Terry Riley's ''In C"

"This was billed as the first performance of ''In C'' by an all-electronic ensemble, and it was exciting to see on the same platform such a diverse array of people and machines: Robert Moog and one of his classic synthesizers, Donald Buchla and an apparatus from which sounds were squeezed out by mallets, Zeena Perkins and a small electronic harp making decisive attacks, Pauline Oliveros on accordion, two members of the X-ecutioners niftily handling turntables, Greg Howard adding grungy harmonies on his Chapman stick, John Musto and George Steel often keeping the pulse steady and fast on a Yamaha Disklavier, and many more, on instruments both standard (electric guitar, ondes martenot, theremin) and irregular."

Title link takes you to the review. Unfortunately there aren't any images or clips. If anyone knows more about this event please feel free to comment. It must have been amazing just to see them all together on state.

Combination Threshold/Gate/Trigger/Sample/Hold Circuit

"The chaos generators being developed here are of the "flow" variety. This means that the outputs are continuosly varying voltages. It is important to be able to generalize these by deriving chaotic sequences of discrete voltages and chaotic sequences of timing signals. The circuit below was designed to do just that."

Title link takes you to more info.

Drum Machine Display

flickr by Benedict W.

Title link takes you to the image with mouse over descriptions. I'm guessing from the tags the shot was taken at DEMF, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. The Roland TR-808 is labeled as Juan Atkins, father of Detroit Techno. The KORG SQD-1 Sequencer is labeled as Kevin Saunderson's, used to make "Big Fun." That would definitely be a little bit of history right there.

Update via Benedict W:
"Cheers man. The photo was taken in the exhibition room of Submerge records in Detroit. The equipment was all used by Detroit producers (and some of it still in use - see the 303 note)."

Serge Samples via Matt Carpenter

Title link takes you to them. There are quite a few.

Modular Cake

Title link takes you to more shots.

via Brandon.

Module Madness

flickr by felixinferious.

"Modules purchased for the Analogue Haven 2 Year Anniversary Sale."

Update: Looks like a post on this just went up on felix inferious with more info.

keybdwizrd - Four Virus TI and Micro X Duets

YouTube via keybdwizrd

"IMPORTANT NOTE: Although I am playing the Motif keyboard, it is trigging a Korg Micro X synthesizer (off camera)."

MOOG FreqBox Samples

Title link takes you to some samples sent my way via Earsmack Music. Each sample has a description.

Airböurne Modular Synthesizer AVS-04B

flickr by Brättli Airböurne. Title link takes you to more shots.

"4 Voice Modular Synthesizer, Cabinet B, with 2 VCO, 4 VCF, 4 AHDSR, 4 Stereo VCA, 2-4 Ringmodulators, Noice Sources, 2 Random CV generators and one four phase LFO. This Synthesizer is developed and manufactured by Martin Hollinger from Synthorama, Switzerland in October 2006."

Previous posts on the AVS

with a little help from my friend

flickr by marjanlaczek.