Make Noise System Concrete Eurorack Modular Synthesizer

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You can find a few videos featuring the Make Noise System Concrete system here.

"MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION

A small system devoted to capturing external sounds and sculpting them into new ones. The Phonogene operates as a recorder that also allows the artist to layer and rearrange the sound and manipulate the speed and direction of playback. The ECHOPHON brings pitch shifting, echo and when combined with the MMG filter, incredible smearing of the spectrum. The Wogglebug and MATHS work to animate these effects.

includes

voltage controlled DSP (Digital Signal Processing)
Voltage Controlled Pitch Shifting and Echo: ECHOPHON
Voltage Controlled Granularization: Phonogene
Complex Random Voltage Generator: Wogglebug
Dual analog control signal generator: MATHS
Signal Distribution and fan out: MULT
Voltage controlled multi-mode filtering: MMG
3U Skiff w/ power supply
Patch cables
specifications

Size: 3U
Total HP: 104
Utilized HP: 86
Expansion HP: 18
Dimensions:
21.5 x 5.14 x 3.5 (inches)
Weight: 6.3 lbs.
Retail value: $2029
Special Price: $1875"

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Make Noise 3u System Expansion

Published on Jan 2, 2014 MAKEN0ISE·31 videos

"This video shows the expansion of a 3u Make Noise System Concrete with an additional module:

- unscrewing and removing the blanking panels
- connecting power to the new module, minding the red stripe on the power cable to mark -12v
- using a patch cable to move the sliding nuts into position
- securing the module to the rails and moving the remaining blanking panels so they are flush with the new addition"

Broken Echo Meadowphysics | Meadowphysics CV

Published on Aug 31, 2016 Ted James Butler

"Monome Grid and Meadowphysics running direct to Make Noise Phonogene in Broken Echo mode, through MMG and out to Aleph running Skitter. Very simple patch. Maths channel 1 modulates Phonogene vari-speed while channel 4 modulates MMG Freq1."

Meadowphysics CV

Published on Aug 31, 2016 Ted James Butler

"Grid, Aleph and Meadowphysics by Monome.
STO, System0 and System Concrete by Make Noise.
Phonogene in Broken Echo Mode.
Toraverb by D16 Group.
Valhallashimmer by Valhalla DSP.
Meadowphysics CV scene by Rayce.
Ergonomic modular synthesizer enclosure by Goike.

September 8, 2014"

Meadowphysics CV

Meadowphysics CV from Ted James Butler on Vimeo.

Grid, Aleph and Meadowphysics by Monome.
STO, System0 and System Concrete by Make Noise.
Phonogene in Broken Echo Mode.
Toraverb by D16 Group.
Valhallashimmer by Valhalla DSP.
Meadowphysics CV scene by Rayce.
Ergonomic modular synthesizer enclosure by Goike.

Happy New Year From MATRIXSYNTH! - A Look Back at 2014

Happy New Year everyone!

I want to start by thanking everyone that comes to MATRIXSYNTH and helps make it what it is - the readers, the supporters, and of course all the sponsors on the right.

THANK YOU and have a GREAT 2015!!!

This site is a labor of love and a ton of work. This site is ultimately meant to be an testament to everything synth in the making. We have over nine years of daily synth history captured here, 119,983 published posts. I can't wait to see what the future brings us in 2015!

That said, here are a few interesting bits from 2014 in the longest post of the year. ;)

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An Interview with Barry Schrader

Hi everyone! As you know Barry Schrader will be giving his farewell concert at CalArts on September 26. The following is the beginning of my interview with him. I opted to post the questions and answers as they come in.  New QAs will get a new post so you do not miss them and they will be added to this post so we have one central post for the full interview. This should make it easier for all of us to consume in our busy lives, and it will allow you to send in any questions that may come to mind during the interview process.  If you have anything you'd like to ask Barry, feel free to send it in to matrixsynth@gmail.com.  This is a rare opportunity for us to get insight on a significant bit of synthesizer history, specifically with early Buchla systems, and I'd like to thank Barry for this opportunity. Thank you Barry!

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Thomas Dimuzio & Buchla Modular [Episode 157]

Published on Jul 9, 2019 CatSynth TV

"While filming the rehearsal Polly Moller Springhorn's Tomography Fortunae, we had a chance to talk with Thomas Dimuzio about the Buchla modular synthesizer he will be using in the performance. His system is based around modules from the Buchla 200e system (including 259e and 258e oscillators and an FM radio tuner) along with clones by Mark Verbos and Mike Peak.

Tomography Fortunae will be premiered at the Outsound New Music Summit on July 26, 2019, at the Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco. (Pre-concert talk at 7:30PM, show at 8PM.)

From thomasdimuzio.com:
'omposer, collaborator, experimental electronic musician, multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, sound designer and mastering engineer - Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 1980's, but is still only known to a small circle of electronic music enthusiasts. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his various releases include everything from "modified 10 speed bicycle" and "resonating water pipe" to short-wave radios, field recordings, loops, samplers and even normal instruments such as clarinet and trumpet. And while his wide range of musical interests make it impossible to pin a label on him, Dimuzio clearly has an insider's knowledge of older experimental musical forms such as musique concrete and electroacoustic, as well as more current dark ambient, noise and post-techno styles.'

For more synthesizer tours and experimental music, please subscribe to this channel and visit www.catsynth.com.

Background music by Amanda Chaudhary, using the FM tuner on the KOMA Field Kit, Arturia Buchla Easel V software synthesizer, and EastWest concrete tank reverb."

Buchla 100

Via this auction.

Details:
"SYNTH WAS PURCHASED ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO, IT WAS PURCHASED USED. IT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED IN MY STUDIO ALL THE TIME, IT HAS SEEN LITTLE USE UNDER MY OWNERSHIP AND I THINK IT’S TIME SOMEBODY ELSE HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE AND I NEED THE MONEY AS WELL. SYNTH COMES WITH A BUCHLA MANUAL, LOTS OF PATCH CORDS. SYNTH WORKS FINE BUT IT MIGHT NEED CALIBRATING BY NOW.

MACHINE WAS KEPT IN A DUST AND SMOKE FREE ENVIROMENT.

Buchla synthesizers are the classic creations of Don Buchla, a circuit designer who produced synthesizers when they truly were analog beasts. Buchla started making his first synthesizers on America's west coast for the purpose of simplifying the tedious process of creating "Musique Concrete". Musique Concrete can be thought of as the predecessor to Electronic Music. It was a form of music in which recordings of various sounds on tape were cut, spliced, distorted, and manipulated in various ways before being spliced back together into something that should sound like music...almost like super old-school sampling & sequencing! This concept was the driving force behind almost every Buchla synthesizer made - an electronic device that can create some basic sound, manipulate it, tune it freely, and sequence it into organized sound, hopefully something musical! With that in mind, Buchla synthesizers were among the first to use indivudally tuneable keys for limitless micro-tuning possibilities, analog sequencers, and complex waveforms other than basic sine, sawtooth, and square waves.

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