Makenoiserecords.com Website Review

The Shared System Series compiles the separate recordings of several artists utilizing the same electronic musical instrument, the Shared System. At times it feels as though electronic music has become an overly automated form driven by simplified genre specific apps and software. What happens when the signal path is not pre-defined or optimized for a popular result? The Shared System is a modular synthesizer developed by Make Noise. It has no pre-determined signal path, and is not designed for any particular musical destination. In limiting the artists to this one instrument, we hope the Shared System Series of records will purely illustrate the intentions of the High quality master lacquers were made by SAE Mastering, and shipped to URP for pressing. The result is a high fidelity 7” record. Like the Shared System instrument, the sleeves for these records are a combination of digital and an*log technology. They are designed using computer software and printed using a hand-cranked letterpress called the Vandercook 4. Recorded in artist’s home in Los Angeles, January 2017. Instrument: Custom Make Noise System Tracks performed and recorded live without the use of overdubs. This was prepared for by performing the pieces several times live as two movements. Very few patch connections were changed between the tracks “Endo” and “Exo”. Both pieces use a largely identical patch, Recorded in artist’s studio in Los Angeles, July, 2016. Instrument: Custom Make Noise System Division of Trust is dedicated to Virginia Pulido 1923-1995. Division of Trust EP is comprised of two individual live performances recorded in a single take without any multi-tracking, as with all This process is vital to the dynamics and emotional movement of the music, so that each piece reflects a particular moment, even its Recorded in Summer of 2015. Instrument: Make Noise Shared System Alessandro Cortini returned to his Make Noise Shared System modular synthesizer last summer, to create two variations of a patch that