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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Appendage Proto Board - S&H With Klee


YouTube via ScottStites
"This is a quick video to show the fellow proto-builders the "OR" sample/gate function of the Appendage"

Circuit Bent Floppy Drive with "The Fisher Price Interface"


YouTube via LofiNinja
"Circuit Bent Floppy Drive with "The Fisher Price Interface""

Roland Promars compuphonic


YouTube via massonix
"Vintage Keyboard collection from S.M.M.O.K.T. home of the Sisters Of Transistors (the U.K.s number 1 ladies organ quartet)"
Also see this post on AnalogSuicide for another video.

Gorillaz & ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet


YouTube via theondes

"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net -
Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz, "The Good, The Bad and The Queen" leader) works in his studio (London) with music supervisor David Coulter and French multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Thomas Bloch (ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet) who he has played as well with Radiohead as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world) during the preparation of his first opera : "Monkey: Journey to the West", in April 2007.

Thomas Bloch informations: http://www.thomasbloch.net
Damon Albarn informations : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Al...
David Coulter informations : http://profile.myspace.com/davidcoulter
"Monkey: Journey to the West" informations : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey:_...

Other names : Ones Martenot (Catalan), Ondas Martenot (Spain, Portugal), Martenot waves (English), Onde Martenot (Italy), Fale Martenota (Poland), 0™0Û0...0˚0fi0Î0»0Œ (Japan) - wrong name : Martinot / armonica de verre (France), Armonica de vidro, orgue de verre (France, Belgium), crystal harmonica, crystal armonica, glass organ, crystal organ, Armónica de cristal (Spain), Armonica a bicchieri (Italian), glasharmonika (Germany, Denmark, Sweden), glassharmonika (Norway), Harmonika szklana (Poland), 0¢0Î0‚0À0´ (Japan), close instruments : glass harp, glassharfe, glass harfe, harpe de verre, verrophon, verrophone, seraphim, verres musicaux, musical glasses"

Ondes Martenot / Messiaen 4° Feuillet Inédit by Thomas Bloch

YouTube via theondes

"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net - Olivier Messiaen "4ème Feuillet Inédit" played by Jean-François Zygel (piano) and the French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bloch (glassharmonica, ondes Martenot, cristal Baschet) who has played as well with Radiohead, Gorillaz as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world, during a french national TV program ("La boîte à musique de Jean-François Zygel - spéciale Noël"). December 21, 2007

Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net
Jean-François Zygel informations : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-fra...

Ondes Martenot /virtuosistic Formule by Thomas Bloch-TV 1999


"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net - "Formule" is one of the most virtuosistic piece written for solo ondes Martenot, composed by and played here by the French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bloch himself (ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet) who has played as well with Radiohead, Gorillaz, John Cage as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world (Milano Scala, Paris opera...).
A short excerpt of the piece taken from a TV program recorded in Paris Musée de la Musique. June 8, 1999.

To hear and see the complete work, a more recent version played live at the Barbican Center (London) was added recently on youtube:

Live ondes Martenot in Barbican (London) by Thomas Bloch



"Video recorded live in the Barbican Center, London (October 2007)."

for more videos including the Glass Harmonica see theondes YouTube channel.

Gil Trythall - Yakety Moog


YouTube via norcyka84
"Gil Trythalls "Yakety Moog" released in 1970 on the Album "Country Moog - Switched On Nashville". Boots Randolph remaked it for the Benny Hill Show, on the Title "Yakety Sax". It was the Theme of the legendary Show."

NAMM: Solaris Pics

click here for the pics via Carbon111 via the comments of this post.

inputout demonstration performance


inputout demonstration performance from Dylan Spence on Vimeo.
"Gabriel Roth and Ed Function demo the inputout series' breadboard prototypes in a science dub out!

The interface instruments are triggering and modulating a nord modular synthesizer, a roland jx3p and some drum samples. It all goes into a space echo pedal. Interfaces made using Arduino and Max-Msp. The audio is recorded from a microphone sitting in front of a speaker.
lo-fi!"

UNOST' - 21 soviet USSR strings poly synth

via this auction
via cubensis on the forum
"UNOST' - 21 polyphonic synthesizer/strings. The complete set includes an original case, an external power unit, 5Din to 1\4 jack a connecting cord. It runs on 220V AC. You can download sounds from my site

Synthesis sections:
- TUNING zone: 2 X small screws for tuning;
- MODULATIONS zone: depth; frequency; delay; switch between filter/oscillator;
- FILTER zone: range; brightness; depth;
- ENVELOPE zone: attack; decay; level;
- PRESET zone (this synth has some presets, but presets can be turned on or off; keyb control knob; screen - 2 digi/number led - showing bank/preset as well as small 'commas'indicating if preset is turned off and if keyb contrl is turned off; on/off switch;
- CONNECTIONS: this one has just 2 X 5din connectors. One is output, the other is AC in."

J.Force bangin' a beat on the classic EMU SP 1200 sampler


YouTube via producerworld
"http://www.myspace.com/jforcebeats
http://www.cratekings.com
http://www.wonkabeats.com"

NAMM: WNAMM09: M-Audio Axiom Pro Wows ProTools User


See the write-up on Sonic State.
That ends the latest round of synth centric NAMM vids from Sonic State. Be sure to see their News feed fore more NAMM coverage.
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