duo pantoMorf - improvisation

duo pantoMorf is a Swedish electronic free impro duo and a research project. Beginning in 2006, they have actively developed new ways of controlling electronic sound. The video shows an improvisation on two instances of the instrument "the expressure pad", which has become their main performance instrument. Based on a completely novel way of mapping gesture to sound, it allows enormous timberal flexibility and expressive fingertip control at the same time. Both members have a background as musicians on traditional instruments, and this duo is a results of their efforts in bringing back musicianship into electronic music, that is, to be able to play electronic sounds as directly as acoustic instruments. One dogm is: If we lift our hands, the instrument goes quiet. That means, there are no pre-programmed processes, and every sound nuance corresponds to a physical gesture from the musician.

duo pantoMorf have performed in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, USA and Canada. Further tours are planned, for Portugal (October 2009) and USA (March 2010).

Left: Palle Dahlstedt
Right: Per Anders Nilsson

Video produced by Anders Bryngel - see http://www.youtube.com/user/waddagoodfilm for more by him!

http://myspace.com/pantomorf

A technical paper on this family of instruments can be found here: http://www.init.ituniv.se/~palle/publications/Dahlstedt2008_CMMR_DynamicMappi...

Thanks to the University of Gothenburg, the Swedish Research Council and Clavia/Nord.

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Music

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• duo
• pantomorf
• free
• improvisation
• palle
• dahlstedt
• per
• anders
• nilsson
• electronic
• music
• mapping
• synthesis
• synth
• clavia
• nord
• modular
• nordmodular
• g2
• trigger
• finger
• triggerfinger

[xawesomexelix]

I wonder who's winning....

[simonlarsson96]

aaarrgghhh, you're driving me crazyyyyy!!

/simon-.-

[jla362]

Vaya mierda de video / What a shitty video !!!

[abmendoza1]

@dimitrisgloubos sounds like aliens music to me, things that i dont understand. lol.

[kayozz13]

erotic

[simulacreant]

Awesome. An invigorating and exciting way to explore vast timbral spaces.

[dimitrisgloubos]

what is this??? retarded ppl trying to make music? or is there a hidden meaning that i dont get?

for me this is called sound polution.

[Pajes01]

Is this Battleship for special people?

[MouthfullUK]

AWESOME !

[cameron5235]

This is Reeves and Mortimer's "Talc and Turnips" for the digital age.

[EnglishBobTheDog]

Well I like it!