so much!
100% same, I'm blown away on so many levels by this
That's one of the most impressive modular performances I've ever seen in my life. That is - beyond anything.
All the prior inhabitants of this building, most existing before electricity, could never have imagined such a manifestation.
I too am baked out of my mind rn
It makes me wonder what kind of instruments people will be playing in the future. Probably some kind of subatomic particle shit.
@@yeahrightbear8883 Could be ! Subatomic or photonic devices...
@@shiva007freephenix maybe some electronic synth sounds attached/emanating from a fungal mycelia and/or fruitbody
i imagine kind of the beauty of knowing her a child inheritant of the rich and influent owner family which has declined past century, beauty of the youth having now that space to experiment , even if the suffering of the world beings is to be known too,
What she is doing is not easily achieved. This is endless hours of experimentation and patching to achieve this. Beautiful to say the least!
@tode vole the whole thing is a beat drop mate
unemployment certainly has some benefits.
@@sapitron Or maybe she's making her living with music and composition skills lol
@@sapitron you’re just a salty capitalist :( you have no soul
would have been so much easier with conventional hardware & sequencers though.
Hauntingly beautiful! It's like she's channeling the song of the soul of the house, that saw all the years and decades of family life within its walls. It's almost as though through the music, the veil of time comes down and I can visualize the goings-on of the families that could have lived in this house. The voices at the end make me wonder about who lived there and for some reason, especially who was the last family member to leave this home. Thank you for this work of art.
I believe more in channeling yourself , especially in music
Read the description, it is
my biggest draw when it comes to modular synth is the sense of constant tension, the constant build-up that perpetuates from start to finish, it evokes almost "fearful anticipation" of what's to come and I love that!
........then nothing.
@@yongyea4147 Some stories needn't a resolution or grand climax to be beautiful. Happy New Year
I just wondered how that could be an interesting choice for a movie ending.
Exactly my thought, I can easily envisage a dystopian future with overbearing brutalist architecture, the last whisper of humanity exploring the desolate environment as wicked and lush greenery creeps back into what was once man's dominion to reclaim what has always been rightfully hers. @@matheusrocha9450
I love the vocal formant that the reverb sometimes has, sounds like a beautiful choir on a cathedral.
This was just reverb??
There's definitely a choir sound... coming from somewhere... sounds nice though
I would love to see how one prepares and rehearses a performance like this. As organic and improvised as it looks, I imagine there is an enormous amount of thought put into how the piece evolves, when things should happen, etc. That is the point where it goes from creating a patch to making music, and it is the point where so many (myself included) seem to get stuck.
No where near as complicated as it may seem. Simple a matter of tuning, Organizing a few sequences, using a mixer to fade in parts and most importantly a good camera/audio recording rig. If in doubt just mush everything with some valhalla reverb.
Read the description 😁.
hear you bro!
It was probably pretty spontaneous
She explains the preocess in a interview. First she visists the place just to get the vibe of it. Them she goes back to her studio and draws a sketch on the composition, harmony, sequences, patching, sampling her voice and other insturments,, etc...Then she goes back to the place with the system pre-patched and loaded with the samples. During performance, she can tweak and change things a bit, going with the flow of the moment. They record several takes and pick the best one.
I just discovered another greatest musician on earth!!!!!!!!
Wow! Fantastic! That´s an orchestra with its conductor. Poliphony in great level. Thanks for your work!
This is an example of how the sound and vibe itself is more important than the formula or the strategy. This is two arpeggios and two pads constantly evolving across the synths settings, mainly in the envelope, and its perfect. It doesn’t take a video to hear it and feel it but this definitely helps the purpose of the climactic moments become more obvious
You worded the premise in your first sentence eloquently. That is what I believe in as well.
AR54: I want to sit next to you and hear your live analysis at an in person performance, if we are ever lucky enough to hear her in person with a meticulously balanced soundboard and a stack that sends the local seismometers crazy. I'd def produce that event (and "list you") although I'm retired from the biz due to medical. 👍 :DDR69
@@LettyGhost Those are vocal samples(guessing sung by her) brought in and processed within the modular setup. This video gives a good idea of the process: kzhead.info/sun/hNJup96PnqeKYGw/bejne.html
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Lol this is an example Jackson pollack being popular only bc of The fbi and CIA, but in this case it's idiots who obviously couldn't tell if a person shaking his leg is a majestic innovative drum beat or someone just being nervous. Ppl who seek more of this out please out yourself now so we know never to listen to your thoughts
Anybody else who doesn't want this to stop? I just could keep on listening to this forever! Wonderful!
So true! I made a coffee and just stared into space for 9 minutes when this came on. I could listen to it all day.
She should an hour long mix. Exploring all the Sonics right to the end of their thread, and then beyond. It is just absolutely magically. First time I heard it, I instantly needed more. So just looked it 5 times running.
buy a module press play,,,thank me later
I love how the vibe of the music reflects the vibe of the space she's making it in. Very cool
this is truly immersive. awesome transitions & the different moods the song transmits are just impressive!
The day after you defeat the zombies. Finally, got the house to yourself, time to make beautiful music.
Hahahahahahaha
How would she have done it
The light after darkness
u thought u defeated the zombies, but you're wearing headphones & somethings creepin
ye
"Magnificent lyrics" -R2D2
Not to pull a "well actually", but there's a fun fact about that: R2D2 really was originally voiced by an ARP 2600 synthesizer, which is an ancestor of modular synth systems like this one.
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@@Zepheriah I didnt know about that, thanks for sharing 👍
@@Zepheriah "These young punks don't respect language" -R2D2
i LOLd on this!!!
Those harmonies makes me smile and cry at the same time... thank u ♥️
OK this is absolutely stunning work, amazing composition and beautiful execution. Hélène if you are reading this I had no idea who you were but you're instantly at the top of my modular list. this is beautiful!
you two need to get in the same room and nerd out. Seriously.
Watch Silent Strike on instagram or on yt but for his solo music for this kind of sounds. he s not from this realms, trust me :)
Perfect
Colin Benders composition? Have you listened to Beethoven’s Moolight Sonata (played with meaning preferably by a European pianist)? Well, please do this and than come back to listen to this.... composition, which really is an evolving 4 bar pattern ...
@@ReformedWhiteKnight for context, I also think john cage's 4'33" was an amazing composition. or steve reich's music for 18 musicians, which is arguably also not much more than a few evolving patterns. no point in gatekeeping taste.
I can visualize the past owners of the house just walking in and out of the rooms and hallways as time is winning. All in fast motion. Beautiful
Was think the same, must have been a nice view when the house was pristine.
Amazing 🥺❤️
I am just blown away. Well composed and executed.
it's so cool how modular synth is getting to be a thing, you get this real analog sense of how electronics work!
Wow.. someone with modular synths that actually play something good, harmonic and with structure! Kudos! :D
Bingo. Love to see some composition applied to modular.
Hope everyone is making the most out of their day! If you made it here, you’re on the right path. Much love to all the sonic explorers out there twisting nobs and shaping the future of humanity. Come together!! 🙏❤️🎶🧬🌎🦾🧠
hahahahahahahahah :')
I watched video's on KZhead all day while my house is in a state of disarray.. Guess I'm on the right path though thanks for confirming!
What a flow... Absolutely stunning ❤️
This was marvellous! Thoroughly enjoyed! Only realised afterwards-no drums! I'm learning electronic music these days and all I hear about is drums and drum synthesis, and making sure your drums “cut through the mix”, and exhaustive bollocks about making sure you're buying the drum MIDI that industry pros you've never heard of are using to make hit records you've never heard. Then there are all the drum apps. I have so many drum apps. But you make this music that gave me tingles-the choir part kept getting bigger and more powerful, and reminded me of being in a plane taking off!-and there's NO DRUMS! 😱 Brava! :)
This is more like old school 60s/70s electronic music. Most people today are just doing crappy monotonous 4/4 rave music.
The mistake you’re making and many are making is listening to “rules” established by people wanting to make mainstream music. That’s why so much music has become same-y. It helps to learn what they’re on about so you can do it your own way.
I only realised that there were no drums until you pointed it out! Woah!
It strike me hard this rule: Drums mostly destroy music. I indeed I enjoy most of the music without drums. Drums are very tiring if you want to listen music. You maybe like to listen Hania Rani.
the books that propped up each synth.
Ok i think I'm here because of some synth playing mushroom algorithm. My evenings taken a weird turn but i like it.
Yooo me too
Same
: D
Same here
I am in that club too! 😂
Such the amazing vibe and energy in this composition. Great work!
I just can't stop coming back to this video. Incredible
That sounds like telling a story.
Voices from the past
I believe that the music have to tell stories, otherwise is just noise.
I feel like a sick beat is about to be dropped in any second for 9 minutes
Me too, man
I wish it would though!
@@ethnicalbert honestly, it almost hurts how bad it makes you want a beat drop
Cosmic blue balls
thank you
I come back here many many times to enjoy this master piece.
I always come back to Helene. Absolutely Amazing
this is proper sick and HARD to pull off. i know I've had experience. big ups and MAX respect to her
yeah ok. sure, NICK
She killed it. Amazing performance
of course you'd think so lol
Jamaar Just lovely!
I honestly don’t want to listen to anything else ever again… what beautiful & enormous feelings
When the KZhead algorithm brings you here and you're like...yup, that's what I was "looking for!
Modular really ties the room together. Love it.
Intense, hypnotic, beautiful.
What a majestic beauty of sound and vision did this wonderful composer and musician realize - in a house so maltreated by people. Wonderful. Thank you.
Merci pour ce moment ❤.
Absolutely beautiful, on so many levels. Cheering me up on the first day of the UK's second lockdown.
The UK is not in lockdown; England is. Wales has already had a second lockdown.
@@TheTwoTruths *rolls eyes*
Lockdown is perfect time for diving into synths and drum machines and finally learn all their features. Maybe it’s not so bad
I am from the future setting up a time loop to those that know looping, it’s 5 years and the. Curve is not yet flattened and most people are dead or dying, save yourself and avoid the death jab 😱🔫🧬 The 15th one in 2023 is the worst ☠️
Wow. This is like Philip Glass playing a giant interstellar space organ.
Reminds me of my grand parents' house, a beautiful Colonial house, when I was a kid, we ran around in the endless space inside and outside, so magical. Such fond memories, thank you :)
The whole staging.. the locations she chooses... all of that is so inspiring! Not the music but everything else inspires me.
Amazing. Great music. Great clothes. Great house. Great garden. Great camerawork as in slow. Thank you for being so natural. Especially as a woman myself i adore other women who stay natural. Best to you. This compilation is awesome.
Who else was waiting for drum section? ⚡🔊💥
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🖤
Indeed, it was beautiful but no climax. Like a night spent in a hotel room with a beautiful women but no sex.
@@schiaucugabriel6202 ahaha really! 🙈
One of the best modular performances I've ever heard and moving forward an influence on future Proxy Merchants records!
The cinematography, like the soundscape, is beautiful ❤️
I really love this track. It is so beautiful!
I feared in-retrospect of 2020, that watching the Qatsi Trilogy would have been too much for me to handle. I’ve been watching/listening to this, again and again. There still so much I’m taking-in from the music emotionally. Truly captivating.
Great piece! I love the choir mixed with the arpeggios and the droning bass - it works fantastically well!
wow wow this is really beautiful music the sounds are full and clean thank you for you perfect music Hélène Vogelsinger 💙
Nice space for composing and a little noodling in the spheres of Earth.God Bless you Ms.Helene for your great talents. I really love your music and your so prolific. Danke from LA😊
This immensely beautiful piece of music and the poetry and epics it represents has moved me to tears! Thank you for sharing such deep and beautiful compositions!!!
She fills this sad place with music 🎵, greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
Still amazing after 2 years! ❤
This is beautiful, thank you very much!
I love absolutely everything about this. Wow.
Congratulations Hélène your art inspires me ... your music is breathtaking!
i love this. place, atmosphere perfect
Lovely setting for beautiful music.
Beautiful place, wounderful sound !!!
So indescribable to describe what I feel. Just through the heart into the deepest corners of my soul....
Amazing. The art is beautiful. Traveling across a vast world of beauty and diverse cultures coming together to listen to what needs to be heard.❤
Wow! Awesome! Thank you! I get chills listening to this.
I bet that house was popping in the 60's.
of the 18 hundreds!
More like 18th century!
Still is dope
To me it doesn't look like it's been abandonned for a long time, I would say it's been like this for 10 to 20 years maximum.
No words, yet speaks volumes to my soul. Haunting work to shatter ones core. I love your frequency Hèléna!
I accidentally had this playing at the same time w/ another modular live jam video, titled "Arcology • Sunset Eurorack at Arcosanti". I had NO idea they both were playing because they sounded so good together! they were in key and everything, super wild. Tempted to keep playing both at the same time now.. maybe after I hear them by themselves first lol
Love those sounds. So amazing
This is what frightens me most about modular and getting into it, the cabling alone is a work of art. Beautiful sound scape.
My mom said it's very dangerous and easy way to electrocute yourself. Far more dangerous than dealing with 220 that will pop you.... 110 will latch onto you and never let go.
I Love this sound textures, the changes over all the song is genius, I really play with you with my portasound and some reverbs and delay time. Thanks for your creativity.
Simply fantastic. I just ordered the vinyl.
beautiful music!!! thank You!!
Wonderful vibe. Space and sounds goes hand in hand.
When buying synthesizers is priority than furniture. #facts
I ❤ this Piece. I put it on last night, and it helped fall asleep.
So beautiful and her process resonates with me very much.
Transforming chaos into beauty, non-stop, feels like life, love this :)
The voice-like pad is amazing!!
Sweetly reminiscent of a future of ambient trance-end-dance. A poetry of oscillation. A wash of the lush emerging from turbulence. Forgive me my waffling. I was moved. Don’t ever stop! Gee 52
Great music, great show and especially I loved how that Moog synthesizers are tilted with books.
Wow ! Sounds like she's distorting space-time ! Beautiful, mesmerizing, outstanding !
i hope i hear this again on my way out of this world, cus that's the sound that i want to hear when i enter the next one
its beautiful and nice to here someone who plays her music from the inner with a real passion for the music
AMAZING, Just amazing
I like how she propped up her synths with old books. Great staging!
brilliant and inspiring
I’ve never heard or seen anything like it. Amazing. And great to read the many comments of people that are making music in the same/similar ways talking about interesting details, and with so much respect to each other and this artist.A very pleasant part of the internet to have stumbled upon. Thank you, all!
So inspiring!!! Thank you!