Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman's A Troll's Story

PRESS RELEASE:

"Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman have released a web-based children's story called "Troll's Story".

Perrey and Countryman wrote the text for the children's book and scored all the original music, and they have made both the text and music available for free downloading on the internet.

It can be found here

The narrator for the children's story is Tricia Meier-Countryman. The project is a spin-off from Perrey and Countryman's recent Oglio Records CD "The Happy Electropop Music Machine." The duo re-edited and re-scored their original synthesizer music to fit the story, which was written and inspired by their original "Troll's Story" music from the Oglio CD.

Perrey and Countryman are making the project a free download, to be enjoyed by children of all ages.

To find out more about "The Happy Electropop Music Machine", go to: link

Artist Information:
Jean Jacques Perrey: Synthesizer.com synthesizer, Moog synthesizers and Ondioline Dana Countryman: Synthesizers.com synthesizer.

Jean Jacques Perrey is a legend in the electronic music field as a pioneer of that genre. He was the SECOND musician to ever own and record with the Moog Synthesizer, back in 1967. His music has been sampled by countless popular acts, including Ice T, Gangstarr and Fatboy Slim. At age 78, he is still creating and still touring.

Perrey's musical partner is arranger and musician Dana Countryman, who co-composed the music and co-wrote the story for "Troll's Story."
Perrey and Countryman released their first CD for Oglio Records, "The Happy Electropop Music Machine" in 2006.
It is available on Amazon.com and on iTunes.com, among many other outlets.

The duo are currently writing and recording their next CD for Oglio Records, due out in the summer of 2009. In the last year and a half, Perrey and Countryman have performed in Berlin, Seattle, San Francisco, Hollywood, Amsterdam, Russia, France and Norway. They are heading off to England next."

You can also find more info on Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman in these previous posts.

Update: some notes on the instruments used via Dana:
"We predominately used my big modular from Synthesizers.com. We also used my Korg MS-2000R a lot. My loyal DX-7 was used (sparingly), especially for the bass line in the "Furioso Disco" section. I also love it for it's "organ" sounds and bells. Jean-Jacques played his trademark Ondioline for the solo in the first segment ("Morning Theme".) In addition, we ran samples through Reason, mostly for JJ's crazy "tape loops". Analog, digital: whatever it takes to get the 'sound.'"

JH. Compact Clone Now Available for Order

Ordering info via JH on AH:
"(See link for details about the project.) Pricing is EUR 27.00 per board, plus EUR 10.00 for 8 LDRs plus a single EUR 4.00 shipping flat charge for worldwide shipping, regardless how many boards you are ordering and where you live. It does *not* include any customs fees or tax that you may (or may not) have to pay in your county.

What you get is a double-sided printed circuit board with component overlay, approx. size 160mm x 100mm, plus eight LDRs (Light depending resistors). You have to buy the other electronic components for this, and build the device, yourself. (Check the above website regularly for updates and building hints, bill of matrials etc. A PDF with the component overlay is already there.)

I'll wait for the orders to come in for about 2 weeks from now.

Estimated time line:
2 weeks for taking orders
several weeks for PCB manufacturing and verifying
Call for payment (don't pay before you get that mail!)
Shipping of boards when payment arrives
I don't know whether shipping will be before Chrismas, or in the next year.
I will only ask for payment when the boards are ready for shipping. (Don't send any money before that.)
If you want to place an order, please send me an email to the following adress:
jhaible/-/at/-/debitel/-/dot/-/net (remove and replace the obvious characters) and use the FOLLOWING FORM (fill in your data instead of [], for instance: "2 Boards" instead of "[quantity] Boards") Don't forget the *subject line* with the right quantity filled in, in your email!

===== Start of Email Order Form ===============

Subject line: Krautrock Phaser order: [quantity] boards
Email text: I'm ordering [quantity] pieces of the Krautrock Phaser PCB for EUR 27.00 per board
+ EUR 10.00 for 8 LDRs per board
+ EUR 4.00 single shipping flat charge for any number of boards.
I'm aware that I may have to pay additional amounts of customs and tax in my country.

My shipping adress is
[Your Name]
[Your street, number, city, ZIP code, in exactly the form that is generally used in your country]
[your country]
My paypal adress is [your paypal adress].
[your name]

===== End of Email Order Form ========="

BTW, mention you saw it on MATRIXSYNTH if you order one. I'm curious how many JH gets from here vs. AH. No I'm not competing, no I don't get anything out of this and no, it's not for boosting my ego. I'm just curious people. If you feel weird about mentioning it, then don't.

Workspace and Environment: Zach Goheen

click here for the full post on trash_audio.

"Wurlitzer "super-sprite" funmaker. It's a 70s console organ with built in drum machine and speakers. It has buttons labeled with things like "magic chords" and "latin". Of all the keyboards in the studio, thats the first one to get played when someone new comes over. It;s a one man fun band - especially when the Echoplex has its way with it."

Devi Ever : Effector 13 - Spectacular Aenima - white noise

YouTube via wwwEFFECTOR13com.
"This is what the SP AE does if you have nothing plugged in and tweak it just right. Go a little too far one way or the other though and you get crazy oscillation (sometimes sounds like radio interference though!) Check out the end with a little sub oscillation trying to break in, sounds like heavy winds over loading a microphone."

Digital Dub Siren by Oceanus

YouTube via xd515.
"Here is a brand new design.. a Digital Dub Siren, 3 oscillators, arpeggios, noise, sweeps.. watch out for the super long 'Auto Siren' If you want one, the details are at the end of the clip :-)"

Cakewalk Founder Greg Hendershott Interview on CDM

"I think when I was there [Oberlin College] we got the first [Yamaha] DX7 [synthesizer]. That came into the lab, and everyone was really excited — and totally baffled about how to program it, because we were used to the Moog modular kind of synths where you literally had the patch cords around your necks and were making patches by [connecting] cords. So, to figure out FM synthesis was a little tricky. Working with a big modular synth was tactile and interactive. And then you had this small screen."

click here for the interview on Create Digital Music.

Roland JD-800

images via this auction

"Roland JD-800 ( JD 800 ) Synth including 5 Sound Libraries (SL-JD 80). This keyboard is 61 keys, Velocity & Channel Aftertouch(working on all 61 keys) w/ 4 velocity curves; 24 voice polyphony; 6 Parts Multitimbral (Multi mode): 5 part multitimbral + drum mode; Sound memory: 64 internal RAM patches storage positions plus 64 Rom-card patches; Tone generation: S+S (Sampling and Synthesis) with resonant filters; 6 MegaByte ROM with 108 PCM Waves plus 5 Libraries of ROM plug in cards(one for wave(up to 131 per library) and one for the 64 additional patches per library) Libraries include SL-JD80-02 Drums & Percussion DANCE, SL-JD80-03 Rock Drums, SL-JD80-04 Strings Ensemble, SL-JD80-05 Brass Section, SL-JD80-08 Accordion."

360 Systems Spectre Guitar Synth

images via this auction

"360 Systems Spectre Guitar Synthesizer circa 1978. Unit in original tolex case, no manual what you see is what you get. Unit was modified to respond to CV/Gate inputs. I did not preform this mod so I cannot answer any questions other than it does respond to standard 1 V per octave CV and gate from an Arp Sequencer. This is essentailly an Oberheim SEM in a portable tolex case minus one envelope gen, you might be able to mod it and add the second envelope as the boards are original Oberheim SEM 'A'." Also see this post.

KORG Polysix

images viathis auction

MOOG Polymoog Service Manual

images via this auction. You can see what a previous one went for in this post.

"Moog Polymoog Synthesizer?Keyboard/Polypedal Service Manuals Volumes I & II."