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Cover for Moog Taurus II

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"original cover for a Moog Taurus II bass synth. This is the cover for the "brain" of the unit. We do not have the cover for the pedal section of the synth."

Electro Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer

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"Electro Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer Model EH 0400. Filters and Phaser built in"

Sample at auction and here.

MOOG Opus 3

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"ELECTRONIC STRINGS, HORNS, EQUALIZED ORGAN SIMULATION, & CRAZY ELECTRONIC SOUNDS"

via steve of buried in time

"It's compiled of 606, 909, 303, FR-revolution jams that were hacked up and passed around to various producers in Portland. 10 tracks in all that touch on many moods/styles in electronic music. from 4/4 bangers to hip hop tempo'd head nodders and totally hacked up DSP'd grooves.

The sample pack that everyone used to make their songs is also available for download if anyone is curious where the songs got their start or perhaps wants to have a go at making their own version.

A medley of clips of all 10 tracks can be heard on the website or the myspace/virb pages."

check it out.

Don Buchla - A History of Buchla's Musical Instruments

You can find the video link on this page. You can find a link to a PDF here. Also see this interview.
And of course see the Buchla link below under Labels for everything Buchla on MATRIXSYNTH.

City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival

"City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on May 2-3, 2008. The list of performers includes musicians from around the U.S. heard on Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star's End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more.

Musical styles will range from ambient to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to electropop to space rock to experimental. All music will be performed, this is NOT a DJ event.

We have chosen Kavarna in the Oakhurst area of Decatur for the concert venue. Kavarna gives us a perfect vibe for our inaugural event, with a nice selection of food and beverage for festival attendees."
For more info including the full lineup, click here.

Update: Richard Devine who's been mentioned in a post or two here on MATRIXSYNTH will be performing.

Update via Jim in the comments: Photos from the event are now up at http://www.cityskies.com/photoswrek.html

Synth Noise Box

flickr by NOMOMUSIC

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"Shawn Royal of sirkut electronics built this synth for me. I sent him these two toy telegraph boxes, with some vintage dakaware knobs, and after 2 years, he sent me back this crazy thing."

Kurzweil K2500XS Audio Elite Keyboard - $19,995.00 New

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"The K2500 Audio Elite System (AES, pictured above) is a Rolls Royce version of the K2500 masterpiece. It comes with every single option available to the K2500 and is fully expanded with ROM and RAM to the max! It also includes extra peripherals such as 2 DMTIs and a CD-ROM drive. And finally it has the most elegant and classiest look of any synthesizer ever! This is truly the World's most powerful and amazing Synthesizer ever...it list's for $19,995.00! The K2600 series is virtually identical to the K2500. With all the same and compatible options and features, the K2600 adds increased preset V.A.S.T wave memory with a standard 12MB expandable to 44MB as opposed to the K2500's 8MB expandable to 28MB."
via Ryan

Does a Cow say Moo or Moe?

This image is actually from the prior post's flickr set. I thought the cow analogy was pretty interesting. As children we are pretty much taught a cow says moo, but if you ever heard one actually moo it sounds more like a sustained moe, or the like. If someone says you pronounce MOOG like moo of a cow, what are they saying?

So, does a chicken say boc, broc or ba-cack?!