MATRIXSYNTH: Custom Blue Synth with Orange Knobs


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Custom Blue Synth with Orange Knobs

via FFFFOUND!

Anyone know more about this one? It could be an organ. It seems vaguely familiar but I couldn't find a previous post on it. Giving this one a title that is sure to show up in the site's search results. BTW, FFFFOUND! is just an image sharing sight. The image comes from tumblr, but I wasn't able to back track to the source. It does appear real and not photoshopped.

Update: It's the The Subharchord. Via Atomic Shadow in the comments.

"In the course of extensive research on the history of electronic music instruments, in 2000 Manfred Miersch, a Berlin artist and musician, made a truly remarkable discovery: the trautonium is not the only instrument of its kind; another exists that produces subharmonic sounds — the “subharchord”. As described above, this instrument was invented in the GDR, under difficult technical conditions but using the latest technology available. However, the subharchord differs from the mixturtrautonium in key respects. The subharchord has a keyboard and is played like an organ whereas the mixturtrautonium’s manual is a resistor wire over a metal plate, which is pressed at various points to create sound (like a ribbon-controller), a rather difficult procedure. In addition, the subharchord possesses considerably more possibilities than the mixturtrautonium for generating and manipulating sounds..." See the link above for more and the Subharchord label below for additional posts here on MATRIXSYNTH.  I knew I recognized it!

1 comment:

  1. This...

    http://www.subharchord.de/sub_frameset/subharchord_english.html

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