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For what it's worth, I have used my Wiard extensively on the
soundtrack of "Stephen King's The Kingdom Hospital", which will begin
to air the first week of March and run for 13 episodes.

What may be interesting is that even though the Wiard sonically
appears in very diverse roles, from sonic abstractions to clarinets,
NONE of the Wiard sounds are played with a keyboard (MIDI or otherwise).

gc

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <
gchang@c...> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I have used my Wiard extensively on the
> soundtrack of "Stephen King's The Kingdom Hospital", which 
will begin
> to air the first week of March and run for 13 episodes.
> 
> What may be interesting is that even though the Wiard 
sonically
> appears in very diverse roles, from sonic abstractions to 
clarinets,
> NONE of the Wiard sounds are played with a keyboard (MIDI or 
otherwise).
> 
> gc

That piques one's curiosity as to what led up to and brought 
about the keyboardless approach?  

May I ask what else was being worked with in terms of 
instruments? Did you decide to make sounds without a 
keyboard and then chose to use the Wiard or conversely chose 
to use the Wiard and found it fit best creating sounds without 
needing a keyboard?

nicholas d. kent
http://www.artskool.biz/jem/ndkent/

> That piques one's curiosity as to what led up to and brought 
> about the keyboardless approach?  

I have a long time keyboardless relationship with synthesizers, dating
back to my studies with Subotnick and the Buchla in the 70's and
several decades of Serge modular, leading up to my present Wiard
system, which has been a very logical progression.  The approach was
not about creating "a sound", but creating musical "gestures".  For
example, instead of creating the sound of violins, one would create
the sound of a string section performing a particular musical moment
in an orchestral score.  To a certain extent, this distinguishes much
of the music created on Buchla-infuenced music systems from the Moog,
Arp, etc. systems, who are more keyboard based.  (Of course, this is a
gerneralization - there are many exceptions).

My Wiard system is controlled by four sequencers 2 Sequantizers, a
Milton and a Doepfer Schaltwerk.  A French Connection aids in
providing a transposing reference.  Add to that the meta-event makers
(Woggle bugs and the noise ring), and you can see that this system has
plenty of fingers....

> 
> May I ask what else was being worked with in terms of 
> instruments? 

The score is realized primarily with Synclavier, Gigastudio, ACID, the
Waldorf Wave, and the Wiard.


Gary

YES! no keyboards
please excuse the " i dont have a tv yall please catch me up " question, 
but is this a stephen king adaptation of the norwegian 'kingdom' ?
ok it has to be , cus on coast to coast am the other night they said it was about ghostsand hospitals
but of course any stephen king could possibly be in the ghost category...anywayss
what a team-up gary hope i can see and hear this someday
matt


Gary Chang <gchang@calarts.edu> wrote:
For what it's worth, I have used my Wiard extensively on the
soundtrack of "Stephen King's The Kingdom Hospital", which will begin
to air the first week of March and run for 13 episodes.

What may be interesting is that even though the Wiard sonically
appears in very diverse roles, from sonic abstractions to clarinets,
NONE of the Wiard sounds are played with a keyboard (MIDI or otherwise).

gc


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