Max Brand - Triptych / Ilian 4

Published on Aug 12, 2015 ozashikiTECHNO

Max Brand
1. Triptych (1970)
2. Ilian 4 (1974)

Compostions with the Max Brand Synthesizer (aka Moogtonium). See the Max Brand channel below for previous posts with more info on this one off synthesizer system including images, video and history.

Setting up Max Brand's Synthesizer

Published on Jan 29, 2014 Noiseconformist

"Clip shot by Eric S. during preparation work on the ukrainian/austrian/american composer's custom Moog synthesizer at the Institute of Media Archaeology in Hainburg/Austria."

Bob Moog Foundation Releases 2012 “Moog Pioneers in the Studio” Calendar

"December 6, 2011 - Asheville, NC - The Bob Moog Foundation announces the release of its 2012 calendar, “ Moog Pioneers in the Studio.” The calendar features photos and history from Bob Moog’s archives, as well as photos from collections of pioneering synthesists. The photos and text, compiled and written by BMF volunteer historian Brian Kehew, focus on more obscure luminaries and their fascinating instruments.

Through documenting the many musicians, composers, and scholars who collaborated with Moog, the Foundation aims to share the breadth of material encompassed in the inventor’s archives and to share the very rich history of electronic music. In addition to three photos that feature Moog himself, “Moog Pioneers in the Studio” also features Joel Chadabe, Jon Appleton, Jean Jacques-Perrey, Chris Swansen, Jon Weiss, Max Brand, Herb Deutsch, JD Robb, Eric Siday, Emmanuel Ghent, Mort Garson, and Gil Trythall.

As an ode to Moog’s pioneering work in modular synthesis, the background of calendar grid features art images of vintage Moog modules from symphonic synthiesist Erik Norlander’s 1967 modular system. The images were taken by Shaun Hollingsworth of [SIC] Images. The calendar was designed by Rose Hecht and edited by Geary Yelton. Both Kehew and Executive Director Michelle Moog-Koussa wrote forewords for the calendar.

“Saints be praised, the Bob Moog Foundation has released another fantastic, picture-laden calendar, this one for 2012! Featured in gorgeous vintage photos and posing with Moog modular synthesizers — and on occasion with the great Bob Moog himself — are 12 important pioneers of synthesized and electro-acoustic music. Some of these pioneers I’m familiar with, others not so much, and I welcome the challenge of learning more about them beyond what’s revealed by their accompanying captions. Cheers to the Bob Moog Foundation for recognizing these pioneers! I urge everyone to support the crucial Bob Moog Foundation cause by first purchasing this new calendar and by contributing in any way humanly possible.”

—Mark Vail, Music Historian, Author, Teacher and Journalist

The calendar is available for purchase on the Bob Moog Foundation's brand new online store. All proceeds from online sales go to support the Foundation's ongoing projects, including the preservation of Bob's historical and extensive archives, the expansion of our Dr. Bob's Sound School, and creation of the Moogseum in Asheville, N."

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DAS OS @ KLUB MOOZAK #48

flickr By klubmoozak
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"DAS OS @ KLUB MOOZAK #48

4 YEARS OF KLUB MOOZAK
5 YEARS OF E-MAY.ORG
28.9.2011 - 21:00
FLUC WANNE / WIEN PRATERSTERN
Freie Spende / Free Donation

LIVE:
ELISABETH SCHIMANA (AT) with the MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER aka MOOGTONIUM
PIA PALME (AT)
ELECTRIC INDIGO (AT)
DASOS (FR)

Photos by Markus Gradwohl"

MOOZAK and E-MAY (pia palme, electric indigo, elisabeth schimana, dasos)

YouTube Uploaded by klubmoozak on Sep 29, 2011

"pia palme - electric indigo - elisabeth schimana und der max brand synthesizer - dasos (in order of appearance),
*video by uli kühn

4 years moozak, 5 years e-may @ fluc wanne wien

this is not a documentation video, this is to help
meorize...
instruments on stage: kempelen sprechmaschine, korg ms-10, max brand synthesizer (proto moog), 6 macintosh SE..."

via Wikipedia on the sprechmaschine:

"Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine is a manually-operated speech synthesizer that began development in 1769, by Austro-Hungarian author and inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. It was in this same year that he completed his far more infamous contribution to history: The Turk, a chess-playing automaton, later revealed to be a very far-reaching and elaborate hoax due to the chess-playing human-being occupying its innards.[4] But while the Turk’s construction was completed in six months, Kempelen’s Speaking Machine occupied the next twenty years of his life.[2] After two conceptual “dead ends” over the first five years of research, Kempelen’s third direction ultimately led him to the design he felt comfortable deeming “final”: a functional representational model of the human vocal tract.[3]..." See Wikipedia for more.

Moogtonium Documentation Discovered in Bob's Archives

via The Bob Moog Foundation

"As you all know by now, one of our three projects is preserving and protecting Bob's extensive archives. The archives are full of various mediums, but today we focus on letters and schematics that have given way to an exciting discovery about a little known instrument that Bob worked on in 1966.

Visit our website to read the full article on this amazing discovery.

We recently uncovered a stack of letters, notes and schematics describing Bob's work on a version of a Mixture-Trautonium, which he and the musician-collaborator Max Brand deemed the "Moogtonium". You can read much more about this fascinating instrument in a blog post written by Michelle Moog-Koussa, Brian Kehew and Clemens Hausch.

You can hear the sounds of this instrument on the newly release album "Kabelbrand: Sounds from the Max Brand Synthesizer", with compositions by musicians devoted to Brand's musical legacy and by Max Brand himself. We are offering this CD as a gift with a $30 donation to the Bob Moog Foundation. Get your copy today."

You might remember the Max Brand synthesizer from this post and this event featuring the system back in November of 2009. Also see this performance by Oskar Sala on the original Trautonium. As always, you can find additional posts via the labels below. Do not miss the full Bob Moog Foundation article on the Moogtonium.

MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER aka MOOGTONIUM live part 1 @ ARS ELECTRONICA festival

YouTube via klubmoozak

"Benedikt Guschlbauer & Uli Kühn improvise on the Max Brand Synthesizer (aka Moogtonium) live at the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 in Linz, Austria.

This rare synthesizer prototype built by Bob Moog in 1967 is a Moog's unique interpretation of a Trautonium, and was built for the Austrian Composer of avantgare electronics Max Brand. To hear more of this incredible machine, please check out the cd "Kabelbrand - Sounds from the Max Brand Synthesizer", released on the Label Moozak:
http://moozak.org/releases/mzk002/mzk..."

Update:

MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER aka MOOGTONIUM live part 2 @ ARS ELECTRONICA festival 2009

Hoellenmaschine @ Ars Electronica

flickr by astera snowwhite

"Elisabeth Schimana: Höllenmaschine (composition for the Max Brand synthesizer)
Operators: Manon Liu Winter, Gregor Ladenhauf "

Anyone know more about this?

Update: see the comments for more info.

Early Bob Moog - the "Max Brand Synthesizer"

YouTube via klubmoozak.

"bob moog prototype max brand synthsizer"

via Brian Kehew

"The Bob Moog Foundation have recently connected with the people working with Max Brand's early modular synth. Built in the late '60s, Brand had emigrated to America from Germany and asked Bob to design him a synth. Brand's idea was to make a Moog modular that had features of the Mixturtrautonium he had played in Germany. It took some time, but Bob created a unique synth for Brand.

Soon, there will be a CD compilation of modern artists creating music with the old Max Brand Moog. Also included will be a few of Brand's own works on the synth (1970s). I was not familiar with him before this contact, but I really think his music is among the best of the experimental-side composers of the Eletctronic Music era. It's pretty out-there, but full of good sonic ideas and he had good control of the synth, unlike a lot of early musicians."

MAX BRAND synth


"early synth built by BOB MOOG between 1967-1969 for the austrian composer MAX BRAND (1886-1980). Please note that this video is intended to show the machine - the included audio track does NOT demonstrate it's capabilities - most of the audio being heard on this video is not even from this machine! Video by Ulrich Kühn"

Robert Moog's Max Brand synthesizer

Robert Moog's Max Brand synthesizer from Ethan Zuckerman on Vimeo.

"Synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog began designing electronic circuits for Austrian composer Max Brand in 1957 - the instrument was completed roughly a decade later. The sounds it produces were featured in a concert at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz on September 6, 2009. The composition is by Elisabeth Schimana, performed by Manon Liu Winter and Gregor Ladenhauf."

o9_ars electronica festival - human nature exhibition

flickr by a_kep

"Max Brand Synthesizer 1957

Human Nature Exhibition
Brucknerhaus"

Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "It would be more correct to date it as 1957-1967. link"