Today we chat with Jerome Begin, an American composer and musician based in New York. We talk about his musical journey, how he approached modular synthesizers and why, and take a look at his compositional approach through the commissioned score he wrote for the Douglas Dunn dance company.
Jerome is currently Music Advisor at the Juilliard School Dance Division, and has composed many scores for dance, theater, concert works, installation and film performed worldwide. In his current works, he is mostly working on the interaction between electronic devices and acoustic instruments.
www.jeromebegin.com
Two modular scores mentioned in the interview:
Greener Grass: https://vimeo.com/790299860
Bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp66DG7CNic
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Today we chat with Jerome Begin, an American composer and musician based in New York. We talk about his musical journey, how he approached modular synthesizers and why, and take a look at his compositional approach through the commissioned score he wrote for the Douglas Dunn dance company.
Jerome is currently Music Advisor at the Juilliard School Dance Division, and has composed many scores for dance, theater, concert works, installation and film performed worldwide. In his current works, he is mostly working on the interaction between electronic devices and acoustic instruments.
www.jeromebegin.com
Two modular scores mentioned in the interview:
Greener Grass: https://vimeo.com/790299860
Bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp66DG7CNic
3. Baséput – Sequencers, Kalimantan Death Rituals, and The Beatles
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3. Baséput – Sequencers, Kalimantan Death Rituals, and The Beatles
Rayhan Sudrajat is an Indonesian ethnomusicologist and composer also known as Baséput. His research focused on Kalimantan death rituals from the musical perspective. Baséput is his electronic music project, whose concept is to link between the voices and instruments of the indigenous people and the modular synthesizer to create a new form of experience in the modular world.
Baséput's EP: https://baseput.bandcamp.com/album/astungkara
Video: https://youtu.be/oDQLAuvnS-8
00:00:00 Rayhan Sudrajat’s music and research on Kalimantan death rituals
00:09:28 Sundanese traditional music and modular synthesizers
00:20:28 Rayhan’s patch
00:27:25 Sampling ancient Indonesian instruments and Buchla synths
00:40:18 Microtonal scales with the USTA sequencer and other performance techniques
00:57:28 Techno and the importance of keep learning
01:04:37 What could be the next Frap Tools module?
01:10:36 Giovanni’s Patch
Let’s Talk Music
Today we chat with Jerome Begin, an American composer and musician based in New York. We talk about his musical journey, how he approached modular synthesizers and why, and take a look at his compositional approach through the commissioned score he wrote for the Douglas Dunn dance company.
Jerome is currently Music Advisor at the Juilliard School Dance Division, and has composed many scores for dance, theater, concert works, installation and film performed worldwide. In his current works, he is mostly working on the interaction between electronic devices and acoustic instruments.
www.jeromebegin.com
Two modular scores mentioned in the interview:
Greener Grass: https://vimeo.com/790299860
Bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp66DG7CNic
