MATRIXSYNTH

Synthesizer Meeting Kufstein

Click here for some images of prior year's events sent my way via bluesynths. If you are in the area, do not miss this year's event and be sure to take lots of pics and vids. :)

Los Punkitos - Caca culo pedo pis

YouTube via stpeteryt. Making the keytar cool again. sent my way via synthwood.
"de la pelicula 'las aventuras de enrique y ana'"
For those curious, the translation is "Poop piss ass fart piss" Punk Rock.

The Cello-Keytar - Blues Scale

YouTube via Owam1986
"Me improvising with my homemade keytar, my first DIY project.
There are some mistakes... don't mind..."

Sound of Mellotron

YouTube via oywood74
"Mellotron 400 MS
Trombone / Violins / 8 Choir /"

zoom1201 feedback experiment

YouTube via jenamu6
"Sorry for the bad audio, but I just had to make a movie.

If you DON'T like NOISE........Get out.

Output of a zoom 1201 routed back into the mono input. Creates nice sounds......I didn't recorded them very well.

I might overdub a new sound soon..."

Performance with Cubie

Performance with Cubie from sadmb on Vimeo.

"This video is an instruction of performance by sadmb with his own software, Cubie.

Cubie is a musical software with puzzle game interactions.

For more information -
sadmb.com/

Anyone can play Cubie like sadmb do."

Korg 01/w Synth workstation Demostration by S4K ( Dream Theater Acos sounds )

YouTube via Space4Keys. Hmmm... I think I just got rick rolled at :25.
"Demostration
Keyboard: Korg 01/W synth workstation
Patches: Factory Presets
Performed by S4K
www.space4keys.com"

And a special treat that almost missed a post:

I didn't think I'd be able to post the following as there are not synths, but considering we were just Rick Rolled above, here you go... You can thank my good friend Laura for this one.

Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up

YouTube via thriftshopxl
"DJ Morgoth is an excellent mashup creator and DJ based in Germany. He runs an awesome night called Mashup Your Bootz.

He made this great mashup, so I made a video of it for him.

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

versus

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up"

Yamaha DX7 II-D (Solo mode, custom sound) and Roland JX-8P - sound test only

YouTube via SpacehotelMusic
"Just a sound test of the much maligned DX7 (II-D) in layered mode with a custom sound. FM can sound punchy and sometimes 'almost' analog in nature. Most people think of the DX as a preset machine (with the famous 80s sounds) but these days they are great machines for producing unique textures.

The JX-8P here is for contrast in the video. None of this is a musical statement (nor the music of Spacehotel), it's just a made up on the fly generic funk riff to show the sounds (with mistakes and stuff)... Hopefully will upload more in depth vids of all my synths in time, when I get chance.

Note: Sound quality is vastly compromised by the video compression, the artifacts on the low octaves of the DX7 sound are not present in real life - it also has more bass end. :)

The Top synth is a Roland JX-3P (1983)"

Spacehotel - Working on Album track with Roland JX-8P and Roland JX-3P

"Footage of me working on some ideas for a track on the upcoming SPACEHOTEL DEBUT ALBUM. Sounds quite basic here as it's obviously far from finished and is just in the 'writing' stages."

AANN - Overview by Phillip Stearns (Pixel Form) 2007

YouTube via pixelform
"http://www.art-rash.com/pixelform

This is a short documentation clip of AANN from the 2008 Juried Exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum (City of Torrance, LA, CA, USA).

Dimensions: 4x2x2 hanging installation
Medium: Electronics

AANN is an interactive, handmade electronic sculpture that responds to changes in ambient light and sound. The sculpture itself is 45 interconnected, electronic neurons that are actively responding to environmental stimuli in a display of light and sound. Constructing the sculpture in such a way that function and form are keenly interconnected, borrows from the sculptural, musical electronics works of Peter Vogel. Great care was taken in the design of the electronics to accurately mimic biological neural behavior. The resulting form of the piece was influenced in part by layering models used in neural computing, and by Fibonacci based branching found in natural systems. AANN explores the notion of interactivity with electronics by making physical the abstract processes being used by modern computer scientists to solve complex problems in pattern recognition.

The science of robotics seeks to study, mimic and recreate life through the creation of automatons which are ultimately are designed to complete tasks that serve our desires. Here with the creation of AANN, the desire is to explore the possibility of making a thinking thing, one that is allowed to have its own desires. However, in the end what AANN becomes is a sign of the industrial military complex, signifying not only the possibility of the pursuit of such idealistic techno-fetishistic dreams of machine intelligence, but also their very negation through the terminal exploitation of the very life which it seeks to replicate (and eventually replace).

Questions which arose during the course of researching and developing the work branched outwards from the decade old debate about machine intelligence and its potential impacts on society and environment. What is interactivity? What are the preconditions necessary for such interactivity? Does intelligence play a role or is interactivity a generic feature of reality. What is it to think? Is it possible for a machine to think as we do? If it is not yet possible to understand what it is to think and how we humans do it, what is it that drives us to make machines think? Are we too lazy to think for ourselves? How much does structure factor into the functioning of a network both biological and artificial? What are the implications of accepting a networked model of understanding? What is the total impact of technology on society and on the biosphere which supports it? Is it possible for a technological work to affect enough positive change to offset the potential social and environmental damage wrought in its history of development and application? Can technology exist without economies of scale, and if not, can those economies of scale be maintained in an ecologically sustainable manner?"