Watch Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith bring her modular orchestra to life

The electronic composer invites us to her LA home for an intimate performance. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has become one of the most fascinating champions of modular synthesis in recent memory but she didnt start out that way. Raised on Orcas Island in northwest Washington state and classically trained in guitar and piano, Smith spent a curiosityfueled year teaching herself synthesis after a serendipitous encounter with the Buchla Music Easel, an instrument thats come to define her as much as she has defi