The MAESTRO - Russian Poly Analog

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Polyphony - 4 voices
Oscillators - 1
Preset sounds - 20 (sorted on category), registers 2',4',8',16'
Filter - 2-pole resonant lowpass 12dB/oct
Pitch - tuning, chorus
Modulation - vibrato depth, frequency
Amplifier - release, volume
Arpeggiator/tremolo - rate, up/down, single/double, note memory
Control - joystick pitch/modulation depth (X-Y)
Outs - line, phones(jack)
Weight - about 12kg

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via frederic

Blevin Blectum

Brian Comnes sent the following in after seeing this post on Women Take Back The Noise. The shots are of Blevin Blectum who is featured on the album.

"Blevin Blectum, a local here is on it and here is a shot of her at last Year's SFEMF , there's a laptop running Live in 1 pizza box and I think a mixer in the other, the horse head is off the chart" Love the shoes as well.

Title link takes you to her site.



"I got this off of Blevin's site which also included a link to SFEMF archives with also some Zeena Parkins pictures -
see this link for more, actually there are some good shots of Zeena's harp , looks like guitar pickups on one side and some sort of ribbon controller on the other ..I don't see any MIDI output so I guess its just a harp"

"an as yet unreleased goody!" from Moog?

Someone in the comments of this post was surpised that no one caught a mention to "an unreleased goody!" from Moog Music in the following excerpt:

"Some time in November or December of 2004, Bob was introduced to Cyril Lance. As Winter NAMM was fast approaching, Bob kept telling me, 'I really want you to meet Cyril.' I just could not find the time until February, 2005. In the meantime, Bob had given Cyril a test project to work on (an as yet unreleased goody!). Needless to say Bob was very excited about what he saw – schematics, prototype, and (most importantly) thought process were all eerily similar to Bob’s way of working. Since then we have been truly blessed to have Cyril with us. He has poured his guts and all of his considerable brains into the Little Phatty; a project that would not have been possible without his efforts."

I completely missed this assuming that the reference was to the Little Phatty and the unreleased goody comment was a reflection of that point in time, but if that were the case it would have been worded differently [an unreleased goody at that point in time!]. Hmm... BTW, cheers to Cyril. Keep that torch burning.

rekem1000 - Greatings from Australia

rekem1000 sent me a greetings from Australia along with a link to his flickr set. Title link takes you there. There are some amazing shots in this set so do check it out. Thanks rekem1000! Man I love the color in this shot.

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.