Kyle Evans - Electronically Modified Didgeridoo Performance @ Georgia Tech

YouTube via yakthekyle. Be sure to see this video.
"A performance with my Electronically Modified Didgeridoo for the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition on Feb. 27 2010. In the finalists round, the competitors were given five minutes to describe and perform their instrument. Besides someone repeatedly stepping on my audio cable (and at one point disconnecting it completely) I thought my performance went pretty well. It was a good opportunity to try out some new techniques."

Ensoniq Fizmo

via this auction

If you ever consider picking up a Fizmo, be sure to read the Fizmo fix.

NINE INCH NAILS Dave Smith Evolver Synthesizer

via this auction

Note number lot number 252 sold for $1075.

"AUCTION # 428
Dave Smith Instruments, Evolver Synthesizer, Serial No. 00598. Analog/digital synth; Stereo audio processor; 16 X 4 sequencer; Very good condition, power supply included, see photos."

Sold For: $2,037.51

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VINTAGE ROLAND SH-2000 MONOPHONIC ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

Moog Prodigy

via this auction

EXPERIMENTAL SYNTH = FOLKTEK glitch 00000

via this auction
"This custom piece is part of a folktek series entitled "philanthropoid"". Known simply as the Bug series. Also in the series on the site and around the world is the Mantis, dronescape sequencer,the book of sound, the moth, the growling insect, the bug, the octa-hedra, walking stick, pendulum translator and others. The sound is phenomenol and continues to amaze us. It is a sonic symphony of nasty and grimy sweetness, endless layers of sound possibilities emenating from High quality OSC originally based on high tech speech synthesis. Seemingly random bits can be rediscovered time and time again and then there are those moments that you will most likely never rediscover. Endlessly captivating, this piece WILL provide sounds that you will not find in other synthesizers and will astonish you every time you turn it on.

This particular piece features four patchable knobs, and a twelve point magnetic patchbay. This allows you to determine function and provides tons of flexibility. In addition, two more knobs (global knob control and power kill) , glowing lamp power indicator , 2 folktek button/switches for activate and freeze mode sections, reset, 1/4" output, basic manual of function and layout. You'll be able to cipher through waveforms and textures with extreme sensitivity in thousands of ways. Waveforms (individual, or multiple layers) can be captured and maintained, often intermodulating in beautiful and/or disturbing ways. Super sensitive knobs let you filter through tons of sounds and glitchscapes. Albums are waiting to be created here as the sound is quite different from anything else you'll find.."

MPC Beat - Don't Let Them Find Me

YouTube via jdepinabeats
"Download this at http://www.soundcloud.com/jdepinabeat...
http://www.twitter.com/jdepinabeats
http://www.myspace.com/jdepina
http://www.facebook.com/pages/jDePina..."

Using Numerology 2.3 w/ Launchpad Pt.2

Part 2 added to this post.

isample moog voyager performance

YouTube via trrstrl
"Short electronic music performance using Way Out Ware's iSample for ipod touch. All samples used are from a Moog Voyager RME. Video recorded with a Canon T1i camera. Audio recorded with an Edirol R-09HR wave recorder. The audio is a few seconds out of sync with the video. Assembled in Nero."
iSample on iTunes:

Clavia Nord Modular G2 rhythm

YouTube via inanaloghaze
"Nord Modular G2 and Korg Electribe ER-1. Drum machine beats."

SH-101 Mods

YouTube via acidchild
"I modified my SH-101 over the past 2 days for extended LFO rates and to keep the Transpose button on. Basically, i added a switch on the Transpose circuit so when switched on, it keeps the transpose function on. So there's no need to press and hold it down now. The LFO mod has 3 positions. Middle = Normal Rate, Up = Very slow to just into the Audio Rate, and Down = Audio Rate to Extreme Audio Rate. These simple mods make the SH-101 even more capable now!"

NYC Synth Meet 02.27.10

flickr by parasitk

"Bleep.

Photo by Shikhee."

Didgeri-dirge

YouTube via boobtube356. "Buchla 259e and 261e"

Obsolete?

Obsolete? from Pixelh8 on Vimeo.

follow-up to this post
"Pixelh8’s work “Obsolete?” is a audio and visual study of the people, machines, history of The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park and looks closely at the themes of mathematics, logic, code-breaking and enciphering. The project was funded by the PRS Foundations new music award and commissioned by The National Museum of Computing.

The music itself is composed using some of the oldest and rarest computers in the world such as the WWII code-breaking machine Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild, and the 1960’s Elliott 803 largely used for mathematics and some of the more commonplace machines such as the BBC Micro. With over thirty machines studied and utilised within the music, it is a combination of both sounds from the internal sound chips and the external electro-mechanical sounds. In addition to this, the piece also utilises such items as the early non-electrical mechanical adding machines.

The project was comprised of twelves pieces of music and accompanying visuals and culminated in two performances at the prestigious Bletchley Park Mansion on March 20th and 21st, 2009.

The project attracted widespread media attention and has been featured on BBC New 24, BBC Look East, BBC South Today, New Scientist Magazine, Dazed & Confused Magazine, Games TM Magazine, Future Music, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Three Counties and covered on several news websites including The Register, MacWorld, bit.tech, Slashdot, The IET, IT Pro and several more.

Available on iTunes, Napster, Spotify and more.

You can watch a interview with me about the making of Obsolete? here vimeo.com/3847750 [below]

Enjoy!"

Pixelh8 Chip Concert at National Museum of Computing from Alper Cagatay on Vimeo.

Gary Numan In Conversation

Gary Numan In Conversation from Machine Music on Vimeo.

"Gary Numan talking about synthesizers" Some synth spotting.

Musikmesse: New Keyboard From Radikal Technologies to be Shown at the Musikmesse

Via the maker himself, Jörg Schaaf, in the Spectralis forum:

"The last update has been published not such a long time ago. The next update will cover more MIDI functionality, some memory managing help and bugfixes - also the knob movement recording will be a part of the next update. But at the moment we are working on a new product that will be presented at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.

No - it's not a Spectralis 3 and it's not a Spectralis keyboard version. But it is a very special keyboard...

I don't believe, that we will have another Spectralis version before summer."

DIY Yusynth EMS diode ladder VCF

via vinnui in this electro-music.com thread.

You can find more info on the Yusynth module here.

More Digisound Modular Pics

flickr by Dr Nerdware
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Indigo Redback & Polymorph - Sequence Jam I.avi

YouTube via RanKirlian
"This one is a raw track I prepared for 1 hour or so on a sunday evening while I was tweaking the Polymorph. First string pad is from Quasimidi Polymorph, played via midi from the Access Indigo 2, who also starts sounding on 00:43. Then, on minute 1:29 enters the first sequence, bass sequence comes at 2:09 and shortly after appears the last sequence.

While this is not a very elaborated track, I wanted to share it mostly as a Polymorph demo, a great sounding machine and a great fun sequencer."

Indigo Redback & Polymorph - Sequence Jam II

"Another jam with Access Indigo 2 Redback and Quasimidi Polymorph. The pad and the strings comes from both Redback and a part of the Polymorph. Sequences starts at 1:50.

Same of previous video: not a very elaborated track, but another Polymorph demo, who fits pretty nice on my setup and looks great next to the Redback."

Using ShakePad VST with a touch screen

YouTube via zioguido
"This is an effect VST plugin called ShakePad which simulates a touchpad multi-effect that can be used with a mouse. In this video I'm testing it with a cheap VGA touch screen... Funny :-)"

A Wonder Wave Run Away

YouTube via MaxMusicOne
"with Wave Overture in DownTempo
for make start the Run of Strato in FastTempo
(all this at 180 bpm in 3/4)
SIAE 2010 (C)opyright
Reserved by Max Mazzotta."

CS80 Tutorial on the Korg Radias

YouTube via notjarre
"pedrogomis asked for a tutorial on programming a CS80 sound on the Korg Radias... so here it is! Sorry about the slightly noisy sound quality - I think I had the levels up too high when recording."

The Initiation - Carbon111

On Carbon111

"Lead Drones are from the SCI Prophet 600, Piano is Nord Stage, Pads are provided by Nord Wave, and Metallic Stabs and Drums are Korg Oasys."

Also on MATRIXSYNTH-C

Carbon111 also runs Carbon111.com, an excellent synthesizer resource site.

Bucket Brigade Device

flickr by thumbuki

"Doepfer A-188-1 BBD Module

Day 28 of Thing-a-day 2010.
thing-a-day.com/"

Sebastien Tellier - L'Amour et La Violence * OFFICIAL VIDEO*

YouTube via RecordMakers. via kimouts. Some synth spotting. Anyone ID the synth on top of the piano? Roland RS-101? Anyone ID the knob laden synth in the background wall? Reminds me of a black Steiner Parker Synthacon, but smaller. That's an AMS Reverb in the reack at 3:27.
"Sebastien Tellier - L'Amour et La Violence
Record Makers (FR)
(C) 2009 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by Record Makers.

Directed by Roman Coppola. L'Amour et La Violence is taken from the critically acclaimed album Sexuality.

Sexuality is available FREE in all American Apparel stores in both the USA and France when bought with a limited edition Sebastien Tellier T-Shirt.

You can purchase all of Sebastien Telliers music from the following links:

iTunes

Amazon (US)

Record Makers Store

Please feel free to watch our other great videos from the rest of our roster!

www.sebastientellier.com
www.recordmakers.com"

Korg MS10

via this auction

Yamaha TF1 module - DX7

via this auction

That's a complete DX7 synth engine in one module.

"Expand your Yamaha TX216 or TX416 TX Rack FM synth with this TF1 module."

ARP Odyssey 2813 MKII SN 1780

via this auction

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CASIO SK-1 ELECTRONIC SAMPLING KEYBOARD SYNTH

via this auction

Prepared Gameboy: LSDj Bot

YouTube via ggijs
http://gieskes.nl/undefined/prepared-gameboy/?f=lsdj-bot

カトちゃん＆ケンちゃん (J.J. & Jeff) night stage NES arrange

YouTube via KM65536
"one of the best game music !!
original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaIAhM..."

カトケン6-4

YouTube via umenettou

Prometheus Burning Studio modular synth Jam 01 (part 2)

YouTube via telladictorian. part 1 here
"Soy Sos and friends jam out with The Beast in the Prometheus Burning Studio. 2.27.10 (Part 2)"

Test ms20

YouTube via doepferiano. KORG SQ10 sequencer and Schippman Ebbe und Flute as well.

Deep Purple - Burn Cover : iPhone/iPod touch App : Pocket Organ C3B3 & PocketGuitar

YouTube via ManetronM400S
"Pocket Organ C3B3 is a musical keyboard application for iPhone/iPod touch that simulates the Hammond Organ. The sound is generated with the synthesis of the waveforms from "Virtual Tonewheel System" controlled by 9 drawbars like the actual Hammond Organ. You will be surprised at the real sound generated from this App! Pocket Organ C3B3 is a Hammond Organ in your pocket.
Pocket Organ C3B3 is programmed by Shinya Kasatani, the creator of best selling iPhone App "PocketGuitar" and is designed by Junichiro Yamasaki of 'Manetron (Mellotron App)'."

Pocket Organ C3B3 on iTunes:


PocketGuitar on iTunes:


Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water Cover : Pocket Organ C3B3 & PocketGuitar

Hypnotized and Spiritualism

YouTube via kaizokuhousou
"the demo of nord wave Mellotron Strings sound and minimoog Voyager sample&hold sound."

When Lava met Mopho

YouTube via hotchk155
"New toy meets an old one... my new Mopho synth coupled up with my MIDI Lavalamp. I built a little battery powered module using a PIC chip which is doing the voltage to MIDI conversion (from 12 photoresistors attached to the lamp). I'll make a schematic/post the source code and add a link here.
There are also guitar distortion and delay effects on the sound.. it might not be the best demo of the sound capabilities of the Mopho but I though the "racecar" effect went well with the blobs moving round in the lamp..."

Using Silent Way with a Modified Tango

YouTube via studionebula. via Analog Industries.
Adam, aka studionebula works with Chris Randall on Audio Damage.
"Demonstration of using Expert Sleepers Silent Way with a modified Frontier Design Tango audio interface to control a modular synthesizer. See http://studionebula.com/blog/modified... for information about modifying a Tango for DC output."

Folktek Harmonic Field version 2

via Folktek Arts

"The second version of one of our favorite works here at the folktek labs, this one steeped in greater possibility - still almost entirely touch based. We've added a 12 part key section to control the touch plates and a very nasty filter to either grime up, liquify or subdue the sound."

Folktek on Ebay

Synthinetic

Synthinetic from alexabreu on Vimeo.

"The little kinetic noisy synthesizer of your dreams.

Brought to you by:

Alex Abreu & Ithai Benjamin"

Micro Vocoder 1

YouTube via iranief.

Opal Chameleon controller.
"Live microtonal vocoding performance featuring Opal Chameleon, Nord G2, LMSO and Logic Pro See http://www.seraph.it/blog_f...'

DUNE-Muzik and Television LIVE at CBGB by TERMINI Band

YouTube via rtermini. Sequential Circuits Prophet Remote keytar.
"Termini band live 1985 CBGB. Songs: Dune-Muzik and Television composed by Termini.
Band Members:
John D -- GTR, Robert Agnello, Bass, Bob Kinkle, Keyboard Rack, Termini Vocal and Synthesizer... the drummers name will be added soon!
© termini 1977, 1985, 2010
Not a great recording but this was a very good band. Great guys. Great players."

Juno-G

flickr by john wave

Aliens Project Modular Wall

more shots on Aliens Project here.