Why and how to play Buchla 200e live?
Workshop with Tami X at Modular Moon Amsterdam!
Date: 17.05.2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Tickets fee: 15 Euro + 9 % VAT (free entry for Modular Moon students)
About TamiX:
tamiX is a professional artist of improvisational electronic live
music in the Buchla 200e system. Out of love for Don Buchla and the
musical instruments he invented, tamiX performs exclusively on Buchla.
No computers, no external sequencers, no drum machines, no MIDI
connections, no samples.
tamiX is coming all the way from Beijing, China, and is bringing along
her massive 18+2 panels Buchla system for this workshop. She will
reveal why and how she uses the Buchla 200e system in her live
performance and present a deep demo on how to make the most iconic sound applied in a live performance setting.
Tami X Bio in short:
Buchla improv performer
Visual artist
Photo idol
Skate coach
Founder of Midifan.com
Organizer of Modular Commune
Full bio:
tamiX, a professional artist of improvisational electronic live music
and visual arts, refusing to perform with computer programs or
software, specializes in unprepared visual creativity, and music
performance with standalone gear to demonstrate physically natural
effects as atmosphere changes likewise. As Buchla & Eventide endorsed artist, with Buchla 200e modular synthesizer system, her live improvisation has created an impressively unique mode filled audiences with experimentally rhyming tunes.
To be affected by the distinctive glamour of tamiX, audiences should
be in the live show, which is also the reason why tamiX barely
released any record. As an electronic musician skilled in
improvisation, compared with playing on the traditional music
platforms, tamiX chose streaming video on YouTube instead, the leading medium in China and beyond the sea separately where audiences can watch all of her live show videos.
In the year 2022, tamiX released her first melodic techno album ‘X New Year’ on the renowned Detroit Underground label. The release was followed by full-length live set video, a 44 pages photo book and a customized USB sticker as a Special Collector Edition.
During May and July 2023, tamiX embarked on her first-ever multi-city tour in China, including performances at Blip in Chengdu, Wufeng
Garden in Suzhou, System & Abyss in Shanghai, Club Between & SD
Livehouse in Guangzhou, Loopy in Hangzhou and Oil in Shenzhen.
Following this, tamiX kicked off her first global tour covering the
United States and Japan before the end of 2023.
tamiX also did the world's first Buchla improv modular live set in
Dolby Atmos. Hundreds of people surrounded by over ten monitor
speakers, enjoyed the Buchla live music in Dolby Atmos. The live
recordings “tamiX in Atmos (Prologue)” released as the spatial audio
on Apple Music.
As a very unusual artist in China who creates visual arts with
eurorack video modular synthesizer, vector arts with eurorack audio
modular synthesizer, psychedelic light show with the work of nature,
glitch arts with DIY gears, tamiX is an avant-garde showing distinct
arts.
Given the great affection for ACG culture, being the founder of
Midifan, a music tech portal leading thousands of Chinese people to
the industry, meanwhile, the co-producer of several official albums
for Hatsune Miku, tamiX loves skateboarding and she is a skateboard
coach as well.
tamiX, who likes taking photographs, is also a photo idol and her
series of individual albums containing different styles are on sale on
her website.
Links:
Homepage: https://tamix.live/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tamiX-tamiX
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tXftOnVPyeRFV6e63C2eY
Bandcamp: https://tamix.bandcamp.com/
Visual arts: https://tamix.artstation.com/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/tamix
Supporting me on Patreon with daily updated exclusive contents:
https://www.patreon.com/tamiX
YOUR PURCHASE RECEIPT IS YOUR TICKET! SHOW IT AT THE ENTRY TO THE WORKSHOP.