::: controlvoltage.org ::: Roberto Raineri-Seith's WUR electromusic project site :::





About		25 years of studio and live electronics controlvoltage.org sums up my '80s experiences with the electronic music project WUR [the name is the german translation of Capek's drama "Rossum's Universal Robots"] and the attempt to translate into sound the futuristic and technocratic vision of a man > machine evolution. Audio productions were related to art video productions, or conceived as ambients for art exhibitions or as sound installations. WUR was influenced by the "industrial-techno" scene, but also from contemporary and avantgarde music composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio or Luigi Nono and from the "live electronic" improvisations of the '70s. Beside composing i also lectured and directed workshops on the analog electronic music medium and from 1981 to 1991 was art director of the electronic and contemporary music festival "L'Altro Suono", featuring the then most representative swiss avantgarde groups and musicians like Unknownmix, Nachtluft, Ernst Thoma, Andres Bosshard, Voice Crack (Norbert Moslang) and Stephan Wittwer. :::

Productions		WUR releases, 1984 - 1994 "Lob der Grausamkeit", C18, Calypso Now & ADN Records, 1984; "Lacrimae Christi", soundtrack for a video by Lorenzo Bianda about the swiss artist Mario Comensoli, 1986; "Stahlruinen", C26, ADN Records, 1986; "Kn", ambients for an installation of swiss artist Franco Lafranca, 1987; "Memorie Magnetiche 1>4", C40, ADN Records, 1987; "Natalis Solis Invicti", mixed-media performance at Locarno high school, 1989; "Induratio Penis Plastica", live electronics at the happening "Obliquo in tenda", Locarno, 1989; "Klarismus", ambients for an exhibition of swiss artists Daniel Maillet, Gianmario Togni and Massimo Verzasconi at Museo Elisarion Minusio, 1990. "Chant/Höhenstille" for flute and ring modulator, Theatre of the Italian Embassy in Locarno, 1990; "Figurazioni siderali 1>9", for tape and ring modulator, at "L'Altro Suono 2" festival, Locarno, 1991; "All'inferno non bruciano", mixed-media performance, slaughterhouse of Locarno, 1991; "Analog Technodelia, for tape and live electronics, at "Sabbione '94", Val Bavona, 1994; "Kindertotenstimmen" for tape and ring modulator, art gallery SUBS, Locarno, 1994. :::

Technical		The past and the future My first home-studio was equipped with a small Roland Studio 100 M modular system, a OSCar monosynth and a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a 8-track mixing console and a double-speed 4 track cassette tape recorder (both from Tascam), a Revox 2-track machine for the final mix and some digital effect processors. As second hand analog synths became available at very low prices in the late '80s, a lot of wonderful sounding machines were added: up to 5 Minimoogs, a SCI Prophet-5, a EMS AKS, a Oberheim 4-Voice, a Yamaha CS-80, a PPG Wave 2.3 and a larger Roland System 100-M (20 modules). In 1989, Ernst Thoma of Unknownmix, a very talented swiss avantgarde sound designer, composer and performer, also provided a small custom Serge Modular clone. Digital equipment is still used only for recording and sound processing / editing purposes. Currently, Synthesizers.com. Mos-Lab, Analogue Systems and newer Moog equipment represents the main sound source, the purchase of a small Serge Modular system is also planned. :::

Related		Recommended links Ernst Thoma Sounddesign 10111.org Serge modular system Synthesizers.com modular system Mos-Lab Modular System Buchla Synthesizers Analogue Systems Luciano Berio's CTR EMS Rehberg Karlheinz Stockhausen IRCAM Paris Swiss Synthesizer Meeting Synthesizerstudio Bonn 1971-1999 Anafrog, a french forum on analog synthesis [more to come...] :::

Contact		Contact Roberto Raineri-Seith P.O. Box 404 CH-6601 Locarno Switzerland Fix phone: 0041 [0]91 7910324 Mobile phone: 0041 [0]79 4031600 Email: clockdva [at] bluewin.ch


		Photographs © 1984 - 2010 Roberto Raineri-Seith ¬ Prolitteris