Wednesday, February 11, 2009
relay organ
YouTube via ffoitl
"a musical instrument inspired by elisha gray's "musical telgraph" one of the first electric/electronic musical instruments ever.
it's basically a relay oscillator than be "tuned" to various frequencies via midi controlled capacitors.
in the video i use a tenori-on as a midi sequencer. the video of the tenori-on is not totally in sync with the rest of the video but you should get an idea.
the sound is recorded with a self-built piezo contact mic and a coil taken from a solenoid."
deadmau5 Touch Mix
My studio - 1981

The synths:
"The modular system on the right consists of three Roland 190 racks and two 191J racks containing: two 182 Step Sequencers, 121 Dual VCF, 130 Dual VCA, 112 Dual VCO, 150 Ring Mod/Noise/S&H/LFO, 110 VCO/VCF/VCA, 172 Audio Delay/Phaser/LFO/Gate Delay.
Also included in the Roland racks were a number of my own self-built modules, including a: Digisound Dual VCO, Digisound Dual VCF, Digisound Dual VCA, Digisound Dual ADSR, Digisound Dual RM, Blacet variable clock/divider, a Gristleizer module and (in the top rack) a flanger/delay and a dual phaser/flanger/delay.
Under the modular system is a Boss DR-55 Dr. Rhythm (sitting on top of) a Roland CSQ-600 Digital Sequencer, a Roland TR-808 (one of the first in the UK I might add), a Sinclair frequency meter (for tuning) and a Roland 181 Controller Keyboard."
sent my way via Benge. BTW, do check out this post on Benge's Twenty Systems as well. The CD is a tribute to synths and comes with a very nice CD book on the synth used for each track. The CD received praise from Brian Eno.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Hithouse - Jack To The Sound Of The Underground (1988)
YouTube via DeeJayPT. via fischek. Casio SK-1 featured in the video.
"Videoclip from a classic oldskool acid house track dated from 1988.
The producer of this song, Peter Slaghuis (that's why "hithouse"), was a very well-known DJ/producer in the era 1985-1991. In the early '90's he had his own record company "Hithouse Records" on which came out early Dutch hardcore releases. Himself was involved in such groups like "Holy Noise" and "Epilepsia". He worked together with persons like Paul Elstak and Rob Fabrie, who both became popular (happy) hardcore producers in the '90's. Sadly enough, Peter Slaghuis would have never seen their succes and the succes of the genre hardcore because he passed away in a car accident in sept. 1991, just before "his" genre became more & more popular ..."
Metasonix R-52 Multimode Filter Eurorack Module
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Ok nerds. Here's the ultra-dork demonstration of the new R-52 module from Metasonix. We start with a square wave oscillator, the Analogue Systems rs95. The R-52 sounds great. It's the same filter as the discontinued Metasonix TM-6.
You can see when the first cable gets plugged in. That's when we start modulating the "Sweep CV In" with the A.S. rs200 sequencer. The second cable is another channel of the sequencer modulating the "Resonance CV Input". Don't ask about dB response. Just bask in the crusty warmth that is the R-52.
Update: I just talked to Eric. This is the prototype of the R-52. The actual production models will be revised and will self-resonate. Cool."
X0XWASP Overdrive prototype ready
YouTube via BIM0X
"remove c38 and place the overdrive circuit inside. it is an " inside the x0x overdrive ", not an external pedal ! you can hear the distorsion in the headphone too ! made with opamp and LEDs the more it is aggressiv, the more it blinks ! play it very loud (webcam sound, sorry"
GrooveAxe Vid2
YouTube via grandtippler
"More info here: http://www.gadgetgangster.c..."
"The GrooveAxe is a simple to build project that uses a Picaxe [PICSynth] microcontroller to make looping drum patterns."
YES Madison Square Garden 1978

"Scan of an old negative; Yes in concert Madison Square Garden 1978."
full size
I see two Minimoogs and possibly an ARP Odyssey or Prophet-5? If anyone knows, feel free to comment.
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