MATRIXSYNTH

Rouge no Dengon

"Originally sung by Yuming in 1975 - I tried to keep the retro feeling of the original. Moog bass, Prophet 08 and Juno pads... and lots of guitar..." You can find the track on khoral's Cafe 80.

Morton Subotnick Interviews

The first, more recent, video on Electronic Musician does not appear to support embedding. You can find it here. via John

The second interview follows:

Morton Subotnick Interview - IMR Software

YouTube via IMResearch
"This is an excerpt taken from an interview with Morton Subotnick, one of the United States' premier composers of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems.

In this interview, he speaks of our Vortex Surround Designer interface, which allows composers to work in multichannel audio without limitations.

IMR's Vortex Surround software facilitates the creative and expressive manipulation of individual sounds in space as well as the combining of these sounds into multichannel sound cues and fully immersive soundscapes.

http://www.mortonsubotnick.com

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http://www.im-research.com/

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Native Instruments Maschine Demo Performance by NuVintage

YouTube via NativeInstruments
"Kenny and Noel of acclaimed producer duo NuVintage show some of the advanced real-time capabilities of Native Instruments' new groove production studio "Maschine" at NAMM 2009.

For more videos on Maschine, visit http://www.native-instruments.com/mas..."

24x7digital MiniVLTone

"MiniVLTone for iPhone and iPod Touch is a shout-out to the 1980s handheld electronic era, paying homage to the Casio VL-Tone synthesizer. Jam back to the decade of one-hit-wonders and fondly recall the days when MTV still played music-videos! Listening to MiniVLTone's sampled beats will remind you of the rise of New Wave and Synth Pop, as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and playing some melodies on the chiclet keyboard will surely take you back to the time of 8-bit simplicity and Rubik's Cube complexity! And don't forget Trio's Da Da Da either! The Challenger and Chernobyl might be long gone, but SWING, ROCK-1, BOSSANOVA and SAMBA rhythms live on in Apple's iTunes App Store!

MiniVLTone includes the following features: 29 chiclet keyboard with OCTAVE control for four full octaves of square-wave synthesizer sonics, analog-style VOLUME slider control, five fantastic INSTRUMENTS (piano, fantasy, violin, flute, and guitar) in full circa-1981 monophonic fidelity, and ten awesomely eighties pre-drum-machine RHYTHMS (march ,waltz, 4-beat, swing, rock-1, rock-2, bossanova, samba, rhumba, and beguine), as well as the world-famously stylish DEMO SONG!

MiniVLTone does not include a calculator, recording mode, one-key-play, LCD display, or ADSR envelope programming, but it also does not require four AA-batteries!"
You can find MiniVLTone here:

Trio - Da Da Da

YouTube via Vohaa

"TRIO
1982/02/12, Markthalle, Hamburg
(maybe 1982, Alabama Halle, Munich)
German tv broadcast
Da da da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha
03:19
A live performance of the early German-English version.
Enjoy, aha!"

Return to the Helms!

via Peter Grenader of Plan B

"It's with great pleasure that I announce a return to the Helms Bakery Building after nine years. Electro-Acoustic Research and Plan B relocates from 252A S. Main St, Pomona, CA, moving it's synthesizer manufacturing facilities to 8800 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034."

XenoSonic DRSSTC Bach Little Fugue Tesla Coil Yamaha Synth

YouTube via eastvoltresearch. I thought I posted this one before, but apparently not. I must have been thinking of this post.
"A quick and dirty demonstration of the XenoSonic Audio Interface. A Yamaha S03 Synthesizer is hooked up directly to the miniBrute DRSSTC via the XenoSonic Audio Interface.

Since the XenoSonic only produces monophonic output, i prerecorded the Bach Fugue in Gminor on my Allen C-6 Classical organ and then simply added various voices using the Yamaha S03 in real time to the Tesla coil. Its quite a bit sloppy, but thats mostly because i didn't really practice how i was going to play individual voices from the piece and i had a hard time hearing the actual prerecorded music, so its a bit out of synch.

Anyways, enjoy. More information and details can be found at http://www.easternvoltageresearch.com."