Musical interfaces @ Maker Faire

Musical interfaces @ Maker Faire from Collin Cunningham on Vimeo.
"Here's a short vid showing just a few of the many musical interfaces on hand at Bay Area Maker Faire. There were so many awesome instruments - so little time to play them all!"

R2 Dancing at Maker Faire 2008

YouTube via r2d2astromech. Imagine a synthesizer that moves.
"R2 dancing with children at Maker Faire 2008"

Groovy Babes on Oldschool-Sound

Before you click, this one is NOT safe for work (NSFW). I actually put this up back in October of 2005. It popped up on the AH list yesterday and brian c forwarded it along, so here it is for those that missed it. Enjoy, or not...

Phils serge knobs

flickr by cray5656

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"serge knobs on eurorack"

Polly...

flickr by cnbirk

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MOOG Little Phatty
JoMoX XBase09
Roland SH-101
Future Retro Mobius

Blue LEDs

Sounds vom Synthesizer

via swissdoc:
"'Sounds vom Synthesizer' was a radio show from the German station HR3 (Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt). It was aired every two weeks from January 1983 to December 1986. The show was moderated first by Volkmar Krammarz and later by Rainer Sauer.

The show presented music made with synthesizers, run interviews with artists in the studio in Frankfurt (i.e. Propaganda, Klaus Schulze, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Howard Jones, Michael Rother, Ash Ra Tempel, Kraftwerk, Art of Noise or Spliff to name a few).

In addition specials like the regular series 'Per Anhalter durch die Synthesizergeschichte' (The Hitchhiker's Guide to Synth History), 'We are Producers' or the 'Electronic Poll' (Reader Poll) have been part of the show.

Even synth tests or reports from Musikmesse FFM have been sent in the later shows, Equipment rangin from Kurzweil K250 to sampler cards for C64 or Apple ][.

Rainer Sauer is working these days for Radio Jena, where the old series is aired again every Saturday. Under the name 'Synthesizer Studio' it is available as a online stream from Webradio ZONO.

http://www.mynewradio.de/html/programm.html

Shows are sent in random order every night in the time from 00:00 to 04:00 MESZ (MESZ = UTC + 2h). Times are indicative, the timing is not really strict. There may be up to 3 shows during one night, but in some cases no show is sent.

The streaming URL (128 kbit mp3) is http://zono01.host01-he.comc.name:8000 [Open this one in a streaming player like Winamp AND read this full post for when to listen].

Later Rainer Sauer was organising from 1986 till 1989 the Frankfurter Synthesizertage titled 'White Waves', recording of live concerts are aired via Webradio ZONO as well under the same streaming URL later.

Text based on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_vom_Synthesizer"

Audio Playground Synth and Drum Machines For Sale

You can find the full list of items here. pictured:
-Rare (Fricke) MFB-512 analog drum machine (more info on MFB)
-Rare Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 rev. 1 "There where only 183 ever made of the Revision one. It used the SSM chip set not the CEM chip set that the Revision 2 went to. It also used a now rare Koa-wood case (gorgeous) that also change with the revision 2 . The power switch is on the front panel also not like the later rev. 2 & 3."
http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/

RIP: Morgan Sparks, transistor inventor

via Boing Boing

"Stephanie Holinka of Sandia National Laboratories tells Boing Boing,

'We are sad to report the death of former Sandia Labs Director Morgan Sparks. He's best known as the Bell Labs researcher who invented the first practical transistor. His work made possible so many other inventions. Without transistors, one cannot begin to imagine personal computers, cell phones, DVD players and the many other electronic devices we rely on daily. His contributions are pretty humbling to mere English majors like me.'"

Report on his passing
Profile on PBS

Untitled

flickr by danmcp

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"Hand-made cardboard model by Dan McPharlin. Produced for Esquire magazine. View the full set"

Hobnox Audiotool Tutorial

YouTube via Hobnox
"A tutorial video of the Hobnox Audiotool, showing users how to create beats with our flash recreations of vintage synthesizers."