Belgian Electronic Instruments Festival

"A meeting between musicians, intruments and sound lovers ! The goal is to "promote" electronic instruments and discover them the best way : by playing them !

We also want to mix people from different horizons, active or not in the belgian electronic music scene.

Everyone coming to the BEIF is invited to bring their electronic instruments. You will be able to show (off) your own abilities and test other people's instruments. And this time it won't be like the music store : nobody is going to ask you "May I help you ?"

As it is our first edition, we don't know yet how things are going to turn out. But after the speaking-testing-playing-drinking time of the afternoon, it's up to us to turn the whole thing into a delightful jam session of experimental noises."

via Thomas B:

"I organise the Belgian Electronic Instruments festival this weekend. I thought you might be interested for a post. It's basicaly a vintage/new synth meeting in the center of Brussels, with jam sessions and concert during the evening."

Thanks Thomas! Title link takes you to more info.

Livewire Dual Cyclotron

via ross healy.

Tangerine Dream / Klaus Schulze

via frederic. YouTube via boty81.

MIDIBox SID and SEQ 36

flickr by ludo_d.

Title link takes you to the set including shots of the inside.

The Atari Punk Console

Click here for a post on the APC by Wild Zebra on electro-music.com. There is a larger shot there and a link to a sample of the box (mirrored here).

"Firstly it starts out with 3 simple Soundlab tracks: Long ramp LFO, Filter A/R noise and S&H using manual trigger. Then we go into some CrackleBox with an over dub of Atari Punk Console, and on to some Theremin (boards that v-un-v had available) with alittle Weird sound generator to finish it off. No effects."

Funny, the intro reminded me of the intro to this.

New Products From Native Instruments

Title link takes you to the products page for Native Instruments. There are a few new synths including MASSIVE, FM8, Absynth4, and Battery3. Note the new UI for FM8; gone is the tribute to the classic Yamaha DX7.

via sequencer.de

Sequential Circuits Pro 8

Title link takes you to a post on VSE (while it's up) with more shots put up by Carbon111. I saved the shots here for when the post dissapears. Hopefully Carbon111 will put up a page on the Pro 8, but we are still waiting for this one. Come on Tom Waits! Get a move on it! Maybe after the bath? ; )

Optical CV Manipulation

Trip. Note this is different than the Modular LED Voltage Monitor. This actually acts as a sensor similar in concept to a theremin, but using light. Title link takes you to the post by UNIT-SOUND on Synthwire. There is a link to more shots in his flickr set.

Happy Birthday Emily - Hartmann Neuron Video

Ok, I really need to watch these videos in entirety before putting them up; sometimes you actually get to see these here before me folks. What can I say, I put you all before me. : ) So... I had this video up on this post. I finally got around to watching the whole thing, and whoah, there is a Hartmann Neuron in it and it's actually a pretty good demo of it. Amazing. Enjoy.

Serge with Livewire PLan B

Via ross healy. You might recognize the system from this post.