Schultze Large Ensemble, Stefan
The Buchla Suite
Squaring the circle may be an impossibility in mathematics, but it certainly works in music. At least that is what the Stefan Schultze Large Ensemble proves with the double CD "The Buchla Suite - A Handcrafted Tribute To Morton Subotnick". The American composer Morton Subotnick worked together with the physicist and instrument maker Donald Buchla in San Francisco from 1963 on. With the modular synthesizer named after Buchla, he recorded the album "Silver Apples To The Moon" in 1967,which is still unmatched in its sonic and structural complexity. In its homage to Subotnick, the Stefan Schultze Large Ensemble does completely without synthesizers. Stefan Schultze is a pianist and producer, but first and foremost a composer. Like Subotnick, he is also a sound inventor himself. All parts of the Buchla Suite were penned by him. "The challenge is to set up the ensemble like ten oscillators," Schultze says. "We try to sound like a synthesizer."