Rick Franecki will create his first post at EC soon!

10/15/2018

Frank

10/22/2018 04:22:21

Welcome! Looking forward to hear your music and reading about the modules you use.

Lumen K

11/1/2018 19:37:15

Great description of this module. You really entice your reader to check it out. I am also green with envy that you have experience with Buchla gear.

4/29/2019 14:25:43

I found this quite fascinating to read. I was fortunate enough to know briefly an early Canadian pioneer electronic composer: Terry Rusling. I doubt anyone has heard of him. He was an uncle of my high school friend and collaborator. He started doing electronic music at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, where he was a radio engineer. At the time there was an on staff composer who got him accepted into University of Toronto's electronic music studio which featured many of the Canadian electronic pioneer who designed many early electronic instruments. Among the composers/musicians who studied there were: R. Murray Schaeffer, Pauline Oliveros, Jon Hassell, Lowell Cross, John Mills-Cockell (Syrinx), et al.

Rick Franecki

Where to start? I became involved with the cassette culture phenomena in the early '80's, around 1983 or so. It's amazing what myself and other were able to accomplish BEFORE the internet and home computers! I swapped cassettes and made contact with HUNDREDS of people. Hal McGee was one of the first people I got to know through the mail network.

Since I was a teenager, I've had an interest in experimental sounds and music, I have always been attracted to things outside the mainstream.
I've also always liked hard rock, and a lot of what I've done has been an attempt to fuse the two, not always very successfully.

I was in a band in the late 70's-early 80's called The Drag, sort of a Stooges/MC5 type of thing. I also, for a time, was in a punk band called The Shemps.
All of that led to two bands I'm currently involved with, F/i and Vocokesh, the latter being my main concern as of this writing.
Both are vocal-less instrumental spaced out jams bands, Vocokesh, in my opinion, being the more experimental ensemble. I also am heavily involved in electronic music, my interests are in the free form atonal realm.

I'm at work on a Eurorack modular system. I also own a small collection of Buchla 200e modules.

I very much enjoy communication, and welcome feedback and conversation with anyone with similar interests!

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