Biografia
Modulator ESP produces improvised experimental soundscapes using synthesizers, sampling, sequencing, looping and processing to create strange worlds of sound somewhere between '70s space music, noise and dark ambient drone. He produces a fortnightly show at electro-music.com called Adventures In Sound Jez is also a member of Astrogator, Cerberus and Quadra and
does stuff for Awakenings , Neusonik and the Hampshire Jam 'Jam' n some ways it could be said that my music seems to have devolved rather than evolved. Or maybe it's just evolved backwards. When I started out making EM it was more in the Andy Pickford/ Mark Shreeve, lots of layers, very composed sort of style. This was a sort of side project that I indulged in between being in more prog/ rock oriented band projects (see above). It was never really something I could do live so that was never a consideration.
I finally decided to go it alone a couple of years ago and quit the band I was in at the time. I had also recently discovered that there was more to EM than TD, Jarre, Pickford and Shreeve and discovered bands like Arc, RMI, Redshift, Airsculpture, Arcane, STDM etc that were doing a more retro-styled improvisational take on EM, which came as quite a revelation to me, as one of the reasons I'd left the band I was in was that I was tired of the endless rehearsals and want to do something a bit more freeform. I knew I still really wanted to play live and I also knew I didn't want to play along to pre-programmed, structured backing tracks, so my original style was definitely out.
Also around this time I discovered the Arturia Moog Modular V (a software emulation of the old Moog Modular IIIc as used live by bands like Tangerine Dream in the mid to late seventies and nowadays by Redshift) and found that I loved playing with the sequencer on it. I only had the demo, but I liked it so much I went off to my local store to purchase a copy. When I got there I found that a friend who I'd recently shown it to had only just been in and bought the last copy, so I ended up with a Nord Micro Modular (a hardware emulation of a modular synth) instead.
Things started to snowball from there; especially once I started to get to grips with the Micro Modular's step sequencers. Next up was a Doepfer Regelwerk (hardware analog step sequencer), a Line 6 Echo Pro (delay processor) then a full Nord Modular Keyboard. I got a Doepfer MAQ16/3 (hardware analog step sequencer) earlier this year and finally integrated it into my setup only recently and am still getting to grips with it. A P3 is lined up for later this year :)
I got into playing synths because I loved the electronic/ synthetic other worldly nature of the sounds so Ambient/ Berlin School EM is probably the best style for me. I'll probably stick with it, but hopefully stretch the boundaries a little as I get more proficient and incorporate some more of my progressive influences.
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