Bent Festival 2009 Open Call - NYC

"Looks like the 2009 Bent Festival is set to happen in New York this year. There has been talk about not having the festivals back to back as they were in the past, but this point we don’t know the dates or whether the Minneapolis and LA events will happen. For those who have never attended a Bent Fest, I highly recommend it as a great opportunity to meet fellow musicians and artists as well as to check out all the bent gear in 3D. The workshops are also extremely informative and do cover a wide spectrum of interests from beginner to very advanced topics."
more info on GetLoFi.

Big City Music to Offer Foltek Instruments

"From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of a kind. Most of their instruments are crafted into beautiful antique boxes too. These are not your typical circuit bent instruments. The way you can "play" them varies tremendously and Folktek offers some alternative user interaction with their pieces. Check back with us as we will get more pieces soon."
http://bigcitymusic.com via the Big City Music blog.

jasmim experimental

YouTube via atomsizeelephant
"a jasmim, de 2 anos e uns dias, olhou para o sintetizador do pai e pensou... "vou mostrar ao pai que percebo mais disto que ele..." e assim foi!"
Googlish:
"the jasmine of 2 years and a few days, looked at the father's synthesizer and thought ... "I will show that the father understand more what it ..." and it was!"

Sid

via g.

"Here is my late Cat, Sid... he loved hanging out with me when I worked on the synth, and also patch cables were one of his good games ;)

I thought it would be cool to put on your blog!

Sid-Charlot:
Mar 1996-
Sep 2008"

Definitely cool, and definitely gets a post. Cats and pets in general are the few things in life that unconditionally have your back, through the good and the bad times. Cheers to Sid.

Situation Gaz

YouTube via Gazdatronik. via fischek.
"I put together Yazoo's Situation. I like this idoitic little song. I play Micromoog, Macintosh plays everything else. Been meaning to do this since I was ten."
"Tags:
Situation Yaz Yazoo Vince Clarke Alison Moyet Moog Micromoog Roalnd JX-3p JX3p Korg dw-8000 Oberheim matrix 80's dance 1983 move out Gazdatronik"

Circuit Bent Yamaha RX-21 Drum Machine #6

YouTube via anode8. watch your ears/speakers on this one.
"Yet another of my wooden paneled Yamaha RX Drum Machines. Two feedback filters, two distortion/glitch switches, and 2 5-way rotary switches."

Analogue Systems rs290 Crushes Your Bits Too

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Man. There's not much this module doesn't do. Besides an incredible sounding high-quality stereo digital delay with built LFO and a hard to beat voltage controlled sampler mode, the rs290 can crush your sounds too. This great little trick doesn't even require the unit to be engaged. Just select sample size, reduce, and abuse.

Our sound source is the Elektron SFX-60 Mk II MonoMachine."

Wiard meets morbius

Custom Future Retro Morbius faceplate via CustomSynth

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The Audiotool Experiment

HOBNOX Contest

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Curiousity 1

flickr by eliza_brown


Anyone know what synth that is?

Alesis ION per DustySchematics in the comments.

And maybe not. Update via EmptySet int he comments: "I thought at first that was an Ion too… it's color, the red knob on the right, jacks look similar.

However, I have an Ion and just looked at it and the position of all the outputs and inputs looks all wrong in the photo. For example, the MIDI ports on my Ion would appear where the CURIOSITY label is."

Update: I'm pretty sure it's a Micron. I actually have one and took a look. The angle in the images makes it look a bit shorter than it actually is.