Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger
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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 - Hudba
When you sell the contents of your house to fund your modular synths.
😂😂😂😂
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HAHAHAHA lol
Sounds 'bout right...lol!
Lolol
It's amazing that the series of sounds give me the sense of a narrative arc charged with emotional states
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
Crazy she had to do all of that to defuse the bomb
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... ;-)
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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How utterly gorgeous....!
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.
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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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
Hélène, vous êtes la déesse Kénopsia en personne. Brillante prestation!🤩
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
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 czcams.com/video/56GkjyG2fzg/video.html
@@Jesus_All_Alone thank you for that
It's not easy to bring out 9 minutes of music without any rhythmic accompaniment, a great feat ! Captivating !
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.❤
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.
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.
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!
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,
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
That's one of the most impressive modular performances I've ever seen in my life.
That is - beyond anything.
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
"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!!!
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
@@CaptainMikeMeloni 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: czcams.com/video/Qn5wzWguT-4/video.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
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
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
the books that propped up each synth.
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
This is as good as it gets, great presentation I would love to see this at sunset or sunrise
I just discovered another greatest musician on earth!!!!!!!!
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 🥺❤️
Intense, hypnotic, beautiful.
masterpiece 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵
I honestly don’t want to listen to anything else ever again… what beautiful & enormous feelings
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.
That sounds like telling a story.
Voices from the past
I believe that the music have to tell stories, otherwise is just noise.
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
Wow! Fantastic! That´s an orchestra with its conductor. Poliphony in great level. Thanks for your work!
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
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.
Modular really ties the room together. Love it.
Oh my goodness Sister, THE TRUE SYMPHONY OF THE CELESTIAL DANCE!
BRILLIANT! NE-VER STOP MAKING GOOD HEALING MUSIC!
You have your own style totally but learned from the best synthewave sounds from basically all 80's synthewave music & from all video games.
See, this is what I would do if I had enough extra money for all of that expensive equipment. LoL
When the CZcams algorithm brings you here and you're like...yup, that's what I was "looking for!
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.
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! 😂
I love how the vibe of the music reflects the vibe of the space she's making it in. Very cool
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 :)
She fills this sad place with music 🎵, greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
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 CZcams all day while my house is in a state of disarray.. Guess I'm on the right path though thanks for confirming!
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.
Great music, great show and especially I loved how that Moog synthesizers are tilted with books.
The voice-like pad is amazing!!
She killed it. Amazing performance
of course you'd think so lol
Jamaar Just lovely!
it's so cool how modular synth is getting to be a thing, you get this real analog sense of how electronics work!
This is so good
So indescribable to describe what I feel. Just through the heart into the deepest corners of my soul....
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 ☠️
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 and an intriguing house.
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
Wow ! Sounds like she's distorting space-time ! Beautiful, mesmerizing, outstanding !
So many cables to handle. Impressive how musical notes can be processed this way (in analog style, if I understand correctly.)
this opened me the world to modular synths
One of the best modular performances I've ever heard and moving forward an influence on future Proxy Merchants records!
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 am just blown away. Well composed and executed.
Awesome use of books.
brilliant and inspiring
Wonderful vibe. Space and sounds goes hand in hand.
masterpiece.
Beautiful.
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.
Wow. This is like Philip Glass playing a giant interstellar space organ.
2:59 I saw the cameraman in the mirror there cool sounds
Hallelujah praise the Lord!
Love it! 🙂
Transforming chaos into beauty, non-stop, feels like life, love this :)
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 track and performance.
Very very impressive and beautiful.
Great piece! I love the choir mixed with the arpeggios and the droning bass - it works fantastically well!
I like how she propped up her synths with old books. Great staging!
Jesus, this is extraordinary.
AMAZING, Just amazing
Congratulations Hélène your art inspires me ... your music is breathtaking!
I waited nine minutes for the beat to drop. These were some stunningly beautiful nine minutes.
The housemaid is fired !!!😋 Nice piece of music.😎
Stunning.
No words, yet speaks volumes to my soul.
Haunting work to shatter ones core.
I love your frequency Hèléna!
reminds me somewhat of different trains by steve reich. I like it!
I feel this. Deeply.
very phillip glass vibes here. its a nice reference
Glassworks vibes
@@mykeptyson9177 but better
@@sinestesianestesia9079 Far trippier! Stratosphere time.
When buying synthesizers is priority than furniture. #facts
This is simply awesome ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤epic
amazing!! thank you!!
I love absolutely everything about this. Wow.
Fantastic performance.
Wish she lived in my town.
Would love to buy her lunch, and talk about music.
Almost made me cry!
I ❤ this Piece. I put it on last night, and it helped fall asleep.
Hi Helene,
these old books, the broken mirrors, the velvet chair, the old leather suitcases, this place is amazing, it´s a place of great inspiration.
This rooms and the "aura" of this building are stunning!!!
B.t.w. a big shout out to Chalisk Pito for the gentle camerawork, witch brings you in the best light.
Your work is a big pice of art!!!
Keep on doing such wonderfull things!!!
(-_-) Joe (-_-)