Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - In The Studio
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- The electronic composer invites us to her LA home for an intimate performance.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has become one of the most fascinating champions of modular synthesis in recent memory - but she didn’t start out that way.
Raised on Orcas Island in northwest Washington state and classically trained in guitar and piano, Smith spent a curiosity-fueled year teaching herself synthesis after a serendipitous encounter with the Buchla Music Easel, an instrument that’s come to define her as much as she has defined it.
Her explorations in synthesis reach an apex on her stunning new album EARS, out April 1 on Western Vinyl, blending woodwind and her own vocals with the primordial sounds of the Buchla to make her most definitive statement yet.
After recently relocating to Los Angeles, Smith invited FACT to her home studio where she showed us the different synthesizer voices used to create her modular symphonies before churning them together in a spontaneous improvisation.
The intimate home performance serves as a taster for her show on April 1 at Rewire Festival in the Hague, Netherlands, where she’ll play the city’s Lutheran Church with Chris Watson and Kara-Lis Coverdale + MFO.
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I would be quite delighted if there was a 'director's cut' of this; say 90 minutes or 2 hours long or so.
Her neighbor lent her a complete modular set up for a year, all my my neighbor has to offer is 40 cats
+Morgan Huggins sounds like something else happened in that barn...
And not just any synth either, a complete buchla system is about 24k. Some people are just lucky I guess
+NAW DAWG what the fuck are you talking about idiot
LOL
I need to get some better neighbors
This is the most coherently I've ever heard someone talk about modular synthesisers.
Sure sure, simp
Nice.
It's good to enjoy things and people who attempt to put that down are merely showing themselves to be simpletons.
:-)
@@youtubethrowaway9324 I love how any mere relation or interaction with a woman is now deemed SIMPING loll
@@JahmBProducts holy shit, you think the word "simpletons" came from the term simping?!
Our education system is actually sad.
My mind is imploding right now
Imagine your neighbor just walking up and being like, hey, want a Buchla?
Pro tip: if a neighbour says "follow me to my barn" there usually isn't a Bucchla in there, and you should probably never go back to their house
Note that she was helping him first. Lesson right there.
The last time that happened to me I woke up in an alley and one of my kidneys was stolen.
PussyPower
I love this channel, so inspiring to see other women into synths, also these interviews are refreshingly open and about sharing. Not ego. This is what I love to see!
There are so many people who get into modular synthesis as a kind of novelty but there are not so many who really stick with it and get interesting results.
This is amazing. She is amazing! And, having grown up in Washington state, I just lit up with a big smile when she mentioned Orcas Island. What a place to get inspired and learn new things!
Thank you for taking time to make this. It is a mysterious world!
So organic, so artistic, so beautiful!
I have been recommending her work to everyone I know... Amazing musician...
Suzanne Ciani's legacy is intact with you. Amazing performance!
I had the same thought
San Juan’s in the house! So great to see a local woman doing well in the electronic music world!
What a dream woman! What a dream studio! I want to move there..
@@kentsparling8222 I think your comment is a bit over the top.. what´s wrong with him expressing that he likes her from what he sees from this video? Sure it may not be her entire personality, but it wasn´t meant "to reduce her" either. Literally the whole music artist/fan relationship would be "incredibly disrespectful" then, and while I agree that an artist is to an degree always just an image of the fans´ imagination and projections, it´s far from disrespectful, and I think the artists would agree and not be so easily offended like you were. It was just an sponateous expression of admiration, while you made it a problem, and I even made it worse with this long text ;) peace
@@kentsparling8222 oh yeah? on how many levels? Cause I count zero. Whoever is telling you that a man can't express desire for a woman is brainwashing you. Let me guess, whenever a woman says to her friend "OMG, so and so is my dream man" are you going to swoop in on a vine and be like "whoa there, that is disrespectful on soooo many levels, ma'am."
yeah I want a rich wife like her
@@devonhughes3805 Love this comment :)
@@astronomy7911 Thanks! I worry for young men and women today. The bad behavior of some shouldn't ruin the game for all.
All in this video is beautiful. Thanks to share.
its endless possibilities - its a therapy !!
She is amazing...explain her great setup...congrats Aurelia!
Congenial musician and composer, lovely person, extraordinary music.
Totally fascinating. Both her story and her music.
Her music is wonderful.
Awesome! Thank you...
Love all that Make Noise kit, such nice graphics
Awesome....absolutely awesome
Just saw her with Grizzly Bear and she friggin CRUSHED it.
listening/watching this with Bose over-the-ear headphones during lunch break...my work desk has never been so transported
I love how she taught herself how to use everything. Destiny, man. Control voltage is a religion for sure.
True artist.
This was very refreshing.
Simply awesome, very beatiful video
if that little performance was winging it.... ends up being o0ne of my favorite pieces of music
this video got even more magic when some rainbow lights appeared on her face towards the end of the video... beautiful!
I gotta say, some people just have a knack for modular synthesis, and she's definitely one of them. Very good stuff, in the same vein of Alessandro Cortini.
talent?
This is so incredibly amazing!
Rad studio!
that final composition is magical
My neighbour once lent me his lawnmower. It changed my life.
LMAO!
Mine loaned me his old one yesterday, lol.
🤣
Now you are CyberBob
Yes the organic workflow.
She’s brilliant. Amazing
4:46. 👏🏽! Warm, intelligent and finessed! Always a relief to hear synth being used so beautifully.
I'm really hoping that one day I'll be able to do about 2% of what she can do. My synth system is so very different though. At least now I have a Moog Grandmother and it sounds great!
this is so beautiful hits every sense amazing
that was fantastic!!!!
Excellent video! More like this!
Very nicely done, good example of realtime modular composition. Of course, one can only wonder where her musical travels would have gone without the lucky neighbor encounter . . . with original Buchla hardware.
Describing her modular setup . . . "It's still really expensive". Yes it is, definitely out of the reach of most.
it's always beautiful to hear someone who understands harmony play with things
Thank for that beautiful journey.
so many amazings!
Mind Blown!!!!!💥💥💥💥
Very cool ! Thanks for the studio trip ! :)
Too good!❤️
everything about this is awesome. Will def check her album! Thanks Fact
So cool! Great to hear more about your work!
Great Woman, great Studio, great Music 👍
That was so interesting !! Great set-up .
This is just great! Awesome synthesizing!
Just found my way here via a Sarah Davachi interview with Alex MylarMelodies. Moments before I was listening to two oscillators sounding with each other.
P E A C E : )
I Love the music modular and all relacioned this art.
She's soooooooo delightful and really into synths! She's an absolute dream ❤️
big inspiration of mine. you make amazing music. dont stop!
Someone needs to create a eurorack-compatible high-power vacuum cleaner with soft-bristle brush nozzle and long hose for getting between cable spaghetti, deep in keyboard keys and jack sockets; maybe a special nozzle that is a soft brush but when you push down on it a 3.5mm jack sucker protrudes. Venting of dust could also be modular, with choice of bag-compatible module or a hose output for more permanent installations, so you could route dust output -> window. Ideally you'd have a magnetic robotic crawler to keep things dust-free automatically, but I don't want to get too ambitious.
Andrew Quicke LMAO
Also it should have a built in contact mic and be fully CV controllable.
But where would the LFO plug in?
Sounds like a project for 'Look mum no computer' ;)
Are you ok?
Nice film! I like the evidentiary method of interview with a bit of a montage ans she is performing the tune.
As a hobby-guitarist, who has a half-stack in his living room, and also some keyboards, samplers and sound-modules in my home-studio, and just getting interested in modular synthesist, i can relate to the "bleepy bloop style" sounds she's talking about, as that's what it seems that i hear in almost every video, after watching countless of hours of YT content on that topic.. There are hardly ever any full songs.
By now i think that modular synthesis is just here for those people that think a crack- or heroin-addiction has too much impact on their bodies, but rather want to spend all that money (or more) on things that basically go "beep" in different ways.
Then again, next to my house being full of "conventional" music equipment, I shouldn't be talking, i spent over 20k on a telescope, ccd-cameras, filters and mount for doing astrophotography, but because i live in the Netherlands i can use it maybe once or twice a year.. .if even... also a bottomless pit, but at least it keeps me from being able to afford a drug-addiction, despite having a good salary ;)
Amazing xx
5 minutes in, amazed already
Very interesting tool. Exploration of sound scape.... I would love to try it out once. For now, I have my Minibrute ;)
I just ordered a microbrute.
I am exploring modular with my tiny Make Noise 0-coast the affordable way to get west coast synthesis without going broke.
Great !!
All of us are having that Wayne's World _'Dream Weaver'_ scene right now.
Great interview!
I'm going to open a cable shop next to you, this summer I want to go to Hawaii
just get the joke :>
got to love that woman!
I love you Kaitlyn_!
Gotta love this woman!
I fell in love.
Awesome set up...
amazing, beautiful
Nice interview! :-)
Bravo!
She is fantastic
still love it!!
I like this alot
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I'm in love.
I wish i had seen this years ago you are mad awsome!!!!!
Wow!
Very nice...
Fascinating
AMAZEEE
She's my hero!
I think I'm in love
+Dezrt same
Beautiful.
Kaitlyn will be in Australia in two days time.
🙃
muy bueno saludos desde tijuana
NEat!!!1!
Modular synth GRIOT... beautiful
excellent use of modulars!
The blipy bloop
Very cool video.
Great
She is clearly born to do music and in a AVANT GARDE way, the best.
Very nice to see women enter this field, in fact girls are a lot better for IT and electronics, more patience and care.
Keep doing the great job you do.
Wow that’s amazing you’re so lucky
I used to chill up in Orcas island
I'm shocked. How talented...
wow
Amazing lady !! Imagine getting to mess with a Bucla as your first synth ?!?
Moog was my first synth and love it.
The modern Laurie Spiegel she is.
I was thinking about Laurie as well