MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, May 4, 2008

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV Humanoid Woman Search 1981 USSR CCCP Score

YouTube via PlastikOD. If anyone knows what synths Alexey Rybnikov used for this piece and/or in general, feel free to comment.
"Search (Поиск) is another track from Alexey Rybnikov (its from the soundtrack of the russian sci-fi movie "Через тернии к звездам" - Humanoid Woman / To the Stars by Hard Ways from 1981).

The film is like the score absolute great. (despite the fact that i doesn't understand no word of the whole film, because i saw only the restaured russian version ;).

Plot:
A anthropoid woman named niya found barely alive in an abandoned space craft. Brought to earth, she is nursed back to health and memory of her planet Dessa and its ecological collapse. When Niya's benefactor Stepan joins the crew of an environmental rescue mission, she sneaks on board and convinces Stepan to change course. Once they have landed on the planet of Dessa, they begin improving the atmosphere and water while simultaneously struggling against the supporters of an evil dwarf Turan and a creepy biomass that has escaped the laboratory.

A good mix of darker electronic/synth sounds and an harpsichord!

Enjoy!"

Love my synth

YouTube via ownzorz610. "Jam session, Bear with me, its a bit groovy.."

Korg Poly 800 with filter-control-knobs

YouTube via moogfreak. I'm guessing this is the MOOG Slayer Mod.
"Hello. In this video I will show you my selfmodified Korg Poly 800. I have added two knobs for filter-control - one for the cutoff and the other one for the resonance. On the back of the synth you can see a switch, which activates the new knobs. In this video you can see and most important hear how it works. The sequence in the beginning and at the end I have programmed on the Poly 800`s build-in sequencer. In the middle I`ve tried to play "Emerson, Lake & Palmer`s" "Aquatarkus", which Keith Emerson has played on his large Moog Modular. For this sound you need three oscillators per note, so I have done this with the Poly 800`s "chord memory"-function. As you can hear - it works very well. But I`m not as good as Keith. :-) Please excuse the pumping compressor/limiter from my videocam."

Girl Goodbye Home Video 1986

YouTube via Wolfy101. KORG Mono/Poly, Roland JX-8P?
"The the Archives of 1986, a series of video clips of the adventures of Bob and his gang having a blast in 1986. This one is set to the music of Toto's Girl Goodbye."

KORG Mono/Poly

via this auction

Two videos linked in the auction below. Note the videos are not the one for sale.

Tom Sawyer on Korg
YouTube via Wolfy101

The Korg Monopoly (part 1)

The Korg MonoPoly (part 2)

YouTube via AutomaticGainsay

Altair 231

images via this auction
"It was made in USSR at Zhitomir factory "Estradin" in April of 1986. The instrument consists of four main blocks of sound synthesis - Generator, Mixer, Filter and Contour. Synthesis is based on 3 master oscillators (each of them with different parameters of registers) waveform, frequency modulation. There is also a generator of white & pink noise. Low-pass filter with main parameters gives the possibility for keyboard tracking. Portamento adjustment knob is provided. To tune a pitch the tone signal is used (440Hz) It provides a linear input to connect an external sound source to Altair. Output and input sockets are 1/4" jacks." Audio at the aution while it is up.

MOOG Rogue

images via this auction

MOOG Prodigy

images via this auction

Pug U Want Wall Hanging #1

flickr by ms.sad
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Thy holy machines

flickr by pwacher

MOOG Modular Control Outputs

via Aliens Project

E&MM SPECTRUM SYNTHESISER

YouTube via jonsey1976

AnalogSuicide interviews Graham Massey!

YouTube via tarabusch.

Check out the full write-up on AnalogSuicide.

"Filmed at the Echoplex, April 4th in Los Angeles, C.A. - Part One of AnalogSuicide.com's 2-part series with the legendary Graham Massey of 808 State and Sisters Of Transistors! Filmed by Maf Lewis and edited by Tara Busch."

EMS Synthi VCO Boards

via the EMS SYNTHI blog.

Animal vs. Voyager

flickr by the_electrosushi

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AlterEgo by L. D. Terkelsen

"An experiment into the sonorities of my theremin, led to this piece:
An improvised theremin track with chords on two tracks of Jupiter 8, bass from a Voyager and some drums from an 808 and DRM-1. All being played by a Genoqs Octopus synced to Ableton for recording it. Very little editing was done, basicly shortening the track and fading stuff up and down.
The vocal qualities of the theremin is because - ....well actually the truth is that it is really a soprano alien. A totally analogue alien off course."

the future is plastic

YouTube via dbosten
"First clip I ever made, in 1996 or so, using a handheld scanner, Autodesk Animator, etc. Very high-tech! Music by me. The scrolling text is from a 'user's manual to the human brain', made for some art-show. By me."
via Danny:
"It was made in 1996 I think, using a handheld scanner, DeluxePaint running under DOS, Autodesk Animator, and Premiere 4. Some 3dStudio at the end. The music is made with a Roland SH-101 (multitracked), a modified Roland TR-606, a Casio SK1 for pads... and some drumhits. "