Wiard Malekko Pogs - Wooden Nickels

via navs.modular.lab where you'll find images and samples featuring Wiard, Makenoise, Plan B and more.

pogs, chips - for searching later...

thx goes to twitter.com/ThomasGHenry for answering my call on what these are called. I was drawing a blank and it was driving me nuts...

Update: according to those in the comments, these are wooden nickels, not pogs. I was thinking pogs when I saw them, but now we know.

Nortec visita el Don Loope Wine Club

YouTube via pepemogt. Some synth spotting.
"Una tarde en Don Loope Wine Club.
Degustacion de vinos franceses, charlas de música ochentera, sintetizadores y mås."
Googlish:
"One afternoon at Don Loop Wine Club.
French wine tasting, lectures ochentera music, synthesizers and more."

Arturia Turns 10

"This summer, Arturia is celebrating 10 years of innovation in instrument design. Frédéric Brun, President: "We started Arturia in the summer 1999 with a vision, the vision technology would dramatically change the way the world makes music. At our first trade show, Winter NAMM 2000, our stand held the arrogant tag "Time for a new paradigm". It was ambitious but not totally out of scope. Along with many other innovative companies, Arturia has been happy to take part in evolutions that allowed more and more people to produce their own music.
Today we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of our customers who made this possible by trusting Arturia along the way. For them we prepared a series of updates and other news to be announced all summer-long. Watch out for free upgrades, special promotions, events and more." via Sonic State

Moog - Voyager Touch Surface CV Control of two Moogerfoogers

YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Project) gives a quick demonstration of using the Voyager's Touch Surface CV outputs to simultaneously control two Moogerfoogers. He does this using the Touch Surface CV outputs on the VX-351 Output Expander. The X-axis CV is sent to a Mult, where it outputs two identical copies of the CV. One copy is sent through an inverting attenuator on a CP-251 Control Processor. Both CV are sent to the Mix inputs of the Moogerfoogers. Since one of the CV's is inverted, positive Touch Surface "X" values increase the mix of one. Negative "X" values increase the mix on the other."

4ms Pedals Event in LA

via LaVa where you will find additional info.

"Join the LAVA crew for an evening of software and hardware demos by Ralph Barton and Dann Green (4ms Pedals) Marc Mcall (xnth). Afterward, stick around til 5am for music and DJ sets by Shane Hazleton, Justin (MC This), Bubblegum Shitface vs MkUltra, and Dr. Fun.

Marc Mcall will be showing his Xnth Visual Synthesizer (http://xnth.net), a MIDI enabled video mixing software system . He has been the resident VJ at the Avalon Nightclub in Hollywood for the past two years.

the_crew49Ralph Barton and Green of 4ms Pedals will demonstrate the Bend Matrix, a fully MIDI controllable automated patch bay with step sequencer." via the Big City Music Blog.

You might remember the Bend Matrix from these previous posts including video (scroll when you get there).

junost 21 (the signal)

YouTube via noseeya

sequencing distortion

YouTube via thedeepelement
"Couldn't find a way to get sounds like this on my machinedrum internally. The 'kick' is a weird Cwejman waveform being processed by the even-more-brutal Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer, the snare is being twisted by The Harvestman Malgorithm and there are several other things going where the Tip Top Audio Z3000 are the sources."

1978 Advert - ARP AVATAR

via this auction

Note the seller has a ton more listed here.

"These are original magazine cuttings from a private collection, NOT copies/scans. Cuttings are posted in all board envelopes to avoid damage in the mail."

Soviet analogue synth synthesizer FAEMI-1M

via this auction

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Experimenting with Electronic Music, 1st ed.

"Published the very same year electro-industrial pioneers Kraftwerk released their breakthrough album "Autobahn," here's a wonderful, rare book covering virtually everything you ever wanted to know about music synthesis and reproduction. Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.

Contents include:
* Musical Electronics
History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer

* Sound and the Electronic Signal
Sound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave

* The Instruments
Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting

* Microphone and Pickup Applications
Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance

* Building a Small Electric Organ
Tone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages

* The Electronic Modifiers
Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit

* Electronic Tone Generators
Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ

* Odds and Ends
Two-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo

Hardcover, 180 pages. First edition, copyright 1974."

on Amazon

I added this to the Synth Books section as well.