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Voltmeister presents: Square Wave

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[Square Wave] Ingmar // Gijs 09:18
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[Square Wave] Goos // Gijs 09:01
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[Square Wave] Casper // Ronald 10:44
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[Square Wave] Ronald // Rikkert 10:30
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[Square Wave] Gregor // Ingmar 10:48
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[Square Wave] Danny // Gijs 10:14
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[Square Wave] Gregor // Gijs 09:37
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[Square Wave] Maarten // Gijs 10:48
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[Square Wave] Thijs // Gijs 06:39
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[Square Wave] Ronald // Gregor 10:32
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In 2019 and 2020 - before the global pandemic hit - we hosted SQUARE WAVE: an open modular synth improvisation meetup. Because we love bringing people together to make and enjoy modular synth music. Throughout the nine editions so far, over twenty different people participated in structured improvisations. Some of them seasoned live performers. Some of them performing for the very first time in their life. This release is a celebration of those wonderful people and events. We thank Fonz and his crew at De Hip for their continuous hospitality and support. We thank all the participants and visitors of the past SQUARE WAVE meetups and look forward to seeing you again soon.

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released June 1, 2021

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Performances by Ingmar Kops, Gijs van Ouwerkerk, Goos Veltman, Casper Koomen, Ronald Wijnands, Rikkert Achtereekte, Gregor Beyerle, Danny Servaes, Maarten Vloon and Thijs Pronk. // Location, PA and bar service by Fonz Scheepstra & Crew at De Hip, Deventer. // Meetups hosted by Rikkert Achtereekte. // Live audio recordings by Danny Servaes. // Mastering by Gregor Beyerle at Dreamcatcher Studio, Brüggen (Germany). // Cover photo by Viorica Cernica.

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Structured improvisation in music is a concept common in jazz and various contemporary styles of music. Inspired by this we conceived a structure that supports the use of modular synthesizers as the primary instruments. The outlines of the SQUARE WAVE improvisation structure are:
- Each edition has 8 participants. This event is aimed at users of modular synthesizers such as Eurorack, Buchla, Serge, MOTM, Moog, etc. Bringing additional electronic or acoustic instruments is allowed. Participants can bring their system both patched and unpatched. Whatever they think is the best / nicest / most convenient / most exciting. A PA system is present. Participants can use mono or stereo out.
- Voltmeister provides a central analog clock and reset signal (quite literally a SQUARE WAVE) to sync the instruments of the participants.
- Through lottery drawing participants are linked together in duos and assigned a tempo (BPM). The tempo will be within the range of 60 - 160 BPM. So fate determines who improvises with whom and what the tempo is.
- Lottery drawing of duos is done by Voltmeister before each round. Lottery drawing of tempo is done by the duo, right before they start their performance.
- There are four rounds of four performances each round. A performance can last a maximum of 10 minutes. Voltmeister will indicate to the performers when the final two minutes have commenced.

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