Roostbox - Play a groovebox like a game (Free iOS app)

video upload by e y l v y

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/roostbo...


Roostbox is a groovebox that looks like a retro arcade cabinet and plays like one. It makes techno and other electronic music live, by hand: fly a ship through a beat, ride the faders, flick the stick, and every gesture you make is recorded and loops with the beat.

It is a different way to play electronic music live. There is no step grid to program and no timeline to edit. Everything on screen is a control, you play it with two thumbs, and the loop keeps what you played.

Two kits are in the box, and everything is free: both kits, the whole performance surface and the AUv3 plugin. No purchase, no account, no ads.

Play it standalone on iPhone or iPad, or load it as an instrument inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Drambo or Logic Pro for iPad.

TWO KITS IN THE BOX

SPACE: fly a ship through a beat. Where the ship goes picks the groove: four-on-the-floor, backbeat, offbeat, broken, sixteenths. The cockpit page holds the mixer, a stick for filter and grit, overdrive, pump, tape, delay, reverb, crush and a DJ filter. A 303-style acid bass and a drum synth make the sound.

PLIVKA: a four-track techno box. Kick, bass, snare and hat, each with a pattern control and a hit control, laid out over five pages: Rhythm, Sound, Perform, FX and Mix. The bass line is a Turing machine that mutates as much or as little as you let it.

UNDER THE HOOD

- Euclidean rhythm generators, a Turing machine sequencer and a trigger sequencer drive the patterns.

- A drum synth and a 303-style acid bass synth make the sound. No samples.

- Every fader move is recorded as motion and loops with the beat. Undo and redo if you change your mind.

- Scenes: snapshot the whole kit and switch on the next sixteenth, beat, bar or pattern.

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Rite of the Oracle is coming 12/5

video upload by Eternal Research

"KCRW & Eternal Research present Rite of the Oracle. This one of a kind event is headlined by renowned singer-songwriter Zola Jesus in a rare solo performance on piano and voice. Co-headliner, Fierra Ex Machina will premiere Rite of the Oracle, a story of ancient and modern visionary women who meet across space and time, told through immersive, multidisciplinary modern dance, and live scored by the ensemble with bespoke electro-acoustic instruments. The evening opens with a solo performance by the enchanting harpist, Nailah Hunter.

Renowned darkwave and experimental electronic artist Zola Jesus headlines the evening with an intimate fusion of solo piano orchestrations, haunting operatic vocals, and raw, cathartic energy. Known for exploring the boundaries of human emotion, dark textures, and cinematic soundscapes, her live performance anchors a night dedicated to the transcendent and unseen, and embodies the spirit of women connecting through their voices across time.

Fierra Ex Machina performs live alongside an immersive multidisciplinary dance piece created by musician Alexandra Fierra and choreographer Lauren Auyeung. A synesthetic retelling of ancient prophetic visions through live-scored music, movement, and film, Rite of the Oracle invites the audience into a visceral conversation with the unseen and unheard made vividly audible and visibl

e. Driving the sonic landscape is The Demon Box—Eternal Research’s flagship instrument, serving as the primary electronic catalyst by capturing ambient electromagnetic fields and translating this invisible energy into live audio and driving modular synthesis. Operating in dialogue with this central hardware is a suite of custom-built, handcrafted instruments—including the polyphonic Demon Harp, the melismatic Demon Viola, and the ghostly Demon Bells forged from repurposed artillery shells. Combined with motion-reactive live projection and audio-reactive lighting, the performance amplifies the timeless conversation between ear and instrument, the aether and ourselves.

Opening the ceremony is Los Angeles-based composer, vocalist, harpist, and multi-instrumentalist Nailah Hunter. Blending ethereal harp arpeggios, lush ambient synthesis, and mystical world-building, Hunter’s soothing yet uncanny compositions set an enchanting, contemplative foundation for the evening.

Following 4 sold out performances in Los Angeles, New York City (2x), and San Francisco, Rite of the Oracle is Eternal Research’s most dynamic show yet, melding impassioned voices with cutting-edge transmedia and instrumentation to offer the key to the Oracle of Delphi’s origin: the powers of embodied vision. Stay in touch with the latest Eternal Research events and instruments by following @eternalresearchmusic on Instagram or visiting eternalresearch.com."

Electroacoustic texture synthesis with the Stereo Field and Piezos

video upload by Landscape

"✅Electroacoustic Piezo feedback modification✅ A user of our instrument the Stereo Field recommended I glue knobs onto the Piezos I was using for this method to give a bit more weight to them and quick spinning ability. A really nice idea. I’ll try my best to explain what is happening here again. Piezos are placed face down (a small solder dot on the (-) metal disc to complete the surface connection to the exposed dual stereo preamp circuits. The Piezos are acting as three different elements in this scenario. 1. An element in an “oscillator” 2. An acoustic pickup. 3. A tiny speaker element. These three things change based on where they are touching in the circuits and how the gains are set. In person you can hear them physically feeding back and vibrating against the surface of the Stereo Field. So then you have mechanical feedback simultaneously to circuit feedback. (Internal AND external). Added to that you can get speaker feedback involved and there you have THREE different types of feedback happening. Next I’ll send some instruments through it and maybe try this with modular for a chaotic electro-acoustics CV source. https://www.landscape.fm/stereofield"

matrix note: you can find pics of one posted here today.

Landscape Stereo Field Touch Plate Synthesizer

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Cinematic soundscape | Vhikk X, PlayFader, Qu-Bit modules, and more

video upload by Jay Hosking

https://goplayallday.com/

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A melodic and ambient performance, live with a eurorack case.

Fair warning: Play All Day sent the PlayFader over for free for me to try. There was no explicit discussion of a deal beyond that. Take that as you will. I will say that it's an extremely nice-feeling piece of gear, much heavier and sturdier than I'd expected. Its idea is quite limited—just two mono sequencers, and limited to 64 steps (though you can set it to unusual step counts)—but I can imagine it as a fun controller to complement a setup with a more traditional sequencer. For me, its use will be limited, as I tend to like unusual sequence lengths for the mono synths over top of standard sequences. But I like the feel of the hardware so much that I'm looking for more excuses to use it.

Beyond that, this was an excuse to put together a case with a lot of sound-shaping potential. Vhikk X was doing bass drone, Eowave Domino was the melody / lead synth, and Rample Turbo was playing some samples that I think were kalimba. But the Qu-Bit modules—Stardust for a separate tape reel, Nautilus on delay for Domino, and Mojave on granular for the Rample Turbo—radically transformed the sound. Those Qu-Bit modules are really growing on me: each unit does way more than you'd expect, with Stardust having filter/tape effects/reverb/bitcrushing/glitch, Nautilus having delay/reverb/saturation, and Mojave having granular/reverb; and each unit is decently sized so that they're easy to play.

Altogether this created a sort of sonic landscape that I couldn't have achieved through exploration in another setup. That's the joy of eurorack.

Thanks for listening.

Performed and recorded live, with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.

https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com"

The Hidden Sounds of an Arcade | Photon Smasher Nano Listening Walk

video upload by Clip Sound and Music CIC and Frazer Merrick



"What does an arcade sound like when you listen to its light?

🔊 Music by Dayshade

Join us for an electromagnetic listening walk through Walton Pier Arcade, exploring the hidden rhythms and unexpected sounds of its colourful machines, flashing lights and illuminated displays using the **Photon Smasher Nano**.

The Photon Smasher Nano is a small, highly directional device that transforms changing light into sound. Unlike a conventional microphone, it listens to light rather than vibrations in the air, revealing a hidden world of pulses, patterns, rhythms and textures that would otherwise go unheard.

Over this 11-minute soundwalk, we get curious with the electromagnetic landscape of the arcade, moving between machines and discovering how different light sources create their own distinctive sonic signatures.

*Explore more about the Photon Smasher Nano:* https://www.shop.clipsoundandmusic.uk/

Created by CLIP Sound and Music, a social enterprise developing curious tools for creative exploration through sound, technology and play.

#PhotonSmasher #Soundwalk #ElectromagneticListening #SoundArt #FieldRecording"

Oral Histories - Warren Burt

video upload by Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS)

"Warren Burt arrived in Australia in 1975 and the landscape of Australian electronic and experimental music changed forever. An encyclopaedic repository of works and theories in the field - Warren has been educating and inspiring generations for half a century. His work spans almost all conceivable genres and modalities ranging from his Aardvarks series of pieces (that are also devised instruments) to works exploring incompetence as a paradigm and even compositions designed to propagate in gasses other than oxygen! Since his arrival he has been an almost constant agitator and organiser, creating new performance contexts and ways to educate people both within and outside of the institutions that have been lucky enough to have him on staff.

About Oral Histories:

Storytelling is an essential part of what it means to be human. When we share our stories we create space for real exchange and a deeper sense of empathy toward one another. At MESS we are conscious that so much of what has happened in Australian electronic music was never written down. Even when things are documented formally in books and journals - that very process can create an orthodox history which is inevitably incomplete and riddled with unconscious bias. So what we are doing is sitting down with the people who have made a lasting contribution to the form and asking them to tell us about their experiences in their own words.

The Oral Histories project was funded initially by a local histories grant from the Public Record Office of Victoria.

Filmed and produced by Jonnine Nokes

Find out more at http://mess.foundation"

FAC Gravity Spatial Frequency Shifter AUv3 Plugin

video upload by Fred Anton Corvest

"FAC Gravity AUv3 Plugin is a frequency shifter for creating Barberpole and Shepard style glissandos, spectral illusions, stereo rotation, chorusing, phasing, evolving echoes, infinite cosmic spaces, and all the combinations you’ll make.

0:00 Introduction
0:39 Presentation
1:39 Preset Demo: Shifted Space
1:57 Preset Demo: Ramping Tape Riser
2:15 Preset Demo: Synce Wobble Bass
2:30 Preset Demo: Frequency Shifter
2:49 Preset Demo: Synced Break II
3:09 Outro

Discover more presets in the AUv3 plugin.

More info on https://fredantoncorvest.com"

"FAC Gravity AUv3 Plugin is a frequency shifter for creating Barberpole and Shepard style glissandos, spectral illusions, stereo rotation, chorusing, phasing, evolving echoes, infinite cosmic spaces, and all the combinations you’ll make.

• Dual Frequency Shifting, or Mono Shifting with Quadrature Stereo Widening

• Organic Spiral Loop, from gentle feedback to pure analog self-oscillation

• Integrated delay, diffusion blur, and independent low/high filtering

• Modulation matrix, multi-source envelope follower

• LFO with classic waveforms and random spline

• Spinning modulation to rotate and animate the stereo field

• Tempo-synced or MIDI-driven Frequency Shift, LFO, and Delay

• Dry/Wet mix, optional limiting, and goniometer visualization

• Advanced Responsive Design, portrait and landscape views

• Universal Purchase: AUv3 for iOS (iPad/iPhone), macOS and Vision Pro"

Landscape NOON, control voltage powered experimental drum synth

video upload by Landscape

"A Landscape Noon passive (control voltage powered) drum synth being sent through an Alesis Quadravetb for compression, delay, reverb and distortion. Sequenced and powered by the Arturia Beatstep Pro."

Landscape Stereo Field Touch Plate Synthesizer

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Sonic Extremes: Live Hikari Monos Performance

video upload by Andre Bregegere

"An unedited, live electroacoustic improvisation exploring the wildly experimental synergy between the Hikari Instruments Monos and the SOMA Laboratory Cosmos. Driven by its wide frequency and dynamic ranges, the Monos dictates a highly varied and unpredictable sonic landscape—rapidly shifting from abrasive noise and erratic blips and bloops to more structured, tonal sequences.

This raw, volatile output is fed directly into the Cosmos, which catches, mangles, and loops the Monos' extremes into a generative, evolving hardware conversation.

There are no annotations or on-screen text in this video. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!

The performance was recorded live, then lightly mastered in Pro Tools.

Signal Chain:
Hikari Instruments Monos ➡️ SOMA Laboratory Cosmos ➡️ Universal Audio UAFX Golden Reverberator

#hikarimonos #somacosmos #experimentalmusic #electroacoustic #hardwareimprovisation #noisesynth #dawless #sounddesign"

From Science teacher to Synth teacher | Sound Mechanic 04

video upload by _marcozoppi

"Sound Mechanics of Eurorack - The Community

In this video, I sit down with Girts Ozolins, founder of Erica Synths, to talk about his journey through modular synthesis and the evolution of the Eurorack community.

We discuss the origins of Erica Synths, the culture and community that has grown around Eurorack, and what it means to build instruments in a constantly evolving musical landscape. Girts shares his experiences, ideas, and perspective on the people, creativity, and curiosity that continue to shape the modular synth world."

Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo Returns with Over 100 Brands to Discover - October ‎17–18

video upload by Sanjay C

Video from last year's show above.

Press release follows:

"BROOKLYN, NY — The Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo, perhaps the biggest East Coast event dedicated to electric and electronic gear for musicians with over 100 brands on display, returns to Greenpoint on October ‎17–18, transforming a 7,000-square-foot warehouse into an immersive playground for music creators.

Presented in partnership with the legendary synth store Three Wave Music and local up-and-coming guitar shop Tonewolf, the Expo offers a strictly in-the-headphones experience — letting attendees demo the latest synthesizers, effects pedals, and modular gear from over 100 brands in a noise-friendly environment.

Nestled in one of Brooklyn's most vibrant musical corridors, the show is expected to draw more about 2,000 visitors, a mix of musicians, producers, and gear enthusiasts.

"Intro to Synthesis" Workshops
This year, the Expo expands beyond its large exhibition floor with a new lineup of educational workshops focused on synthesis — from hands-on patch-building sessions to deep dives into modular workflows, led by working artists and builders. A schedule of the workshops will be announced soon.

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UMWELT - Generative Ecosystem Synthesizer (VST / AU)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"UMWELT is a synthesizer made for listening. Press the capsule to generate an autonomous ecosystem with its own weather, tuning, four creature groups, and occasionally a language. Drag across the landscape to rotate the view. Active sounds light up and create ripples, revealing which group is active. The capsules along the top recall recent worlds.

Take your time with each world. Populations grow and decline, day turns to night, storms pass through, and the creatures copy each other's songs with small mistakes, so the same world sounds different ten minutes later.

Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

How it works

A 64-bit seed sets every parameter of a world. The sound is made in four layers.

Substrate is one of four sustained generators:

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A Flock of Birds Flies Across the Landscape | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Using the Plexiphon to create a tapestry of sound!

On Saturday, October 3rd, at 3 pm, Tom Erbe will be at Perfect Circuit in Burbank, California [showroom link], talking about all things Plexiphon and soundhack. The event is free!

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

What If The Machines? A sound installation for modular synthesizers

video upload by Insect O.

"A sound installation for modular synthesizers, inspired by Tod Barton's Krell Patch and extended with a variety of voices.

An autonomous system that generates sound on its own. Human removed. No direct intervention, no conventional performance. Only the rules defined by the patch remain, shaping an evolving sonic landscape that unfolds beyond human control.

What happens when machines are left to create their own sound worlds? Where does composition begin, and where does it end? What role does the human play in a composition that emerges from a system designed to operate independently?

What is analog? What is digital? And where do the boundaries between the two dissolve?

What if the Machines? explores the relationship between human intention, algorithmic structures, and autonomous sound generation, questioning the role of the composer in a world where machines become the performers.

Installation held at Felicità Festival Kühlhaus Görlitz 2026"

Website: https://www.insect-o.de

The Hope - Circuit3 & Vince Clarke

video upload by Circuit 3

Update: you can find an interview with Circuit3 and the collaboration on ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK here.

"With grateful thanks to artist Jackie Hudson Lalor for the production of this video and Kat Lalor for assistance with post-production.

The Hope is taken from the album 'Metanoia: Music From Therapy' available on CD & Vinyl from circuit3.bandcamp.com, available in Digital from mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

Circuit3, the retro-futurist project of Dublin-based Peter Fitzpatrick, steps away from his melodic synthpop background on Metanoia. The album moves into spacious, quietly expressive instrumentals. The sound is minimal and tactile, shaped by the classic late70s and early80s electronic vocabulary without being locked inside it.

Metanoia grew out of therapy and the slow process of letting difficult truths surface. Instead of singing those words, Fitzpatrick shaped them through analogue machines. The title refers to the deep shift that can follow self-reflection: a break, a reset, a way of living with more honesty.

A defining moment in the project was the opportunity to work with Vince Clarke, a longstanding influence on Fitzpatrick’s music. They created an eleven-minute piece titled ‘The Hope’, named after the bar near Farringdon, London where that first conversation between Fitzpatrick and Smith happened. The collaboration feels like a dialogue across time: the artist Fitzpatrick once was, the one he is now, and the one emerging through this process.

The album closes with ‘The Hope’. Across eleven minutes, it builds a melodic drone landscape that holds both hopelessness and hope at the same time. The piece suggests that neither feeling disappears; they sit beside each other, always present, always waiting to be recognised."

Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo Set for October ‎17–18

Press release follows:

BROOKLYN, NY — The Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo returns October ‎17–18, transforming a 7,000-square-foot Greenpoint warehouse into an immersive playground for electronic music creators.

Presented in partnership with the legendary Three Wave Music, the Expo offers a strictly in-the-headphones experience — letting attendees demo the latest synthesizers, effects pedals, and modular gear from over 100 brands in a noise-friendly environment.

Nestled in one of Brooklyn's most vibrant musical corridors, the show is expected to draw more about 2,000 visitors, a mix of musicians, producers, and gear enthusiasts.

"Intro to Synthesis" Workshops
This year, the Expo expands beyond its large exhibition floor with a new lineup of educational workshops focused on synthesis — from hands-on patch-building sessions to deep dives into modular workflows, led by working artists and builders. A schedule of the workshops will be announced soon.

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URANO MERCURIO NETTUNO | Doctor Fungus #arpoloop

video upload by LepLoop

"🌌 Voyage 6: The Final Descent 🛰️

The journey concludes. In the grand finale of The ArpoLoop Space Sessions, Doctor Fungus takes us on a sonic voyage through the outer giants URANO and NETTUNO, with a final, searing pass by MERCURIO.

This session begins in the stillness of a deep VCO drone, gradually shifting as the ArpoLoop’s internal logic accelerates. Watch the transition from smooth, ethereal waves into a high-speed glitch landscape—a true testament to the machine’s chaotic beauty.

🚀 Relive the entire Summer Odyssey: Doctor Fungus: The ArpoLoop Space Sessions 🚀 • Doctor Fungus: The ArpoLoop Space Sessions...

🎹The Gear: ArpoLoop https://www.leploop.org/2024/05/14/th...
👨‍🎨The Artist: Doctor Fungus

💬 Thank you for joining us on this voyage. What was your favorite planetary alignment of the summer?

#arpoloop #leploop #doctorfungus #meditativesynth #spaceambient #modularsynth #analogsequencer #sounddesign #ambientmusic #spacechill #glitch #vcodrone"

The Crow Hill Company Introduces ARCANE STRINGS

video upload by CROW HILL

Press release follows:



EDINBURGH, UK: readily representing its first ‘big’ release in over a year (when the temporarily out-of-circulation GLASS STRINGS was effectively re-released with a totally redesigned GUI and added features as the Edinburgh-based enterprise’s workhorse string library for a new era in more human-sounding music and scores, coinciding with rebranding itself with an aesthetic that truly realised company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began), The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of ARCANE STRINGS — taking the sampling rule book and ripping it up, ultimately resulting in a string library featuring amateur players in order to achieve an arcane, primitive, dislocated, microtonal, loose, and sometimes savage sound duly designed for media composers wanting to leave a truly characterful imprint on their next drama score, or, indeed, composers who want to gain extra devilish bite out of their existing string collections — as of August 14…

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