State Music by Laurent Güdel
Laurent Güdel is coming back with a new album, beautifully mastered by Francisco Merino and edited to a vinyl. When approaching this album – I wanted to put aside all the background notes and everything that is the context of the creative process behind it and immerse myself in the actual music. With such models of synthesizers such as Buchla 100, Buchla 200, Serge, you can more or less expect the type of music that will be presented here. But here’s a twist – Laurent leads a master class for us how to creatively use those instruments and steer away from the clichés of the modern electro-acoustic music which is created through tools such as modular systems. His compositions have a unique structure – scintillating way to show how different way of dynamics and being able to create it, sustain it and master it can have a tremendous effect on how to engage the listener. And it worked beautifully. There is no single sound here that is unnecessary – Laurent is truly a virtuoso i...
