Smokey Quartz - Pneumata #2

Published on Oct 25, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"A meeting between the Ekdahl Polygamist and Metasonix Wretch Machine with a little percussive help from Mr. Basimilus Iteritas. The Polygamist is running the show, triggering everything with it's LFOs and sending out pitch CVs to the Wretch and BI from it's ribbon."

Smokey Quartz - Pneumata #1

Published on Oct 23, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"The first in a new series of synth improvisations using whatever tickles my fancy at the moment. At this moment it's the Ekdahl Polygamist playing the Metasonix Wretch Machine resulting in a thick, dirty, analog drone."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 13

Published on Jul 13, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this Polygamist Love video, the Ekdahl Knas Polygamist gets some random-ish sequences whispered into it's ears and we go swimming. Morning swimming? Night swimming? Synthesizers? We love it all! Background percussions from the Metasonix D-1000 and a Noise Engineering B.I. module."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 12

Published on Jul 2, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video, the Ekdahl Polygamist gets some more love while being sat on by Oaxacan carvings. We also take a stroll through the Self Realization Meditation Gardens in Encinitas. Self-realization through synthesis? Maybe.

This deviates from the other Polygamist Love videos in that it has beats, provided by the Metasonix D-1000 and a Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas module."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 11

Published on Jun 29, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video I give the Knas Polygamist some love and go swimming in the ocean."

POLY LOVES PHASHI 4

Published on May 24, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video the Ekdahl Polygamist makes love to the Tocante Phashi. Or is it the other way around? Either way, it is consensual but not very "sensual" in the ordinary sense. Stick around as towards the end I start making out with Phashi to make Poly jealous… don't worry, I don't lick it.. hot breaths only!"

POLY LOVES PHASHI 3

Published on May 23, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"So you take two Knas Ekdahl Polygamist oscillators (7 if you include the audio rate LFOs, ADSR, and self-oscillating filter, 10 if you include the sub-pitches of VCO2) detune them and add a Tocante Phashi… then what????"

POLY LOVES PHASHI 2

Published on May 22, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"A sunset love drone between the Tocante Phashi and Ekdahl Polygamist."

POLY LOVES PHASHI 1

Published on May 18, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video, the Tocante Phashi is plugged into the Ekdahl Polygamist and I record their first encounter. Awkward meeting or love at first sight? Also, the infamous Girl Party ladies take a face painted bath. We had too much fun making this video, if such a thing even exists."

Ekdahl Moisturizer Spring Reverb/Amplifier/Filter

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POLYGAMIST LOVE 10

Published on Apr 25, 2015 Smokey Quartz
Re-Published on Apr 26, 2015

"In this video I have a solo noise jam on the Ekdahl Knas Polygamist synthesizer while intermittently stopping to playing with my cat. After the recording, the Polygamist told me that it does not prefer solo jams. It is all about 'the more the merrier' for the Polygamist, or 'Poliy-G' as I sometimes call it. Sorry Polygamist, maybe I can get more hands on you next time."

The EKDAHL POLYGAMIST by KNAS RARE SYNTHESIZER

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"We believe there are only around 53 of these units ever built... The duo phonic ribbon is a blast. The ADSR times are ridiculous."

Rare Ekdahl Polygamist up for sale/auction. Discontinued back in May of 2014, you don't see these come up too often. A search on Polygamist here on MATRIXSYNTH will bring up previous posts including recent video demos.

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POLYGAMIST LOVE 9

Published on Apr 22, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video we light a bunch of incense and play with the Ekdahl Polygamist. Things get smokey. It starts pretty droney before getting wild, then mellow, then crazy, then annoying… so many emotions from the Polygamist! It's been talking to us! Am I just paranoid?"

POLYGAMIST LOVE 8

Published on Apr 19, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"For this Polygamist love my parents, who are retired and haven't played a synth before, jam out on the Knas Ekdahl Polygamist with me. Truly a fun synth for the whole family! Does the family that makes noise together, stick together? Or do they just annoy each other? ;)

Enjoy the bare feet and afghans… smell the incense through your tinny speakers."

Ekdahl Moisturiser

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"Basically, the Ekdahl Moisturizer is a spring reverb where the springs are exposed so they can be played/hit/fiddled with. As well as being capable of creating sound in itself, you can of course also play sound through the springs like a regular spring reverb - this makes for happy-fun-time finger-modulation of the reverb on whatever audio that's going through it. On top of this there's an analog multimode filter that can be used to attenuate or exaggerate certain frequencies in the sound, this is real handy while playing the springs as you can - for instance - cut all the highs and just make thunderous doomy sounds or do the opposite; cut all the lows and make that ear piercing high frequency special love. Also, it incorporates an LFO that's internally routable to the filter and that also has some external routing-stuff. The Ekdahl Moisturizer has tons of CV / Expression pedal options on the back for even more hillarious moments. The Moisturizer is a mono unit.

The Moisturizer was developed with the help of Jason Willett (Half Japanese, Leperchaun Catering), Martin Schmidt (Matmos, Instant Coffee), Joshua Atkins (Polygons, Major Powers), mom & dad and many more."

Schmidt on Acid

Published on Mar 28, 2015 kpsiegel

"It started snowing today and rather than get all bummed out about it I fired up the Schmidt 8 voice poly, my burnkit2600 modded 606 for beats, and my Cirklon and just decided to do a video and jam out. The patch on the Schmidt was all original. This is as it was recorded live. No EQ. No compression. No extra effects. The 606 was going through an Ekdahl Moisterizer on a mixer send channel. The Schmidt was going through an Eventide H3000 D/SE also on a mixer send.

Recorded directly out of the mixer main outs into my DAW. Watch it in HD for best sound."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 7

Published on Feb 14, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"For Valentine's Day we made a noisy mess with the Ekdahl Polygamist and let the cat sit on it. It sounds pretty good with a cat sitting on it."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 6

Published on Feb 12, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video three people and one cat attempt to play the Ekdahl Polygamist. One of them has never played a synthesizer before… and it's not the cat!"

POLYGAMIST LOVE 5

Published on Feb 12, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"Come take a bath with us and the Ekdahl Polygamist! What does the sun card have to do with it? WE DON'T KNOW! More ridiculous synth noise and drones from Smokey Quartz."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 4

Published on Feb 11, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"Getting all lovey with the Ekdahl Polygamist. What new things will it say to us when it's knobs & ribbons are turned & stroked the right ways? and the wrong ways? Stick around as Ashley starts to rock the ribbon."