Blush Response

"Nowadays my setup consists of a giant eurorack modular (8 rows @104 hp, ever growing and changing), Waldorf Micro Q Keyboard, Kawai K5000s, Elektron Octatrack, Analog RYTM, and Digitakt, and a revolving door of other little things that come in and out."

(youtube link description) Earlier this month, industrial techno artist Blush Response dropped by the KOMA Elektronik studio combining his live eurorack rig with our prototype Komplex sequencer and other gear.

In the CDM Create Digital Music article by Peter Kirn, a photo reveals Blush Response using the Mutable Instruments Yarns, visible at the lower left side of the setup.

"The oscillator is an Intellijel Shapeshifter into a WMD synchrodyne into a KOMA SVF-201 A Manhattan Analog VCA on the end being modulated by MATHS. [uh, the module, though everything I do is modulated by maths!] Everything is sequenced by the Komplex sequencer Drums are the [Roland AIRA] TR8 through the [KOMA] FT201"

The oscillator is an Intellijel Shapeshifter into a WMD synchrodyne into a KOMA SVF-201 A Manhattan Analog VCA on the end being modulated by MATHS. [uh, the module, though everything I do is modulated by maths!] Everything is sequenced by the Komplex sequencer Drums are the [Roland AIRA] TR8 through the [KOMA] FT201.

In the article by Peter Kirn on CDM Create Digital Music, Blush Response details their live setup, which includes the Manhattan Analog MA35 VCF/A as part of their modular synthesizer configuration. This module is used alongside an Intellijel Shapeshifter, WMD Synchrodyne, KOMA SVF-201, and is modulated by MATHS, with sequencing handled by the Komplex sequencer. Drums are processed through the Roland AIRA TR8 and KOMA FT201.

"I can sequence CC changes using the midi to cv converter (currently a Vermona QMI) so I can have these evolving sequences that sound like cut up parts you would have done in a computer."

You can notice the DPO ath the left of the modular rig on the lower side of the photo...

You can see BR plays it at 0:39 of this video.

"...on the end being modulated by MATHS. [uh, the module, though everything I do is modulated by maths!]"

You can notice it the first time at 0:33 of this video clip.

The Cwejman AI-2 Audio Interface is on the left-bottom side of the frontal rack...

You can see it at the right bottom side of the rack frontal panel...

Every idea starts with a sound for me. An initial exploration until something excites my ear and I build from that. A good example of this would be AUM SHINRIKYO on my upcoming album for Sonic Groove - INFINITE DENSITY. With that track, I was experimenting with the ring modulator modes on the Mutable Instruments Warps. I was feeding my Make Noise DPO through it and came across the initial sound you hear that starts the track.

In this video, Blush Response talks about the Industrial Music Electronics Piston Honda mkIII defining it as well as his favourite eurorack digital/wavetable oscillator module.

You can clearly notice the SOMA Lyra-8 FX eurorack module in this video starting at 0:11.

You can notice it in this video starting at 0:11, at the right side of the point of view. Doepfer A-119 External Input / Envelope Follower is designed to allow external audio signals to be integrated into the eurorack modular system. It comprises a pre-amp, envelope follower and comparator.

Noise Engineering Cursus Iteratis Percido is a digital oscillator with dynamically animated wavetables. This is the second oscillator module in the Percido line of powerful synth voices (the first one was the Loquelic Iteritas Percido). CIP takes the original Cursus Iteritas and adds the same musical envelope from its predecessor LIP with attenuverter-controlled routing to every knob. With the inclusion of the performance-oriented Master Blaster and CV outputs, CIP is a powerhouse of incredibly versatile synthesis. In this video, Blush Responses make a detailed demos of it.

You can see the Erbe-Verb reverb module by Make Noise starting at 1:07 in this video, on the top right side of the Blush Response eurorack modular system.

In this video, Joey Blush Response gives an enthusiastic testing of the Mutable Instruments Beads, considering it as one of its most favourite eurorack module. The Beads is considered as the successor of the discontinued Clouds, even Mutable Instruments too. Clouds was one of the most diffuse eurorack module about granular synthesis and delay/reverb effects and the Beads is a very improved version of the Clouds.