Pulsar Hexerei

Pulsar Hexerei is an improvised versioning of Rawlinson’s Pulsar Retcon release (Superpang SP63), and explores buffer scratching, corpus scrubbing and waveform scuffing of material sourced from the New Pulsar Generator (nuPg). Samples from nuPg improvisations have been analysed in a variety of ways using the Fluid Corpus Manipulation (FluCoMa) toolkit to allow for agile polyphonic and gestural exploration and expression using multitouch controllers. In this way there’s a retroactive injection of the sound and morphology of pulsar synthesis into a continued practice of working with sampled material in real-time in ways that are influenced by both early tape and electronic works and modern turntablism to make connections between sound objects and embodied technique.