Gary P Hayes

After my live on Sunday I was inspired by the patch to do a recorded more controlled and better sounding piece – so here it is 32 minutes of lovely modular with rolling DistingEX piano, multiple other eurorack parts and synthy solo tones for your pleasure … the live talk through patch being made here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T21Rv… Modular Scene #8 ‘The Recycle of Life’ Composed & Performed © Gary P Hayes in Mount Victoria, Blue Mountains, Australia Single shot on 4K Zoom Q2n4k, the right screen a pan/scan of left screen zoomed in 2x on FCPx Rack top left to bot right – Behringer CP1-A, Synthrotek M/DIV Clock, 2HP Tune, A-118-2 Random CV, Hikari Analog Sequencer II, 2HP Turing machine, TipTop Quantizer, 2HP LFO, Horstronic Mult, Ornament & Crime Slim, Erica Pico Drum 2, TipTop BD808, Korg NTS1, Intellijel 1U Steppy, Mosaic Quantizer, 2HP Arp, Doepfer A-111-6 Synth, 4MS mult, 2HP Pluck, Klavis Twin Waves, A-124 VCF5 Wasp filter, A145-4 LFO, Disting EX plus alpha, A-138s Mixer My rig on ModularGrid https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/v… My Bandcamp albums https://garyphayes.bandcamp.com/

0:00 Music Curtains 1:34 Music Prologue 25:27 Music Act 1 41:20 Music Act II 1:02:25 Music Act III 1:27:49 Music Act IV 1:41:49 Music Epilogue Intro: One of my all time favourite films which has returned to Public Domain. I also think the imagery speaks for itself so I removed the many text plates that in my view break the flow, the story is not hard to follow and sometimes it is best for the viewer to lose themselves in those images and create their own interpretation. Restored version: Most of this film has been lovingly restored and even enhanced by Martin Koerber, Frank Strobel and Anke Wilkening – there are some moments which look too far gone to restore, but it still flows. The music: I always thought the whole 2 hour film would love a from a more, sci-fi music soundtrack (which has likely been done a few times already), but more driving vs sleepy textural and completely separately I did a live stream 2 hour long improvisation last weekend, on relatively simple equipment – but when I played it alongside the film, it just seemed to gel. OK there are some sections that would benefit from some musical editing, but I really wanted the flow to stay in both the film and music, so you are carried along with it. The equipment here is Analog Four mk2 running sequences and synth sounds including drums, but also sending polyrhythmic and polymetric CV clocks to two other mono sequencers on the rack, controlling the ModelD and Neutron analog synths. When I do lives I have a separate recording too so this is the remastered audio. About the film from Wikipedia : “Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou’s 1925 novel of the same name intentionally written as a treatment, it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €19,000,000 in 2020. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film’s message is encompassed in the final inter-title: “The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart”. Metropolis met a mixed reception upon release. Critics found it visually beautiful and powerful – the film’s art direction by Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, and Karl Vollbrecht draws influence from opera, Bauhaus, Cubist, and Futurist design, along with touches of the Gothic in the scenes in the catacombs, the cathedral and Rotwang’s house – and lauded its complex special effects, but accused its story of being naive. H. G. Wells described the film as “silly”, and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls the story “trite” and its politics “ludicrously simplistic”. The film’s alleged Communist message was also criticized. The film’s long running time also came in for criticism. The film was cut substantially after its German premiere. Many attempts have been made since the 1970s to restore the film. In 1984, Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder released a truncated version with a soundtrack by rock artists including Freddie Mercury, Loverboy, and Adam Ant. In 2001, a new reconstruction of Metropolis was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2008, a damaged print of Lang’s original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. After a long restoration process that required additional materials provided by a print from New Zealand, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010. Metropolis is now widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, ranking 35th in Sight & Sound’s 2012 critics’ poll. In 2001, the film was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, the first film thus distinguished.”SHOW LESS

0:00 Act 1 14:51 Act 2 23:30 Act 3 35:51 Act 4 52:15 Act 5 A remastered version of my live performance on Sunday 19 Sep 2021 (I cut a few mins at the beginning and near middle to fit – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJ2T… ) – the original performance was done ‘wild’ so to speak, but by accident I had both playing when I was remastering the audio, and they worked really well together, so here we are. The silent film from 1927 is Public Domain with credits of course so the opening titles are left in-tact. There is no subtext to this composite beyond the original live being an homage to 1970s vs 1920s Berlin sound, progressive sequential synthesizer. About the film from Wikipedia “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis or Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund. … All of the acts is the theme of the train and streetcar. Much of the motion in the film, and many of the scene transitions, are built around the motion of trains and streetcars…The film is an example of the ‘city symphony’ film genre.[1] It portrays the life of a city, mainly through visual impressions in a semi-documentary style, without the narrative content of more mainstream films, though the sequencing of events can imply a kind of loose theme or impression of the city’s daily life.”

Patch notes Mixer (the two 138s on bot right)

Channels

1 Pluck – CV from Turing Machine quantized by TipTop. Gate from tr2 of Steppy

2 Klavis Osc1 – CV from QuNexus gate from tr1 of Steppy. Each keypress from QuNexus resets the Steppy globally. Also fed through WASP filter

3 Klavis Osc2 – CV from Turing Machine quantized by TipTop.

4 MiniSynth bottom – CV from 2hp ARP. Gate from tr4 of Steppy (with probability)

5 MiniSynth top – Bass, CV from Doepfer Random & quanized by Doepfer dual A156

6 PicoDrum2 – Triggered from tr3 of Steppy

7 110 Synth – CV & gate from Hikari Sequencer & quanized by Doepfer dual A156

8 DIRT Filter – 2hp LFO feeding sweep cvs RACK – two rows of 84HP

TOP LEFT TO RIGHT Power CP1A – 4 HP Synthrotek M/DIV – Dual Clock Multiplier / Divider – 4HP Hikari Analog Sequencer II – 20HP 2hp ARP sequencer – 2HP Doepfer A-156 two channel Quantiser – 8HP Doepfer A-118-2V Random CV / Noise – 4HP Horstronic Buffered Multi – 4HP 2HP LFO – 2HP Doepfer A-145-4 Quad LFO Slim Line – 4HP Behringer 994 mult – 4HP Doepfer A-111-6 Mini Synth – 10HP Erica Pico Drum 2 – 3HP Behringer 110 VCO/VCF/VCA – 16HP MID 1U Intellijel Steppy IU Intellijel Mult 1U

BOTTOM ROW LEFT TO RIGHT Power CP1A – 4 HP Synthrotek M/DIV – Dual Clock Multiplier / Divider – 4HP Doepfer A-118-2 Random CV / Noise – 4HP 2HP Turing machine – 2HP TipTop Audio Quantizer – 10HP 4ms Buff Mult – 4HP 2HP Pluck – 2HP Klavis Twin Waves mk1 – 8HP Doepfer A-124 VCF5 Wasp filter Doepfer A-140-1 ADSR Synthrotek DIRT Filter – 4HP Doepfer A-111-6 Mini Synth – 10HP Doepfer A138s Mixer Mini Stereo – 8HP Doepfer A138s Mixer Mini Stereo – 8HP

BOTTOM SEPARATE UNIT Keith McMillen QuNexus CV Keyboard & Moukey 6 channel stereo into Zoom MS70 then into 4 channel stereo headphone mixer