Cover Art : BAS MANTEL / Conception - Layout : P. Petit
Barbiero (left) Vosh (center) Moore (right). 14 nov 2015
Reciprocess is about collaborating!
A series featuring the work(s) of two or more sound-designers and documenting the process of musical reciprocality between them and “Stratigrams” is our eigth entry.
Dave Vosh: analogue modular synthesizer.
Ken Moore: broken glass, tam-tams, bells on rope, Sela hand pan, short story synthesizer, Realistic ConcertMate 500, Kurzweil PC88, Strymon NightSky, Soma Laboratory Cosmos, voice, assemblage.
Daniel Barbiero: double bass, prepared double bass (on track 4), semi-prepared double bass (on track 1).
Stratigrams is a layered, electroacoustic studio collaboration for six hands in sequence.
Using a hybrid analogue modular synthesizer rig combining Doepfer and other European synth modules, Dave Vosh created the ground layer for each track by producing a directed, auto-generated soundscape.
Next, Daniel Barbiero composed or improvised a performance for double bass or prepared double bass, taking structural, timbral, and phrasing cues from Vosh’s recording.
For the final layer, Ken Moore took Vosh and Barbiero’s recordings and added his own contributions on synthesizers, electronics, and percussion, and assembled the pieces into the finished tracks you hear.
Dave Vosh has been exploring electronic music since the 70`s and draws his influences from the pioneers of the 50`s, 60`s and 70`s.
He has performed widely in D.C., Maryland and Virginia as a solo artist and with artists such as Ken Moore, Chris Videll, John St. John, Bev Stanton and Art Harrison.
His recordings are available on the Zeromoon, Pan y Rosas and Anvil Creations netlabels.
Dave Vosh. Photo by Chris Videll
Ken Moore was born in Baltimore, and began his interest in music at age 7 with piano lessons.
Then he started recording toy instruments, fronted a rock band, and wrote music for organ until college.
By 1980 he was selling his music on cassettes, then quit rock for electronic music, continuing experimental music and releasing albums…
Ken Moore (portrait)
Daniel Barbiero has been active in improvised and experimental music and dance in the Baltimore-Washington area as a performer, composer and ensemble leader since the early 2000s.
His music is inspired by the chromatic vocabulary, open-form compositional structures, and extended performance techniques of mid-20th century Modernism.
His verbal, graphic, and other scores employing nonstandard notation have been realized by ensembles and solo artists in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Daniel Barbiero. Photo by Nico Barbiero
Reciprocess is documenting the process of reciprocity !
A series based on collaborations. Some of us collaborating with other from our Modulisme community…
Giving a new life to the series initiated in the early 2000s on my defunct label BiP_HOp, in collaboration with Fällt Publishing.
Bas Mantel is in charge of designing cover artworks… See his page please:
