David's "STAR WARS" on KOCO 5 Alive News (1978)

YouTube via quantumdave. via Nusonica.

"In 1978, KOCO 5 Alive News came to Producers Workshop to do a piece about the music business. It ended up being a feature on me . . . Al Franken. Just Kidding. Me . . . David Powell, and my synthesizer version I was working on from the "original" score of
'STAR WARS'."

Veqtor - Analogik1

"So, I had been spending loads of time at EMS, where i study electro acoustic music composition and been recording a bunch of sessions with a buchla, serge and spring tank reverb and I thought: “Hey, this is pretty cool, maybe someone would like to listen to this?” So I decided to release it for free! Basically everything is recorded on the fly, sometimes several takes on top of eachother. I plan on releasing more of ‘em as I go along, I’m actually on my way there right now. What are you waiting for?"

click here for the download.

Aliens Project Toy of the Month - MOOG Modular

click here for more images and samples on Aliens Project.

POLIVOKS (aka POLYVOX, POLIVOX, POLYVOKS) - Interviews

"For many years Russian Federation has been an isolated economy. Ministry of Culture, for example, wouldn't allow import of foreign instruments and Soviet musicians at the time didn't have a musical instrument that would offer capabilities and sounds of the equipment available to the rest of the world. This had triggered creation of a completely new and unique instrument.

Polivoks was designed by an engineering team lead by Vladimir Kuzmin from the Urals Vector Company later built by Formanta Radio Plant in the early 80's. First commercially available Polivoks was sold in 1982 with the last unit sold in 1990. Polivoks is one of the most popular vintage synths today because of its history and extraordinary industrial look. Many consider its sound capabilities to be comparable to a MiniMoog."

click here for more including two interviews. via Kevin in the comments of this post.

"Counterfeit Umbrella" Video Single!

YouTube via inverseroom.
"Inverse Room dramatizes the recording of his song "Counterfeit Umbrella" earlier this month at Mabel Sound."

"--it's not a very synthy song, just one solo line from the Frac/Euro modular (with particular attention to the Harvestman Malgorithm and Wiard Borg Filter). But you can also make out some other vintage keyboards in there, including the Yamaha SY-2, SCI Pro One, Yamaha YC-25D, and a Wurlitzer 206."

You can find more at www.inverseroom.com

Workspace and Environment: Atom™

I have to get me a chair like that for my MicroKorg.

click here for the post on trash_audio.

Electronic Music Box #4

via this auction. via Tony

"The Electronic Music box is a hand built, custom designed, small format, one of a kind, modular analog electronic instrment. The design is inspired by classic Buchla and Serge modular synth systems.

Listen to it here:
Make Noise

The enclosure is reclaimed medical surplus.

The interface is entirely modular and analog and uses mini banana cables (supplied) for signal distribution. The size is 5"x7"x3"

The unit can run from a signle 9 Volt transistor battery or a 9 Volt wall transformer (supplied).

This instrument consist of the following sub-modules:

1 Clocked LFO Bank. A master clock drives a bank of 5 LFOs all of which are rythmic divisions of the master clock. The LFOs are arranged slowest to fastest (left to right) with the slowest capable of 3 minute cycles and the fastest going well into audio range (for sideband). Each LFO has it's own attenuator (useful for setting modulation amonts and achieving desired pitches from the oscillators).

3 Triangle Core Linear Voltage Controlled Oscillators with dynamic wave clipping which allows for the triangle wave to be shaped into a square wave as well as different variations of trapeziods. Each oscillator has 2 Frequency Modulation inputs, 1 output and panel controls for Frequency and Wave Clippping.

1 Six Channel Mixer with 2 attenuators and Master Volume Panel control.

1 Expression Pedal/ external input. 1/4" TRS socket with +5V supplied to the ring allowing for the use of an expression pedal. Additionally, this socket can be used as an external input for either Control Voltages or Signals.

A single LED indicates power on/ off, and a Wall Transformer may be connect via DC barrel jack on the faceplate.

With this box you can creat everything from gurgling sequences to pure noise to complex drones (listen to the demos). The LFOs are not the only sorce of modulation. The oscillators are capable of modulating each other and the external input allows for modlation from an another source.

The Electronic Music Box will ship with MANUAL, power supply and 14 mini banana cables."

MAQ 16/3+Doepfer+Dalek----3

YouTube via DavideModu.

Polymoog - slightly broken!

YouTube via buchla300.
"Here is my Polymoog 203a taken out of it's case for the first time in years! I bought it as in need of work, but it doesn't seem that bad. A few voices don't work, sometimes craps out and some waveshapes need sorting etc etc but, worth doing though as I LOVE polymoogs. Better than people think. Crap phone quality video. Sorry!"

keybdwizrd - Battling Monsters (softsynths)

YouTube via keybdwizrd.
"All software synths used. Bass - Oddity played via Polar keyboard. Sync Lead - NI Pro-53 played via M-Audio MIDI controller. Synth Lead - Arturia Minimoog V played via Micro X keyboard. Drum track sequenced in Digital Performer using MOTU MachFive2 sampling software."