Simo Lazarov Bulgarian Electronic Music Electronic Music Studio archive 1984)

Published on Aug 7, 2013 studiovalentin·464 videos

Follow-up to this post. More videos featuring Simo Lazarov and the EMS SYNTHI 100. A search on Simo Lazarov will bring up additional posts.

Simo Lazarov Bulgarian Electronic Music LP The City 1982)

Published on Aug 7, 2013

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Vintage EMS SYNTHI 100 Compositions Featuring Paul Turner & Simo Lazarov

Paul Turner - Panels V on EMS SYNTHI 100

Published on Jun 26, 2013 staffcarpenborg·34 videos

"Electronic Music - University of Melbourne.
Panels V was composed in 1975 it includes an extract from a parliamentary debate, an advertising jingle and the voice of a disc jockey. This upload is taken from an LP that was produced for the Faculty of Music from the above mentioned University. It was released in association with inter-galactic Fringe Benefit Productions by Serge Ermoll.

Engineer: Les Craythorn
Cover design: Anne Pottage
Photographer: Gerard Lier

The Custom Pressing is made by EMI (Australia) & at the heart of this recording is featured the SYNTHI 100 analogue synthesizer, made by EMS of London, linked to a PDP 11/10 computer.

Other Artists that feature on this rarity are Gary Wright, Chris Wyatt, Greg Riddell, Ken Guntar and Peter Tahourdin"

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Simo Lazarov 40 years BG Electronic Music with EMS SYNTHI 100 & SYNTHI

Simo Lazarov 40 years BG Electronic Music bTV arhiv2014

Published on Sep 2, 2014 Synthi Music

EMS SYNTHI 100 at :33.

Simo Lazarov 40 years BG Electronic Music bTV arhiv2012


EMS SYNTHI at 1:19.

You'll find previous posts featuring Simo Lazarov here.

Simo Lazarov UFO 1981 on EMS SYNTHI 100 & More

Uploaded on Nov 5, 2010 studiovalentin·450 videos

"Simo Lazarov (Simon Lazar) is Bulgaria's first composer, performer and promoter of electronic music. He has specialized in several European studios and has taken part in many electronic and computer music festivals all over Europe and USA.
He founded and directed the first Bulgarian studio for Electronic music at the Bulgarian National Radio (1973 - 1999). Since 1977 he has been a lecturer on sound engineering and electronic music at the Music Academy, Technical and Sofia's Universities. In 1996 he created a brand new programme-course on "Computer Systems and Technologies in the Music" at the New Bulgarian University.
Over the years Simon Lazar has performed more than 2000 concerts. In recent years he has organized open-air concerts which are synthesis of the various arts, attracting large audiences for his contemporary music.
He was co-initiator of the Festival for Electro-Acoustic, Electronic and Computer Music and of the multimedia forum Computer Space. In 1999 he created International Forum-Festival Computer Music Space witch is held in different countries.
Simon Lazar has released 9 LP, 30 CD's, more than 80 soundtracks and 9 books. For 30-th year Anniversary of first Bulgarian Electronic Music Studio was released 30 CDs Special Edition - Anthology of his music. He has received many prizes and in 1995 was named Bulgarian Musician of the Year. He is a member of Bulgarian and Israeli Composers League and SEAH Czech Electro-Acoustic Composers.
In 2008 Simon Lazar was named "Artist of the Year" of National Culture Center."

Simo Lazarov interview BNT for Children 1990

Published on Jan 20, 2014 Synthi Music·483 videos

EMS SYNTHI 100 & KORG Poly-61.

Update:

Simo Lazarov The Day 1981

Simo Lazarov UFO with Synthi100 & SynthiAKS EMS & vocoder 1981

Uploaded on Nov 9, 2011 Synthi Music·486 videos

Also see Vintage EMS SYNTHI 100 Compositions Featuring Paul Turner & Simo Lazarov

Simo Lazarov Layer 7S with EMS Synthi 100 & Synthi AKS 1983

YouTube Uploaded by studiovalentin on Nov 9, 2011

Simo Lazarov-40 Years Bulgarian Electronic Music-2014

Published on Mar 7, 2014 Synthi Music·486 videos

EMS SYNTHI 100

Simo Lazarov Celestial Spheres9 Dialogue with Encounters 1986

YouTube Published on Jul 20, 2012 by studiovalentin

This is video 9. You can find the others here: https://www.youtube.com/user/studiovalentin/videos

Happy New Year! The Year in Synths 2013

Happy New Year Everyone!

What a busy year it has been in the world of synths.

This is going to be one doozy of a post, so bear with me. This post is a review of the year in synths for 2013. We begin with Tributes to Those We Lost This Year, followed by New Manufacturers & Makers, Older Manufacturers Added to the Site, New Gear Announcements, Top 10 Posts by Traffic,  My Standout Posts for the Year, and finally This Years' Synth Events. I did my best to keep things as short and concise as possible.

Let's begin with the hardest part of the post.

Tributes to Those We Lost This Year

RIP Bernard Parmegiani - Electronic & Acoustic Composer
Lou Reed RIP
RIP Dick Raaymakers aka Kid Baltan
RIP George Duke - DreamWeaver
RIP Ralph Dyck, Sept 28, 1941 – May 20, 2013
RIP Ray Manzarek

All missed and never to be forgotten. Take a moment to remember them.

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New Manufacturers & Makers

Starting last January, I decided to keep a running list of every new manufacturer and maker introduced to the site during the year.  This is something I haven't done before and I thought it would be interesting to see how many there were in the year.   It's easy to focus on the big synth announcements throughout the year, but what about all the new makers and brands? I shouln't have to go considerably into the significance of new designers on the scene, so I'll just say two things regarding them.  One, the number of new makers is a direct reflection on the interest in our scene, and two, these are the creators of new gear which directly translate into new designs not previously available to us.  Think about that for a moment.  These are makers and designs that did not exist before.  They are part of our synth history.  So what is the total count of new synth designers for the year? A whopping 113. Think about that a bit. One hundred and thirteen new synth designers and brands this year alone.

Here they are (note a handful date back to 2012, but 2013 marked their momentum and availability):

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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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