MATRIXSYNTH

NAMM: Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Always In Perfect Harmony At NAMM Show

YouTube via gearwire
"Bringing vocal harmonization and vocoding to more compact places than ever before, Electro-Harmonix shows off the Voice Box at Winter NAMM 2009, which is great for all those late nights at the office or for all the countless situations where I've had to vocode on the go.

See more on Gearwire.com."

FARFISA SYNTORCHESTRA DEMO

YouTube via AnalogAudio1. Video removed?: see this post.
HIGH QUALITY SOUND! Metalic case version. Played with digital delay
"This Syntorchestra is the metalic case version, wich looks very cool ;-). The design of it looks a bit like an ARP synth. It was often used by Klaus Schulze (on his album Moondawn), Vangelis, Ash Ra (Ashra). It is heard on many classic electronic music records in the seventies.
I played the syntorchestra with an digital delay. Enjoy!"

E75 Slow Strings

YouTube via FlametopFred. Yamaha Electone E75.

Hobnox audiotool - secret box - ambiant 808 jam

YouTube via danmusicstoke
"my first time using the browser based hobnox audiotool.
i diddent want to make the cliche acid track so i went for a minimal ambiant aprochusing onley the tb 808 sim and the stompboxes. hope you like it =D

ill have more hobnox vids up soon.

in the mean time have ago yourself @ http://www.hobnox.com/audiotool.1046....

its a flash so anyone can use it because its free =].

more of my music at http://www.myspace.com/danmusicstoke"

Talk by computer music pioneer Peter Zinovieff [London]

image via peterzinovieff on MySpace

This one in via fabio.

"Music and Geology or Geology, Electronic Music and Opera :: Wednesday February 4, 2009 :: 6:30 for 7:00pm :: London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education :: 23 - 29 Emerald St, London WC1N 3QS, England :: Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane :: Map:

The talk is about three enterprises of excellence that Zinovieff has been intimately involved in. He describes his making the first geological map of the Cuillins mountains in Skye (1958), the problems of his early computers (1960’s) in electronic music contrasted to some present day experiments (2008), and the preparation of his libretto for “The Mask of Orpheus” (1984) by Birtwistle.

He shows that these wildly different endeavours are not so dissimilar when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of their
actual creation.

The lecture of 40 minutes will be accompanied by archive videos, sounds and slides, as well as a display of rocks, pictures and electronic objects.

Peter Zinovieff is a pioneer of electronic and computer music. He is a British inventor of Russian ethnicity, most notable for his EMS company, which made the famous VCS3 synthesiser in the late ’60s. The synthesiser was used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and White Noise, Krautrock groups like Kraftwerk as well as more pop oriented artists, a good example being David Bowie.

Zinovieff also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle’s opera The Mask of Orpheus.

CAS 1968-2009 - has been supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years

Future CAS meetings include:

Wed 4 Mar - Francesca Franco
Wed 1 Apr - Joel Parthemore
Wed 6 May - Jorn Ebner"

PLAN B DIRECT GOES LIVE!

"Electro-Acoustic Research is happy to announce that the PLAN B DIRECT sales portal is now operational. You may now purchase Plan B goods directly through us, or be directed to dealers which currently stock our goods.

Click on the PURCHASE tab at ear-group.net to have a look around!

With our upcoming move back to the Los Angeles metro area and the reemergence of our direct sales portal we thank you for your continued support."

genoQs Octopus

via this auction
http://www.genoqs.com
FRAMEWORK
Sequence grid: 144 pages - popularly known as 'patterns'
Tracks per page: up to 10, with up to 16 steps each
Track resolution: up to 1/192 of a note
USER INTERFACE
Elements: 258 pushbuttons, 21 endless encoders
Front panel: 630 x 270 mm

PERFORMANCE
Concurrent play: up to 9 pages or chains thereof
Editing capabilities: full during play, seamless saving
Track play: polyphonic, shuffle, groove, roll
DIMENSIONS
700 x 450 x 140 mm, 8 Kg

4 vids on triggering synths live with drumkits

via Stuff Linear/Amsterdam

"I have found some nice examples of the incorporation of synths and drumming.
In all the videos the drums trigger envelopes and/or drive the clock.
Mostly i notice people using the very versatile Nord Modulars for this kind of stuff.

This one is all analogue with Juno and Doepfer, by Analogueeak (he has several vids up, check m out)

analog modular with bass drum trigger and juno 082508

YouTube via analogueak. [You might remember this one from this post.]

This one is starring Andre Duracell playing the BubbleBobble Theme. He allso has several vids up. I chose this one because you see a bit of gear.
He uses the Nord G2 Engine and a laptop.

Duracell plays Bubble Bobble tune

[Duracell plays Bubble Bobble tune live @ San Giustino, Italy 24-04-2007]

The Amiga SpaceHarrier theme by the same Mister Duracell;

André Duracell - Space Harrier

YouTube via HormonaRictus
[André Duracell performs Space Harrier
Palais de Tokyo - Paris # 02.11.06]

This one stars Sebastian Arnold using the Nord Modular G2 (keys) and lots of other gear.

trigger drums synthesizer song

YouTube via batzberlin [also see this performance]
[Acoustic drumset attached via MIDI-triggers to a Clavia Nord Modular G2 playing a jazz-funky song.]

My own little tryout with 2 Nord Micro Modulars.

test with diy trigger and mixer stuff into clavia microoos