Mechanical piano pieces on TENORI-ON(s) [Rehearsals] by Smith

YouTube via znshn. be sure to see these prior posts (scroll).
"Digital adaptation of the "mechanical piano" (also known as "pianola" and "player piano") ways of playing as imagined by Colon Nancarrow in his "Studies for player piano" (and George Antheil in "Le ballet mécanique") using two TENORI-ON(s) and various filters.

N.B.- These rehearsals are part of a series of solo pieces inspired by Nancarrow's works and John Cage's experiments for prepared piano.

See also previous video "Studies for two TENORI-ON(s)" on Create Digital Music: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/02...
IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- 2 TENORI-ON(s)
- MI Audio Pollyanna Octave Synth
- Moog Low Pass Filter (MF-101)
- Moog Ring Modulator (MF-102)
- Jomox M-Resonator
- POG Polyphonic Octave Generator (Electro Harmonix)
- Space Echo (Boss RE-20) *only reverb used here
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for LPF Resonance)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for RM Frequency)
- Boss EV-5 for Space Echo volume *not used here

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmither...
http://www.myspace.com/znshn

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette"

I love my Monome!

YouTube via StarfireMX
"This is by far one of the most interesting musical device I've ever came across, to find out more go to monome.org.

This was made with Ableton Live and a Monome 64, using impulse in ableton for drums, and both the lower 'bass' line and the main melody were made using the FAW Circle VST.

The Monome was controlling the main melody using Polygomé written by Stretta (stretta.com) and using the tilt feature of the Monome to control Circle live for some added variance.

I know it got a little long but I was having fun with the Monome and got carried away, beside isn't that what music is about sometimes!

Thanks for watching, please comment!!"

RA: Machine Love: John Tejada Interview

You can find the full interview sent my way via Mark on Resident Advisor.
snip: "If you had to prioritize and sell everything except for five items (not including monitors / mixer), what would they be?

I would need my modular, my Cwejman S1, my Doepfer Maq 16/3, my Moog Voyager and my Eventide Eclipse. If compressors counted as well, I may have to keep my bus compressor over the Eventide. Or wait, the Moog, or uhm.... now I'll probably have a stress nightmare.

How often do you use hardware sequencers like the Doepfer MAQ box?
I use them probably in nearly everything I do. A big reason for this is they send CV/Gate out to my analog stuff which gives me much more creative control over midi. I can send channel 3 of the sequencer to the filter in or anything that has CV in and sequence the parameters. It just sounds great. Also drum-wise, I enjoy using one of the drum boxes to sequence with. But since I do come from a piano background, I also many times just enjoy hammering it all out on the keyboard."

Yamaha QS300 + QY70 Synthesizers - Rendez Vous 2

YouTube via hilltree

"Only both yamaha synths are used . This is a track from jean michel jarre.
More at www.groenewoudnet.nl"

GiGi D'Agostino on QY70 little cover

YouTube via LxAxRxS. "please watch full length :)"

The Leper - live prog keyboard million-note performance

YouTube via hamsterdunce

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Here's another version of my original song "The Leper" from my album "umop apisdn." Performed live at the Downtown Cafe in quasi-beautiful Bristol, CT."

The white Roland JD-800 on the lose. Note hamsterdunce is David C. Lovelace of http://umop.com/. He is the man behind The Packrat (scroll and click on the images when you get there), and he does the artwork for Metasonix. He also did the Matrix Packrate drawing for me on the right of this site. :) Dave rocks. You can find more info on his music projects including videos here, man of which have been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

arp 2600

YouTube via angelometz. "fixing the arp"

Buchla 200e and genoQs Octopus

flickr by xartdigital

full size

A Concert of Music and Psychogeography

flickr by JC_Phosphene
(click for more)

full size

"Glasgow University, 28th January 2009. A series of works by composer in residence Drew Mulholland."

Frostwave Funk-a-Duck Envelope Filter

via the forum where this is listed for sale. "Out of production and very rare-ified... Maker Paul Perry is on an indefinite hiatus at the moment and this pedal is out of production. This is a Mutron III on steroids type envelop filter with High and Low switchable Filters, an up and down knob to dial in the envelop, an over the top resonance knob control that can self oscillate and get very twitchy... This Funk-a-duck is designed for extreme filtering capabilities so you have the standard Mutron or Discumbobulator settings as a starting point. The envelop is chewy and sweeps with a pot from early to late trigger and open. This pedal plays well with others...be it Electric Guitar, Bass, processing drum machines, analogue synths, and anything else that you want to throw at it. This is a deep box, built like a brick in its duck yellow 16 guage steel enclosure and is in excellent condition. Comes with original 14 Volt AC wallwart." Some more details on the forum. Also listed on Ebay here.