We love synthesizers. And string instruments. And even more: the combination of both! Therefore, we have developed a concert program that highlights various aspects and interfaces between synthesizers and strings, makes them audible, and conveys current musical creations. PULSE invites you to an excursion into the sound laboratory: granular delays, sound synthesis, sawtooth oscillations, filtered spectra, ring modulators, harmonies enriched with shimmering octaves. A search for sonic overlaps with analog synths, PULSE thus becomes a human-played sequencer,
a string quartet sonically enhanced with synths and effects pedals. The Synths & Strings concert program features two commissioned compositions by PULSE, linked by the lab-like collaboration with Pablo Garretón. In Judd Greenstein's Octet in 1979, PULSE grows into an octet with Korg Polysix, MOOG, Yamaha, and Roland Juno. All of this takes place in a stage set resembling a laboratory.

 

Program:

Michael Gordon: Clouded Yellow (2010)
Pablo Garretón: Pulsar Waves (2023, Auftrag von PULSE)
Judd Greenstein: Octet 1979 (2011)
Georgia Koumará: We’ll keep on groovin' as long as our feet keep movin’ (2024, Auftrag von PULSE)
Anna Meredith: Tuggemo (2016)

fotos by Lucie Schulze und Christoph Brunkow

Synths and Strings has been presented at:

Konzerthaus Die Glocke Bremen, Alte Feuerwache Köln, BKA Theater Berlin

We love synthesizers. And string instruments. And even more: the combination of both! Therefore, we have developed a concert program that highlights various aspects and interfaces between synthesizers and strings, makes them audible, and conveys current musical creations. PULSE invites you to an excursion into the sound laboratory: granular delays, sound synthesis, sawtooth oscillations, filtered spectra, ring modulators, harmonies enriched with shimmering octaves. A search for sonic overlaps with analog synths, PULSE thus becomes a human-played sequencer,
a string quartet sonically enhanced with synths and effects pedals. The Synths & Strings concert program features two commissioned compositions by PULSE, linked by the lab-like collaboration with Pablo Garretón. In Judd Greenstein's Octet in 1979, PULSE grows into an octet with Korg Polysix, MOOG, Yamaha, and Roland Juno. All of this takes place in a stage set resembling a laboratory.

 

Program:

Michael Gordon: Clouded Yellow (2010)
Pablo Garretón: Pulsar Waves (2023, Auftrag von PULSE)
Judd Greenstein: Octet 1979 (2011)
Georgia Koumará: We’ll keep on groovin' as long as our feet keep movin’ (2024, Auftrag von PULSE)
Anna Meredith: Tuggemo (2016)

fotos by Lucie Schulze und Christoph Brunkow

Synths and Strings has been presented at:

Konzerthaus Die Glocke Bremen, Alte Feuerwache Köln, BKA Theater Berlin