Banana Frac Modular Progress - New Flickr Shot

flickr by zonkout.

"Blacet modules assembled by Seth Nemec for my Banana-Franken-Fracan modular. Note the bananafied Bananalogue in the middle."

Love the look of this.

Starkey Hearing Science Laboratory - New Flickr Shot

flickr by zonkout.

"Four oscillators, three multimode filters, two A/R envelope generators, digital gate sequencer, noise generator, phase shifter, external audio input...but no CV control. Uses mini-banana jacks. Built in 1977."

Trip. Never seen one of these before.

Update via the comments: "Tres cool. This thing originally came with a set of speakers (follow the link and chech top left on the record cover). Although it isnt a real synt (it has no cv input) you can use it as a really cool gate/trig-processor and a trig sequencer. You can also make some strange noices 'manually' on it. Check this link."

Update via gerald in the comments: link to more shots pulled from this auction. Looks like it went for $541.

Engineering Lounge - New Flickr Shot

flick by Space Truckers. Title link takes you to the shot with mouse over info on each piece.

Women Take Back The Noise

"The WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NOISE compilation, 3 years in the making, showcases a collection of 47 women artists worldwide who experiment with sound in various ways, ranging from ambient-organic to quirky-glitch-beat to harsh or extreme noise, as well as categories yet to be defined..."

Title link takes you there. Pretty cool.

Moog Rogue Shots

Title link takes you to more shots via this cl listing.

via Brian Comnes

The Bob Moog Memorial Museum

Via The Bob Moog Foundation:
"We envision the Bob Moog Memorial Museum as both an information resource and a place to connect with Bob's spirit. The Museum will house Bob's personal and professional archives, which include: writings, photos, instruments, schematic drawings, articles written by and about him, an extensive collection of electronic music, and other Moog artifacts. The goal is to make this an educational, interactive museum open to students, researchers and music historians, and for all people interested in engaging with the Moog legacy. We are also considering an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame."

And via Ileana Grams-Moog on Caring Bridge:
"To preserve his home and workshop in Big Briar Cove, near Asheville, as a museum and archive of his life and work, as well as a nature preserve. It would be a place to connect with him as a craftsman (he partly designed the house, laid the floors, plumbed and wired it, arranged the spring-fed water system, and cut the wood to heat it), as a historian of electronic music (he left a remarkable collection of slides and records of electronic music), as a designer of musical instruments ( through an extensive archive of material about him, and in the building where he hand-built theremins for many years), and as a nature lover (the house is surrounded by old second-growth forest full of animals, birds, and plants native to Western North Carolina). This project is particularly dear to my heart. He loved Big Briar Cove, and it would be a place for his fans to connect with him on many levels."

Shot of Bob Moog's house via this post.
I can't wait to take my daughter there. She and I will finally get to see where all the magic came from.

Moment of Moog: A Time for Reflection

Such a great shot. Wish I was there.
More from Moog Music:

"August 21st, 2006 is a difficult date for lovers of the synthesizer. It was one year ago on August 21st that Bob Moog, inventor of the synthesizer, passed away. This year, Moog Music is rallying the media world to honor the memory of Bob Moog with a special, 20-second “Moment of Moog.” During the Moog moment, Moog requests that radio stations and the online media play a short musical piece, recorded on one of Moog’s most famous inventions, the Minimoog® Voyager®. In doing this, the world of music will be paying tribute to one of the greatest legends in electronic musical instruments.

Radio Stations, Bloggers and Online Media Outlets, please download the Moment of Moog here. Join us by sharing this with your listening audience on August 21, 2006.

“Sometimes it feels as if he is still here; other times, he is sorely missed. One year ago his fate was sealed and the finality of his death certainly gave all of us pause. The ‘Moment of Moog’ is our way of honoring the tens of thousands of musicians who carry Bob’s legacy forward,” reflected Mike Adams, President, Moog Music.

Another organization is also set to honor and continue the Bob Moog legacy. The Bob Moog Foundation for Electronic Music will launch its Web presence on August 21st, 2006. The foundation will be online at www.bobmoogfoundation.org. The objectives of the Foundation are to create: endowed scholarships at University of North Carolina-Asheville, Berklee School of Music and Cornell University; a Memorial Museum in Moog’s name; an outreach/mentoring program that brings electronic music into disadvantaged schools; and to sponsor electronic music competitions and concerts that would foster innovation in the field.

Ken Soper, composer of the 'Moment of Moog' piece, said, 'These sounds remind me that Bob, like the Minimoog Voyager, is alive.'"

Indeed.

Moog One Year Later by Mike Adams of Moog Music

"As the anniversary of Bob’s death approaches, it is important to me to reflect back on the events surrounding his death. The truth is that it has been almost 16 months since Bob was at work. Sometimes it feels as if he is still here; other times, he is sorely missed. One year ago his fate was sealed and the finality of his death certainly gave all of us pause. In my reflection, I found some things that I would like to share with all of you."

"Bob died August 21st, his Memorial Celebration was held August 23rd and we [Moog Music] moved the next day; a day that can only be described as surreal. So not only was Bob gone but the place where we had all seen him work for ten straight years was devoid of all of Bob’s considerable artifacts (see the attached picture which I took one day when it was fairly clean!)."

Title link takes you to the full post by Mike Adams of Moog Music.

Vangelis & CS80 on YouTube

video upload by analoghell

I remember seeing this a while back elsewhere, but I lost the link. Looks like analoghell put it up on YouTube. That's THE CS80 sound. Wow.

Update via reed in the comments of this other post: "The only string sounds Vangelis used the CS80 for were solo-string type sounds. He mainly used the instrument for that brassy lead, low drones, the guitar patch & the bass patch. He always did strings with a string machine. Those big impressive string & choir swells in Blade Runner are nothing more than a Roland VP-330 & a volume pedal with the occasional CS80 note on top or bottom. The VP-330 was also the secret weapon in Chariots of Fire, Missing, Antartica and The Bounty. Before that he used the Roland Paraphonic 505, and before that it was Farfisa & Elka boxes. The choir sound in "Heaven & Hell" was a real choir.

The real key to the CS80 is the keyboard with poly aftertouch & the performance controls on the lower right, not the main patch."

synthSeduction

Title link takes you to a video sent my way via Todd. Wow.


"the Voyager is providing the audio. It is one of 110 one-minute piece I did a year and a half ago: Moog Mars Musings (a new piece every day in response to the daily photos coming from Mars on the NASA site.)."