MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, November 6, 2009

Friday, November 06, 2009

The show that never was

flickr by circuitflow

KORG MS20 and Yamaha Tenori-On

Ichabod Pumpkin

via Sarah

"So Halloween came and I was inspired by both Ichabod and my love for The Smashing Pumpkins... This was the result."

Awesome.

CAN

YouTube via arsdivina "UVC video from 1983"

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo + Sandin Image Processor - Kyle Evans

YouTube via yakthekyle

"mprovising with my electronic didgeridoo and processing the image with a "Dan Sandin Image Processor" a VERY rare modular style video processor.

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo:"

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo Kyle Evans

YouTube via yakthekyle previously posted

"Electronically Modified Didgeridoo Kyle Evans

I created this instrument to experiment in the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of modern computer programming and sound synthesis. This custom built didgeridoo features externally mounted modules that allow the performer to process and manipulate the sound of the instrument in real time. All control data is transmitted wirelessly via blue tooth and is controlling several audio processes created in a custom-built software environment. If you have any questions about the instrument please feel free to ask.

http://www.myspace.com/kyleevansmusic

http://yaktronix.blogspot.com/"

MOOGIST: "Voyager Talk"

YouTube via timtsang3. more
"Using Moog Voyager to process audio track with additional sounds. plays like a turntable.

www.moogist.com
moogist(thatthing)gmail.com
11/06/2009"

drone demo

YouTube via bluelantern320. bluelantern on Ebay
"This is a modern machine I built for myself. It is what is called a drone Machine. But in this case it is more like an Extreme Sound Lab. It has 2 VCO's, (1) LFO, One Oberkonn VCF, and (1) Envelope Generator. There is a Volume out to control the big analog sound. I was influenced watching the Grendel Drone synths and figured I can build something with a little more power and features."

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Dr. Rex Loop Player LFO

YouTube via ProAudioDVDs
"This is an excerpt from a full length DVD available at www.ProAudioDVDs.com. Host David Wills has toured with major artists such as Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Chicago and Diana Ross and provides you with a professional's perspective but always demonstrated in an informal, easy to understand way."

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Subtractor LFO tricks

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Thor Step Sequencer

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Matrix with Subtractor

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 RPG-8 Arpeggiator with Malstrom

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Cool LFO Tricks Dr REX

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Thor Step Sequencer Automation

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Combinator with Thor

TNR-O (TENORI-ON) @ 2009楽器フェア Rock oNレポート！

YouTube via RockoNCompany
"2009楽器フェアでYAMAHA TNR-O (TENORI-ON)を取材しました。これまでのTENORI-ON (TNR-W)は、TENORI-ON Web shopでしか買えなかったのですが、この白いTNR-Oは12月からRock oNでも購入可能です！"

Googlish:
"Instrument Fair 2009 YAMAHA TNR-O (TENORI-ON) was interviewed. Far TENORI-ON (TNR-W) is, TENORI-ON Web shop but I could not afford, and this white is from December TNR-O can be purchased at Rock oN!"

Cwejman CTG-VC

via sequencer.de

"Looks like Cwejman has a new envelope generator module. And in fact there are not so many complex envelope modules out there, so here is the CTG-VC, all stages are controlled by voltage on this one. Wowa!"

The Harvestman: Stillson Hammer

flickr by Analogue Haven

"The Stillson Hammer by The Harvestman is a "burst generator" type module. Shown here is the latest incarnation the manufacturer is working on. A working prototype will be shown at NAMM and the module's release date will follow shortly thereafter. We will post more info here as we have it. LINK."

http://analoguehaven.com

interface & sound device experiments

flickr by ACONICA
(click for more)

"Here you will find some experiments in our lab working on a new device. Everything is made from scratch."

untitled

flickr by perfect.tommy

Moog Voyager RME

Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration

Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration from Unearthed Music on Vimeo.

"This video illustrates a sound art performance application that I’m developing in MaxMSP. The control is handled with TouchOSC on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Thanks to Joshua Clos for help shooting the video."

nexus demo1

YouTube via bluelantern320. via this auction

"This was one of my first designs, this is more then 2 years old and can still blow away alot of synths out there as far as fatness. It has 3 VCO's, 2 LFO's, 2 envelopes. I did not know how to do portamento yet in those days. This can do unique Noise to VCO FM modulation. Here it in this demo near the end."

nexus tweaking

"This is to show you what you can do as a noise box, no keyboard is used. This is all knob tweaking."

via this auction

"designed about 2 years ago. I no longer use this poor fellow and would like to sell it to someone just starting to gather gear or whatever.
I only made 4 of these. 2 are in the USA the others are in Europe. This does Fat really well.
The tracking on the vco's is good enough for bass and leads. If you expect MOTM level tracking then this is not for you. It starts to get noticeable in the higher frequencies, detuning starts to happen.
There are 3 VCO's and one of them can mix ramp and square at the same time on the mixer.

It is 12v bipolar internal power supply based. I have a 9v AC wall adapter that is included. You have to use 9V ac, anything higher will make the inside get hot. The power supply is based off an old doepfer design.

Specs:
3 VCO's, 2 have ramp only, 1 has ramp and square.
2 LFO's-triangle, ramp, saw, square wave.
2 attack/release generators with repeat.
(1) vca
(1) sour LM13700 based Filter.
(1) onboard midi to cv converter.

This is very comparable to the MFOS Soundlab first generation."

Deadly Virus - Ableton Live, Battery, Kontakt, microKORG

YouTube via ZeroGravityBoots
"Here is a project I have been recently trying to finish. I used a Ableton Live, Battery for drums, Kontakt Orchestra and Korg microKORG.
Enjoy it :)"

Tristan Perich: bitforms gallery show ends Saturday

"bitforms gallery's solo exhibition for the American composer Tristan Perich ends tomorrow (Saturday, November 7). Featuring recent drawings and video work, the show includes a preview of Perich's upcoming electronic album, 1-Bit Symphony.
Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony
October 28 - November 7, 2009
bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St, 2nd floor
Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Tue–Sat. Free and open to the public."

" BITFORMS PRESENTS TRISTAN PERICH'S 1-BIT SYMPHONY
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition and benefit concert for the American composer Tristan Perich. Featuring recent drawings and a video installation, the exhibition will also include a preview of 1-Bit Symphony, his second handmade album on Cantaloupe Music (forthcoming Spring 2010).
A departure from traditional recordings, 1-Bit Symphony literally ‘performs' its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and packaged into a standard CD jewel case—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. The layered tones in its score are synthesized by binary pulses of electricity, emphasizing the physical quality of sound.
"I'm interested in the foundations of computation and data," says Perich. By reducing sound into primary units of digital measure, Perich's musical compositions offer critique to over production and recording, as well as proprietary formats of distribution. Rather than use data to produce a representation of analog phenomena, raw electrical pulses in these works create pitch and rhythm when played through a speaker—creating music that is, at its essence, electronic. Deliberately compact, Perich organizes melodic signal into minimal constructions. Fundamental to this craft are chains of information that can be read as on/off switches, which reference early theoretical study of computation in the 1930s by mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. "For me, a one or a zero is just that, and is represented in a microchip by the presence or absence of electrical charge", says Perich. "This patterned electricity is connected directly to a speaker or electron gun in a television, turning it on and off, thus creating sound or light."
Perich's visual compositions also explore texture, noise and order using recursive logic. Woven from geometric structures, his drawings contain layers of choreographed linear repetition. Executed with a machine, line in these images gives way to densely packed surfaces and planes.
bitforms gallery
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor
Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Tue–Sat. Free and open to the public
212-366-6939
info(that thing)bitforms.com
http://www.bitforms.com
Tristan Perich
mail(that thing)tristanperich.com
http://www.tristanperich.com
http://www.1bitsymphony.com"

Mr. Braska and an Ultimate Percussion module

via synth-diy were you'll find more shots of Mr. Brasky at tigrics' studio.

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Overview, How to Use

'Dance' uit de jaren vijftig

'Dance' uit de jaren vijftig from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

"Elektronische (dance)muziek is niet typisch iets van deze tijd. Het is eigenlijk in de jaren vijftig ontstaan in het natuurkundig laboratorium van Philips, het Natlab.

In het lab werden - zonder computer - allerlei elektronische geluidseffecten gecomponeerd en geproduceerd. Niemand kon toen nog vermoeden dat die geluiden ooit zouden leiden tot wat nu dance- en housemuziek is. Dat culturele erfgoed is vastgelegd op een serie cd's die deze week verschijnt. Moderne dj's dwepen er mee."

Googlish:
"Electronic (dance) music is not something typical of this time. It is actually in the fifties created in the physics laboratory of Philips, the Natlab.

In the lab were - without a computer - all composed and produced electronic sound. No one could then suspect that the sounds could ever lead to what dance and house music. This cultural heritage is recorded on a series of CDs this week appears. Modern DJs infatuated with it."

via BS-1
http://www.bs-1.nl
http://www.myspace.com/bs1electro

Electro-Dziska

Electro-Dziska from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

"Electro-Dziska is a film about street sounds and future technologies in electronic music.
A music documentary about the creative process of one of the oldest forms of electronic /dance music known as "electro", some of the artist who produce it (who visited or live the city of Miami) and their music influences."

via BS-1
http://www.bs-1.nl
http://www.myspace.com/bs1electro

Universal Techno

Universal Techno (Part 1) from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

"Arte documentary about (Detroit) Techno."

Universal Techno (Part 2) from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

via BS-1
http://www.bs-1.nl
http://www.myspace.com/bs1electro

Moog minitmoog

via this auction

mini KORG 700

via this auction

"rare Korg mini 700 this was the first synth released buy korg. Its an awsome sounding quirky mono synth! this one is in reasonable condition considering its 34 years old!!"

2009/11/07 live set

YouTube via gaki3104
Ableton live7.
AKAI APC40.
KORG KAOSS PAD3.

XR-NoizBox II

YouTube via denha
"New type Drum-Synth.
Added an automatic repeat function."

Roland JSQ 60 demo

YouTube via se7ense7
"It seems a little buggy, but at the end it does what it's designed for: recording sequences of the Juno 60 synthesizer.

I do 1,2 or 4 bar loops, and then I overdubbed them.

Not any musical statement here, just making a very simple video of the JSQ60."

Jeez Louise - Keyboard FX

YouTube via JeezLouise666
"A demonstration of how to combine Synthesizers with analog guitar effects."

アイノウタ Take1

YouTube via cattycol
"オリジナル曲です。09.10.11のライブリハの様子です。
場所は大阪のSynthesizer ＆ Gallery spaceのimplant4さんにお借りしました。
http://www.implant4.com/"

Stephen Jones and the Modular Synthesizer

via tumblr

"SMJ and Ichabod, a modular synth. for giggles."

Original image below from this post.

http://redmartian.com

Metasonix TM-3 modular synth oscillator

via this auction
"Up for sale is a TM-3, the dual oscillator module by Metasonix made from old, old vacuum tubes and Eric Barbors unrelenting rage... These are not made anymore, to get these oscillators now you have to get a whole Wretch Machine, which runs $2900. I'm going to miss this in a way though, because it has a MIDI INPUT. It has CV inputs to, but sometimes midi is seductively convenient (admit it analog fans!) The Wretch, alas, can't be controller via midi.... I also sent this to Eric Baurbor in January of this year to give it it's "physical", he checked it out, recalibrated it and stuck a sticker on the back that confirms this.

The sticker also says "Your music still sucks." although he was sending it to me, so obviously that was directed at me and does not apply to you."

Sold For: US $535.00

via selectivepressure in the comments