Instrument-a-day 6: Buddha Bonk

"Buddha Box, wire, brass, and conductive foam.

The Buddha Box is a little electronic gadget that plays any of 12 chants over and over again. I wired it up with a brass tablet and drumstick so I can play it like a drum-- each hit switches to a new chant. (A little bit of conductive foam on the end of the drumstick muffles the tapping sound.)

It sounds like this."
via moonmilk

San Fransisco Tape Music Festival Review by CatSynth

See the full review of the event on CatSynth.

"The idea of going to concert hall and listening to a recording may seem odd, but like any other performance, it is about matching the content and presentation. There are really good tape-music performances, and really bad ones, and I have been to both. The Saturday performance at the festival was definitely a good one. It included classics of electronic music, such as John R Pierce’s Stochatta, one of early experiments in computer music at Bell Laboratories; and Lubiano Berio’s Thema (Ommagio a Joyce). Both pieces were premiered over 50 years ago."

Korg ds-10 song 8 clarity

YouTube via beddi2

Groaning Seq DotCom

YouTube via davidryle
"The Synthesizers.com (Arrick) modular on a drunken bent. Slew limiting and a Lexicon delay with a Small Stone phase shifter makes fun, fun, fun!"

SciFi Seq DotCom

"Hypertensive DotCom (Arrick) modular through a delay."

Roland SH-101 NovaMod synced to Electribes

YouTube via rudeog

"Borrowed my friend's SH-101 with NovaMod. According to my friend, "the NovaMod Rev.2 is by Phillip Pilgrim. I don't know if he is still in business after moving from Nova Scotia to Ireland."
Here I've incorporated the Electribes ER-1 and EA-1 and a Behringer delay pedal for some added excitement. The ER-1 provides a beat, and the EA-1 provides a pulse to the SH-101 to sync it so that the recorded sequence on the 101 can play (somewhat) in time."

OSCAR SYNTH

via this auction

the 258v

clone of the Buchla 258 oscillator. More info on Buchla Tech.

brontologik4 for monome 256 (quick walkthrough)

brontologik4 for monome 256 (quick walkthrough) from pyrolator on Vimeo.
follow-up to this post
"brontologik4 for monome 256

a composing system

6 layer sending midi data (pitch, velocity and 2 controller)
1 layer starting clips in ableton live
8 variations each layer
8 modes (for each layer) to manipulate and arrange pitch, velocity, controller, scales, transpose, key, pattern length, randomness and probability of playing.
load and save single pattern or complete data

This is the first public-beta now.
This is Donationware and will be availible at:
brontologik.blogspot.com/"

analog dreams

flickr by Aaron Kraten

Molten MIDI and None More Black by Molten Voltage

YouTube via MoltenVoltage. via David via HC.
"Molten MIDI by Molten Voltage is the World's Smallest Professional MIDI Footswitch. It comes pre-programmed for use with the Digitech Whammy 4 (WH-4). Custom chips are available for any MIDI controlled device such as the Flextone III by Line 6. None More Black is the simplest MIDI controller in the world. It does one thing - that "one thing" is chosen by you. A battery-operated, custom programmed MIDI controller for a very low price. Visit http://www.MoltenVoltage.com for more information or to order."