Au Revoir Simone

Au Revoir Simone is an all girl synth band. Title link takes you to their website featuring more images and music. Synths include a Roland Juno-60, Korg MicroKorg, and more.

via aux

Vanhekis

Title link takes you to a site featuring a track done with nothing but a Yamaha CS60.

via Boele.

Yamaha MM6

YouTube via animism. Via Shepitology.

Yamaha DX200

No title link, just the shots pulled via this auction. The DX200 can load DX7 patches.

Yamaha AN200

No title link, just the shots pulled via this auction.

Roland TR-808 Box

No title link, just the shot pulled via this auction. Sent my way via Kerry.

Street Electronics

"StreetElectronics.com offers analog synth topics /demos /sounds /music and completed designs of devices that make audio, video, light, and other sensory output. The devices are simply created from inexpensive and easily acquired parts and microcontrollers including Microchip PIC, Atmel AVR, Parallax STAMP, and Motorola 68HC11. Custom parts like the MOS Technology 6581 SID chip are also used." And a few synth pics and audio demos including The Mumbler, a MIDI controlled speech synth. Title link takes you there. Via steve electronics in the comments of this post.

Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music

I added another book to the list of Synth Books to the right. This one is via Barry Schroder, featured in these previous posts. The book is out of print, however you can find copies here.

Details pulled from here:
"This book presents a detailed panorama of electroacoustic music’s principal trends. His approach includes general ideas (terminology, role, listening experience), interviews with several important composers, instruments and devices, the principal historical and current techniques and the studios. Each element includes numerous examples of musical works.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Musique concrète and tape manipulation techniques
- Pierre Schaeffer and the Études of 1948
- Tape loops
- Cutting and splicing
- Speed change
- Direction change
- Tape delay
- Combined tape and manipulation techniques
3. Electronic music
- Electro-acoustic musical instruments
- Electronic music and optical sound tracks
- Classical studio electronic music: the Cologne studio and its precursors
- Classical studio electronic music: the development of classical studio
- Electronic music synthesizers
- Computer music
- Live/electronic music
4. The art of electro-acoustic Music: interviews with composers
- Interview with Luciano Berio (Thema: Omaggio a Joyce)
- Interview with Pauline Oliveros (I of IV)
- Interview with Morton Subotnick (Until Spring)
- Interview with Jean-Claude Risset (Mutations I)
- Interview with Gordon Mumma (Cybersonic Cantilevers)
5. Bibliography"

Roland Jupiter-6

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Tenori-On

Remember the Tenori-On by Toshi Iwai? Looks like it's coming to market with build in sound module, speakers and sampling. Title link takes you to a video on Sonic State.

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