Klaus Schulze Has Passed Away

Klaus Schulze passed away yesterday at the age of 74.

via Discogs

"Born August 4th 1947 in Berlin, died April 26th 2022, was a german electronic pioneer, composer and musician. Schulze initially made his mark as a drummer, first with the group Psy Free, later with Tangerine Dream (he played on their first album "Electronic Meditation" before he quit) and Ash Ra Tempel (with Manuel Göttsching). In 1971 Schulze started a solo career as an electronic musician and released a couple of heavily experimental albums, 'Irrlicht' and 'Cyborg'. 1973's 'Cyborg' was the first release where he used a 'real' synthesizer, the legendary VCS 3 and later in the 70's he would record albums such as 'Moondawn', 'Mirage' and 'X' and embark on several tours, documented across a number of live albums.

In 1978 he set up the label Innovative Communication and the following year he also launched the pseudonym/project Richard Wahnfried. In the 1980's Schulze continued his hectic release schedule as well as recording several soundtracks and rebuilding his studio (he "went digital" in 1986). In summer 1983 Klaus Schulze 'sold' Innovative Communication.

In the 1990's Schulze recorded several electronic interpretations of works by classical composers (most notably Wagner) as well as collaborating with opera singers and other classical music performers on his own albums. He also started collaborating with German ambient/techno artist Pete Namlook in the series 'The Dark Side Of The Moog' on the latter's Fax label, and steered the Wahnfried project into a more modern techno- and trance-inspired direction.

Schulze '...passed away on April 26, 2022 at the age of 74 after a long disease but all of a sudden'. - statement from his social media pages."

You can find numerous posts mentioning Klaus Schulze over the years here. Below are a few better known performances featuring his work from early on to a more recent performance with Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard.

Klaus Schulze with his rack of Quasimidi Polymorphs built to his specifications.
Klaus Schulze Live 1977 better image & sound

video upload by Relena Bonasoro

Klaus Schulze Live - WDR Köln 1977

Klaus Schulze Live - WDR Köln 1977 video upload by Boropolis

Klaus Schulze talks about, and demonstrates, his first synth an EMS Synthi A

video upload by Synthasy2000

Klaus Schulze - A few Minutes after trancefer

video upload by Electronic Progression

Klaus Schulze Feat. Lisa Gerrard - Rheingold

video upload by Ioannis Gourgoulidis

via @moogmusicinc

"A pioneer of electronic sound, Klaus Schulze and his contributions to the synthesizer community and modern music as we know it will continue to inspire for generations.

Thank you, Klaus, for showing the world how truly human electronic music can be.

❤️"

Photo credit: Klaus D. Mueller
Source: klaus-schulze.com

This image was taken in Berlin in 1976 according to Till Kopper @realqwave. That would have made him 28 or 29 at the time depending on the month taken.



Update: also see Klaus Schulze: A tribute to his music and legacy

ARC At E-Scape 13th May 2017

Published on May 17, 2017 Synthasy2000

"ARC At E-Scape 13th May 2017

Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve at The New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk

Edits are due to 4GB FAT32 limit on my camera and also running out of memory space halfway through the encore and having to use my iPhone - terrible timing! The encore was brilliant.

My apologies.

http://www.din.org.uk/din/node/298"

E-Scape 13th May 2017 Taster Various Artists

Published on May 17, 2017

"E-Scape 13th May 2017

The New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk

Artists are:

Modulator ESP aka Jez Creek http://www.modulator-esp.co.uk/home.htm
David Wright and Carys http://www.davidwrightmusic.com/
Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder http://www.bks-em.eu/
Glenn Main https://glennmain.wordpress.com/

Headline act ARC (Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve) performance can be found here:
https://youtu.be/G2d_f84MzSw

http://www.din.org.uk/din/node/298"

E-scape June 11th 2016 Electronic Artists

Published on Jul 5, 2016 Synthasy2000

"Live at E-Scape 2016 11th June 2016.

Featuring:
The Glimmer Room http://www.theglimmerroom.co.uk/
Stefan Whitlan https://stephanwhitlan.bandcamp.com/
Ian Boddy http://www.din.org.uk/din/node/310
Andy Pickford http://www.andypickfordmusic.com/
Modal Electronics (Paul Maddox) http://www.modalelectronics.com/
Bernd Kistenmacher http://www.berndkistenmacher.com/

E-Scape is the annual all day festival of live electronic and ambient music held at ‘The Cut Arts Centre‘ in Halesworth, Suffolk. It is usually held at the end of May, beginning of June, the week after the bank holiday weekend. The event is hosted by UK record label AD Music to promote traditional electronic music from around the globe. It usually features AD Music artists but is not exclusive to the label and always includes non AD Music artists.

It started as “the Bungay Bash” in 2009 and moved to Halesworth in 2015 as the newly named E-Scape. A unique selling point for the event, as of 2015, is that the ticket includes an audio ‘download’ of the event in high rate MP3 or Flac, or on USB stick, available 2 weeks after the event. This means that fans of the electronic music scene from around the world who are otherwise unable to attend can still hear the concert, albeit afterwards, and are also actively supporting their favourite acts and the electronic music scene by so doing."

Ulrich Schnauss Korg DW8000 Synthesizer Waveform Expansion Modification

YouTube Published on Jul 23, 2012 by Synthasy2000

"Ulrich Schnauss DW8000 Waveform Expansion Mod by Chris Strellis

32 selectable banks of 16 waveforms. The banks can be changed at any time for PPG like sounds."

SDIY UK 2011 Cambridge Modular Synthesizers TB303 Cirklon DIY Freescale

YouTube Uploaded by Synthasy2000 on Jul 11, 2011

"Synth-DIY UK 2011 was held on July 9th at Robinson's College in Cambridge.

All manner of modified synths, complete home made modular systems, dsPIC TB303 emulators, modelled 909 drum machines and Max/MSP PureData Supercollider modelled Korg MS-20 filters on show."

Update: Some pics are up on synth.net here.

BBC Tomorrow's World Fairlight CMI from 1980 Kieran Prendiville

YouTube Uploaded by Synthasy2000 on May 6, 2011

"Not seen this before on YouTube so I've put it up for the Fairlight video collectors out there.

Kieran Prendiville bashes out a tune on a new synthesiser that can sample real sounds! Revolutionary for 1980 and now so main stream. One of TW's hit predictions.

He's wrong when he says the Fairlight (well he never actually mentions it's a Fairlight) "mathematically works out" the sound. It doesn't synthesise the sound which is the impression Kieran Prendiville is giving. He's also wrong when he says "those aren't recordings". They are of course, sounds sampled into memory as we all know and love.

Although the tape based Mellotron from 15 years or so earlier than this was used to play back sound effects ;)

I'm not so keen on his mugging to camera though. Probably a struggling actor coming out of him. Maybe that's why he wrote "Ballykissangel" :D"

Alesis HR-16 custom sounds EPROMs vs Boing Boom Tschak

YouTube Uploaded by Synthasy2000 on Apr 7, 2011

Also see this post.

'Alesis vs Kraftwerk is an A/B composition showing how you can emulate the Kraftwerk track Boing Boom Tschak using LM-1 Bass Drum pitched down, LinnDrum Snare 23, Linn LM-1 hand clap pitched down and Linn LM-1 tambourine pitch high and normal. I think you can work out the transition points!

www.strellis.com/alesis.shtml"

Alesis HR-16 custom sounds EPROMs Medley Demo - Linn LM-1 LinnDrum DMX Drumulator Drumtraks

Uploaded by Synthasy2000 on Apr 7, 2011

"Alesis HR-16 Custom Sounds

Give your 90s digital drum machine a new lease of life with classic 80s 8-bit drum sounds!

49 high fidelity samples of 8-bit US drum machines were used to carefully prepare these sound EPROMs for you.

All 49 sounds are replaced with a selection of Linn LM-1, LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Oberheim DMX, Oberheim DX, Sequential Circutis Drumtraks, Emu Drumulator, Emu SP12 and Emu S1200 samples.

The Drumtraks, DMX and DX initially look under represented here but in the real world they do share the same drum and hi-hats sounds apart from the Drumtrak's kick. The Drumtraks percussion is from a Linn LM-1. Also the DMX and DX use the same samples. Therefore, these three drum machines are adequately covered.

www.strellis.com/alesis.shtml

Voice Number Name Sample
1 24" Power Kick SP12 Kick 2
2 22" Deep Kick DMX Kick
3 22" Power Kick Drumulator Kick
4 20" Swift Kick SP12 Kick 1
5 22" Dbl Hd Kick A SP1200 Kick 1
6 22" Dbl Hd Kick B SP1200 Kick 2
7 22" 60's Kick Drumtraks Kick
8 22" Gated Kick LinnDrum Kick
9 Electronic Kick 1 Linn 9000 Kick
10 Electronic Kick 2 LM-1 Kick
11 8x14" Wood Snare LM-1 Snare
12 Ambient Snare LinnDrum Snare
13 13" Brass Piccolo DMX Snare
14 Gated Snare Linn 9000 Snare
15 Electronic Snare Drumulator Rim
16 Rimshot Snare Drumulator Snare
17 Sidestick LinnDrum Snare23
18 Brush Hit Snare DMX Shaker
19 10" Power Tom LM-1 Tom
20 16" Power Tom Drumulator Tom
21 10" Dbl Head Tom Linn 9000 Tom
22 14" Dbl Head Tom Linn 9000 Electronic Tom
23 Electronic Tom LinnDrum Conga
24 Closed HiHat A Drumtraks Closed HiHat
25 Closed HiHat B LinnDrum Closed HiHat
26 Half Open HiHat Drumtraks Open HiHat
27 Open HiHat LinnDrum Open HiHat
28 Foot Closed HiHat LM-1 Medium HiHat
29 Ride Cymbal Drumulator Ride Cymbal
30 Ride Cymbal Bell Linn 9000 Ride Cymbal
31 Crash Cymbal Drumtraks Crash Cymbal
32 Timbale DX Tom
33 High Conga Slap Linn 9000 Conga
34 Low Conga Slap LM-1 Conga
35 Small Wood Block Drumulator Closed HiHat
36 Large Wood Block Drumulator Open HiHat
37 Rosewood Claves Drumulator Clave
38 Cabasa DMX Clap
39 Maracas A Drumulator Cowbell
40 Maracas B LM-1 Clave
41 Shaker LM-1 Clap
42 Agogo Bell Drumulator Clap
43 Medium Cowbell LM-1 Choke HiHat
44 Large Cowbell Linn 9000 Cowbell
45 Triangle Linn 9000 Tambourine
46 Tambourine LM-1 Tambourine
47 Hand Claps LinnDrum Clap
48 Finger Snap LM-1 Tight HiHat
49 Drum Sticks LM-1 Rim"

Alesis HR-16 custom sounds EPROMs - Linn LM-1 LinnDrum DMX Drumulator Drumtraks

YouTube Uploaded by Synthasy2000 on Apr 6, 2011

"Alesis HR-16 Custom Sounds

Give your 90s digital drum machine a new lease of life with classic 80s 8-bit drum sounds!

49 high fidelity samples of 8-bit US drum machines were used to carefully prepare these sound EPROMs for you.

All 49 sounds are replaced with a selection of Linn LM-1, LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Oberheim DMX, Oberheim DX, Sequential Circutis Drumtraks, Emu Drumulator, Emu SP12 and Emu S1200 samples.

The Drumtraks, DMX and DX initially look under represented here but in the real world they do share the same drum and hi-hats sounds apart from the Drumtrak's kick. The Drumtraks percussion is from a Linn LM-1. Also the DMX and DX use the same samples. Therefore, these three drum machines are adequately covered.

www.strellis.com/alesis.shtml

Voice Number Name Sample
1 24" Power Kick SP12 Kick 2
2 22" Deep Kick DMX Kick
3 22" Power Kick Drumulator Kick
4 20" Swift Kick SP12 Kick 1
5 22" Dbl Hd Kick A SP1200 Kick 1
6 22" Dbl Hd Kick B SP1200 Kick 2
7 22" 60's Kick Drumtraks Kick
8 22" Gated Kick LinnDrum Kick
9 Electronic Kick 1 Linn 9000 Kick
10 Electronic Kick 2 LM-1 Kick
11 8x14" Wood Snare LM-1 Snare
12 Ambient Snare LinnDrum Snare
13 13" Brass Piccolo DMX Snare
14 Gated Snare Linn 9000 Snare
15 Electronic Snare Drumulator Rim
16 Rimshot Snare Drumulator Snare
17 Sidestick LinnDrum Snare23
18 Brush Hit Snare DMX Shaker
19 10" Power Tom LM-1 Tom
20 16" Power Tom Drumulator Tom
21 10" Dbl Head Tom Linn 9000 Tom
22 14" Dbl Head Tom Linn 9000 Electronic Tom
23 Electronic Tom LinnDrum Conga
24 Closed HiHat A Drumtraks Closed HiHat
25 Closed HiHat B LinnDrum Closed HiHat
26 Half Open HiHat Drumtraks Open HiHat
27 Open HiHat LinnDrum Open HiHat
28 Foot Closed HiHat LM-1 Medium HiHat
29 Ride Cymbal Drumulator Ride Cymbal
30 Ride Cymbal Bell Linn 9000 Ride Cymbal
31 Crash Cymbal Drumtraks Crash Cymbal
32 Timbale DX Tom
33 High Conga Slap Linn 9000 Conga
34 Low Conga Slap LM-1 Conga
35 Small Wood Block Drumulator Closed HiHat
36 Large Wood Block Drumulator Open HiHat
37 Rosewood Claves Drumulator Clave
38 Cabasa DMX Clap
39 Maracas A Drumulator Cowbell
40 Maracas B LM-1 Clave
41 Shaker LM-1 Clap
42 Agogo Bell Drumulator Clap
43 Medium Cowbell LM-1 Choke HiHat
44 Large Cowbell Linn 9000 Cowbell
45 Triangle Linn 9000 Tambourine
46 Tambourine LM-1 Tambourine
47 Hand Claps LinnDrum Clap
48 Finger Snap LM-1 Tight HiHat
49 Drum Sticks LM-1 Rim"

Inside The Voynich Modified Korg DW6000 Digital Synth

YouTube via Synthasy2000 | February 02, 2011 |
Don't miss the ending on this one.
"A Korg DW6000 has a ROM upgrade to go from 8 waveforms to 256 accessed by a bank select knob."

Jan Hammer BBC Rock School Series 2 1987

YouTube via Synthasy2000 | April 03, 2008

"Jan Hammer rocks out with his Fairlight and Yamaha KX5 remote keyboard on BBC Rock School series 2 from 1987"
Previously posted but taken down by the other YouTube user.

Synth DIY UK 2010 Cambridge - Update with New Pics

YouTube via Synthasy2000 | July 12, 2010

"Synth DIY 2010 at Robinsons College, Cambridge, July 10th"

Update: Moving this one back on top for two new image galleries for the event. You can find pics from Strellis here and pics from Noisecomformist here.

boxotrix

flickr by synthasy2000
(click for more)

box o tricks

via brian comnes

HJ8 Hampshire Jam 8 Air Sculpture Radio Massacre International RMI

YouTube via Synthasy2000
"HJ8 Hampshire Jam 8 at Liphook, UK on 31st October 2009

A short montage of mostly Air Sculpture and then the last clip is Radio Massacre International.

Dot Com modular synth action!"

Anyone ID the other gear? I see Doepfer for sure. The blue on the right could be a Sequentix P3 sequencer. The white on the left could be Modcan or DIY.

Klaus Schulze talks about, and demonstrates, his first synth an EMS Synthi A

YouTube via synthasy2000

John Foxx takes you on an Arp odyssey and MORE

YouTube via Synthasy2000
"John Foxx takes you on an Arp odyssey."

Vince Clarke describes an early sampling drum machine



"Vince Clarke describes an early sampling drum machine."
Anyone remember what this one was called? See the update below.

Phil Oakey describes how the Human League got the drum sound to Being Boiled


"Phil Oakey describes how the Human League got the drum sound to Being Boiled."

OMD Andy McCluskey breaks down the structure of Enola Gay


"Andy McCluskey breaks down the structure of Enola Gay.
From Synth Britannia"

Update on Vince Clark's drum machine via 7ate9 in the comments:
"drum machine = movement 2

first one i've seen in brown, all others seem to be in a tasty orange

movement 1 had a seperate monitor on top of a flat main unit"

See the Movement-MCS label below and scroll for more.

Synth Britannia Airs This Friday

via Electronic Battle. For those of you in the UK, Synth Britannia airs this Friday night at nine o'clock, on BBC Four. Mark your calendars as unless something new comes up between now and then, this will be the only post. For the rest of us, here's a trailer [previously posted].


YouTube via Synthasy2000
" In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.

Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.

By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.

Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."

BBC Archive Tomorrow's World Moog Synthesiser

YouTube via Synthasy2000
"Synopsis

In this report from a longer programme, Derek Cooper introduces the Moog synthesiser, an instrument that can produce a variety of noises and arrangements, both mimicking real instruments and creating new sounds, all electronically.

Did you know?

Developed by Dr Robert Moog, the Moog synthesiser evolved from a kit known as a Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Module, which Moog demonstrated in prototype form in 1964. The first production models emerged in 1967, accompanied by a sample record of music composed by Walter Carlos (later Wendy Carlos, after her sex-change operation in 1972). It was Carlos's 1968 album 'Switched-On Bach' that catapulted Moog-produced music into popular culture, though examples of music made on the synthesiser had already been released by The Doors, The Monkees and Simon & Garfunkel, among others.

Contributors
Derek Cooper
Reporter"

BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer

YouTube via Synthasy2000
" In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.

Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.

By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.

Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."

Maplin 4600 analogue synth

flickr by synthasy2000
(click for more)

Some of these appear to be from last year's SDIY UK event.

Voynich Modified Korg Poly 800 Synth Moog Slayer

YouTube via Synthasy2000
"Another Poly 800 to been improved by this simple and effective modification"

Follow-up to this post on the KORG DW-8000. via the AH mailing list where Voynich (Chris Strellis) wrote in regarding discussion of the Poly-800 and DW-8000: "Check out my song "The Power of Nine" to hear the bass line made with a DW8000 in unison.

http://www.myspace.com/strellismusic

Also more of my DW8000 doing the (minimoog) solos in "Airwaves"

http://www.myspace.com/energiefabrik

For the money I'd get a DW8000 hands down, no contest. Cheap, great filters, digital delay-ay-ay-ay and many of the parameter can be controlled over MIDI.

Cheers
Chris"