In this week's show, we talk to the Portland-based Inter-disciplined artist and musician Marcus Fischer. We talk favourite equipment, tape, OM1 and his wonderful Journey on the way to the Whitney Museum of American Art. We stop off along the journey to talk about his time at the Rauschenberg residency. Here he explored lots of different creative mediums, whilst forming his tangibly deep album 'Loss'. A great show to listen too! Show Timings Intro: 000 Guest intro: 2.56 Interdisciplinary artist: 4.38 Tape and instrument connection: 10.15 Tape overdubbing: 18.59 Events and the road to gallery a ..read more

In this week's Esoteric Modulation we talk to Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer HAINBACH. We talk the beautiful world of test equipment and its creative flow, limitations and minimalism, we all lust after the Cocoquantus and we talk about HAINBACH's latest release Old Suns! Apologies to the few that heard the unedited version, this is the fully edited version. Also, this episode has a few pops and clicks in the audio, we had a bit of a battle with the audio this week! Show Note Timings Episode 006  The Art of Scanner Show Note Timings Into: 0.00 Quick Artist Bio 1 ..read more

In this weeks show we talk about our obsession for tape and Ben’s ‘West Coast Adventure’ over in Seattle at Patchwerks for the Velocity event. We focus on some of the artists at Velocity that have included tape within their set up with some great sound examples! From catching reels, to a ghosty Halloween contact mic, we talk about it all! Show Timings Intro: 000 Velocity Event  3.23 Tape obsession 5.39 Tweed Moo Sound Example 10.29 Talk about Tweed Moo 11.07 Ann Annie - Tape Glitch Sound Example 12.40 Talk about Ann Annie - Tape Glitch 13.42 Ann Annie - Foley + Drone Sound Example 14.25 T ..read more

In this week's show, we talk to Portland base sound and visual artist Amulets. We have a great conversation on his journey of tape! We talk tape equipment, artistic approach, his lineage of visual art and how his music has been part of his therapy. We touch on a lot of stuff in this one, sit back and grab a coffee!  Show Timings Intro of what we have been up to 0:00 Guest Intro: 7:42 Suitcase, VL1 and GASS 9:58  Sound and Setup Evolution 11:34 The tape as bandmates! 21:00 Playing the Guitar 25:40 Tape compersion 27.12 Blending Sounds 33:53 Tape and tape! 35:00 Effects 39:50 The visua ..read more

In this week's show, we talk to Cologne based artist and Youtuber Felix, the man behind 'The Tuesday Night Machines' Youtube channel. We start off with giving him a little grief about selling his Ciat Lonbarde equipment :-) Then we get down to a great conversation of what equipment speaks to Felix and His creative process with different gear. We then chat about and journey through a raft of synth formats and find time to talk Gotharman's Little deFormer, and his old school MPC 500! Grab a cuppa, sit down and press that play button.  Show Timings Intro what we have been up to: 0.00 Guest i ..read more

In this week's show, we have Dave Cranmer a mechanical sculptor and freelance engineer that has his roots firmly in sound. He is truly an adventurous multimedia artist, designer and builder that has created all kinds of beautiful, bizarre and exceptional machines! We look at his road to being 'The Nervous Squirrel', we talk building modular and focus on some of his amazing projects and commissions! From a  Radioactive Xylophone to the renowned Badgermin  (a theremin in a badger!) we talk about it all! We could not get all the show notes on this so page so head over to www.esotericmo ..read more

In this weeks episode, we run over Ben's Eurorack Case set up he put together for a live performance at the Deer Shed Festival. We break it all down. We talk performance set up philosophies, zonal methods, sound examples of those zones, effects chains and the selection of modules and how they were used! Ben has kindly organised high-quality audio, videos on the modules and information over on his Patron Account for free access go to:  bit.ly/DivKidLiveCase Shown Note Times Intro: 0.00 Live modular setup intro: 0.39 Live performance case overview: 2.30 Sound 1- Noise: 12.09 Discussion on ..read more

In this months show, we have the mighty Todd Barton gracing our podcast. We talk about his album metaScapes and the inspiration behind the album, the MetaSynth. We chat about the compilation Buchla cassette he has been involved with, and we take a deep dive into Todd's creative process via some art talk! Then we round the show off talking Hordijk system, Serge and of course, Buchla! Ben And Ed's pre-talk Timings 0.00 Show Intro 0:47 What Ben's Been up to - Modular Meets Leeds 2:47 FELT Instruments Wolno 3:55 Ben's Sound Example 6:07  Chat about example 7:00 What Ed's Been up to -  P ..read more

In this week's show, we talk about what we have been up to and talk about gear that we have been playing with over Christmas. Jamuary, Eventide project and more!  Show Timings Intro: 000 What Ed has been up too with gear: 00.40 What Ben has been up too with gear: 12.11 Jamuary 20.07 Eventide Project 28.20 Space Study 1 audio 38.10 Talk about space study 41.29 New Show News 47.50 Shout outs 49.59 Show Notes BASTL microGranny https://bastl-instruments.com/instruments/microgranny Onde Magnétique OM-1 Cassette Synthesiser http://www.ondemagnetique.com Nord Drum 3p https://www.nordkeyboards ..read more

In this week's show, we talk to multi-creative Matthew Shaw about an esoteric bunch of banana equipment! We chat about the wonders of Serge Systems, the Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus and Plumbutter (of course, I get a royal ribbing from Ben about the Coco!:)  We take a look at the continuity of creativity, through different creative disciplines. And we round it all off very nicely with Matthew's Band Camp album,  Leisure Complex! Show Timings Into 000 Guest introduction 2.07 Guest Talk 2. 42 Serge systems 4.01 Serge Audio Example 17.30 Serge systems 18.24 Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 21.58 ..read more