MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, August 16, 2006


Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Livewire Electronics Breaks off from EAR Group

It's official. Livewire goes solo.

"INTRODUCING LIVEWIRE ELECTRONICS

Livewire Electronics announced today that it has set out on its own and is no longer associated with The EAR Group.

"Demand for Livewire products has grown dramatically over the past six months and I feel we have outgrown the benefit of being part of a collective.", says Livewire owner and EAR Group co-founder, Mike Brown.

'I'm sure that the other companies still associated with EAR will continue to put out excellent products.'

More information about Livewire Electronics and their products can be found on their new website at: http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com.

Inquiries can be sent to:

info[]livewire-synthesizers.com."

Reverence by Audio Damage

Another by Chris of Analog Industries. Title link takes you to images, samples and more info.

Audio Damage
makes top notch products.






» Simple-to-use reverb settings, with pre-delay, time, and size, plus an extensive filtering section to shape the reverb tail

» Fluid and logical vintage-style user interface

» Optimized reverb algorithm for low CPU load

» MIDI Learn feature for full hardware control of all parameters (VST only; handled by host in AudioUnits version)

Roger Odonnell on Sonic State

Podcast and downloadable mp3 on Sonic State.

"We've got a bit of a treat for you all this week - we're talking Roger Odonnell who's been a touring and studio keyboard player since the 1980's where he began by playing with 80's pop sensation The Thompson Twins, then moving on to the Psychedelic Furs and finally a long stint with The Cure.

Roger talks to us about his recent work - including a new album titled "The Truth In Me" which was recorded entirely on the Moog Voyager, his involvement with the new Harmonic Table AXIS controller, the 80's and various thoughts on a number of synths."

Title link takes you there.

Synthesizer Service Vintage Synth Price List

We all know PrePal. Title link takes you to another price list. This one by the Synthesizer Service Center. The prices are in GBP, but you can easily convert them here.

Update: General consensus is that this is not a price list, but a list of what they have in stock. Dealer prices are usually higher so that's obviously something to consider.

Thingamagoop - New Flickr Shot

flickr by gentle bakemono.

"Thingamagoop Conquers the World!"

Hmm... I could see this turning into the gnome in Amelie.

Moog - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Mark Henderson Portfolio.

Sanfrancisco Electronic Music Festival via Brian Comnes

Remember the SFEM? The following are Brian Comnes' notes on the last Friday of the event.

act 1 - Barbara Golden, a big Bay Area name in alternative music came out and read a piece of prose about getting lusty with some now dead poet, allegedly Lenoard Cohen's mentor, and there was a home slide show of her in the 70's with canned bouzuki music - a nice prose spoken word piece, but wierd for the SFEMF is you think about it

Act 2 was Steven Roden, his rig is in the picture I attached and as far as I can tell it is a few guitar delay boxes and some sound sources, harmonicas, slide guitar, and including the wooden peach crate which is apparently rooted in some electronica history , very nicely done piece but it put me to sleep, hardly synth porn..... here is another shot from the sfemf press photos site, hey he's playin a harmonica, not biting his nails.

Act 3 part 1 was a 12 minute set of Risset Tones (Risset tones are based on the work of Roger Shepard in the 1960's and the further developments made later by Jean-Claude Risset, RissetTones is designed to create an acoustical illusion. Perhaps best explained as the aural equivalent of the barber pole, the product of the RissetTones is a gliding tone which seems always to be moving either up or down in pitch while staying in the same general position.) Bottom line is that it was about 9 minutes too long, heck I could have done that with a copy of AudioMulch and 2 mouse clicks, a lot of people were looking at their watched at the 5 minute mark, to top it off I think it was from CD and not genrated live.

Act 3 part 2 piece by Toronto-based James Tenney whose piece which was played back from CD with a live percussion overlay by percussionist William Winant. He showed up with about 80 pieces of kit, including tuned Bundt cake pans, assorted pan lids in addition to a gong, tympani and other more traditional drum stuff but look at that other attched picture and you will see a door bell buzzer (!) in a box that was fileterd by opening and closing the lid, the canned track part seemed to be random synth burps and gee if I had 80 things to bang on I'd like to think I could keep it going, he had some great techniques though with the gong and tympany by rubbing on them with a mic'ed stick of some sort

the best of the evening was before the show .....a multimedia installation at Recombinant Media Labs by Semiconductor....the venue is superb, you are surrrouned by ten 15 foot wide by 8 foot high video screens in a 30X45 foot room and it has 16 channel surround, the video was NASA video and still shots of the sun using the solar energy patterns worked down to audible levels and added harmonics, i.e. the whiter the screen the louder the music, ...its a really cool way to experience solar flares to say the least

also I didn't see it but on Thursday night Brenda Hutchinson was playing this rig"

The Horrorist Korg Legacy MS 20 Soundset

Title link takes you there. I don't have a Korg Legacy, so I couldn't try this out. There were created and sent my way via Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist).
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