MATRIXSYNTH

"Blue Light" by Dreamaiden

Here's an interesting release. "Blue Light" by Dreamaiden will be released in the massive online world, Second Life. The synth content? Aside from the drums it predominantly features the Alesis Andromeda A6.

via Steve: "I thought you might be interested to know about a synth based CD being launched in an interesting and unusual way. The CD is "Blue Light" by Dreamaiden. I was the mastering engineer on the project and it is a great showcase for the capabilities of the Alesis Andromeda. With the exception of the drums, the album is almost entirely created on the Alesis. Dreamaiden also runs the Abbacadabra gallery in Second Life, where she is hosting two launch parties for the CD on the 21st and 22nd of April. There is a listening booth where tracks from the CD can be auditioned, and DJ Plum is the MC for the event which is available as an audio stream. Here is a gratuitous shot of Dreamaiden in her second life persona! :) [Note the Roland JP-8000, what looks like an OSCar and one more synth in the shot below].

Her website also features a free mp3 download as well as a montage mp3 of the whole CD.

Cheers

Steve"

Little Phatty Filter In

Title link takes you to the demo via Suicide Lane.

Creating music with science

"Can an old electronic toy make melodies? JACOB ADELMAN finds a festival full of rewired gadgets used as instruments.
Hans Koch stood on stage with the disemboweled guts of a computer spread out on a table before him. He prodded the motherboard, floppy drive and modem with a pin and doused them with salt water. The components -- attached to a mixer and amplifier -- emitted bursts of noise that layered into a collage of static and feedback."

Title link takes you to more including a podcast.

Tristram Cary Interview on The Music Show

"Tristram Cary: Yes, that's right, and that's the master patch on the pin matrix of the VCS3. I mean we designed the VCS3, three of us in 1967 in direct competition with Bob Moag [sic, Moog], who was, poor chap's dead now, he had cancer, ten years younger than me. But we went over and saw Bob Moag [sic, Moog], I mean he was a great friend a very nice man. But his synthesizers were very expensive in England, so we said Well, we can - and I'll tell you what, there's a very interesting connection here because Don Banks, who was a good friend of mine in London, and I knew Don for 20 years before poor chap died of leukaemia [sic], he was doing films and stuff like me, and he came and saw us over in Putney, and said, Look, I'd love to get into electronic music, but I haven't got any knowledge, I can't build anything, can you make me something? My limit is 50 pounds, he said, can you make for 50 pounds a box of some sort which would be useful to a composer. So we got together, and we put it together, David put it together, and he was delighted. Don started using it straight away."

Title link takes you to the full interview. Via Rick. Also check out this post.

KORG Polysix Overlay

via one of the anonymous in the comments of this post:

"found this in the same site. curious?"

Yep... Anyone have any ideas?

Ga-Ga for Waldorf

Image via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments of this post. There is just something about this shot that makes me go Ga-Ga. In case you missed the update:

"... and it is my WAVE +16 (= 32 voice) shown here. A snapshot by someone taken during my last year's Planetarium concert of "EL-KA" (http://el-ka.synthmusic.info german only) in Bochum/Germany.
If you look to the yellow Waldorf Q in the back, you will notice the joy-stick someone added to my instrument.
Here is one from the other direction: link
You will see the other half of EL-KA there: HaJo Liese.
The CD recording is available at www.syngate.net and other EM music shops. And we will play at the Univercity of Eindhoven/The Netherlands next week's Saturday at the E-Day (http://e-day.groove.nl)

And by the way: I run the unofficial Waldorf WAVE pages located here:
link (german and english)

keep on turning these knobs

Till "Qwave" Kopper"