MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, October 16, 2009

KORG WAVEDRUM （コルグウェーブドラム）

YouTube via jetdaisuke
"太鼓の初心者でも叩くだけでイイ音が簡単に楽しめる、パーカッションシンセサイザー「 KORG WAVEDRUM （コルグウェーブドラム）」を試してみました。これは楽しい。音楽を演奏するということすらどうでもいい、ひたすら楽しい。"

Googlish:
"Ii easily enjoy the sound of the drum at the touch even beginners, Pakasshonshinsesaiza "KORG WAVEDRUM (Uebudoramu Korg)" I tried. This is fun. But even that I dying to play music, enjoy doing."

One board analog synth

YouTube via denha. "test & tuning"

Admin: Search Anomolies

The search box on the top left header of the site seems to be hit and miss lately, especially searching on YouTube aliases. I seem to get more results using the Search box towards the bottom right of the site. Be sure to use both.

Homemade Synthesizers 1

YouTube via organfairy.

"This time I am doing something a little different from my usual course.
But don't worry: When this series of six videos are posted I will be back on my usual track :-)

In 1995 I made my first working synthesizer module. Over the next ten years I build a lot of other stuff that could make notes or noises and in 2005 I decided it was time to record something with it.
I have been telling a lot of people about my homemade instrument for some years now. But I thought it was about time to actually show the things I have done - put the videos were my mouth is so to speak..."

Homemade synthesizers 2

"The second video in my series of homemade synth show-offs. This time the main attraction is the analog sequencer that controls a voltage controlled synthesizer. And yes, the little 1½ octave keyboard is inspired by PAIA's Oz - but the internal design is completely different." [some Kraftwerk Autobahn sounds for you]

Update: Homemade Synthesizers 3

"The third episode of my little series of videos showing off my homemade synthesizers. This time the star of the show is a drum machine made out of two old Ericsson telephone switchboards."

Homemade Synthesizers 4

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Moog's Halloween Theremin Video Contest

"Get Your Freak on and Win Some Moog Gear: Enter the Moog Halloween Theremin Video Contest

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (October 14, 2009) – The call of the Theremin has been haunting the science fiction and horror movie genres for decades. It was there when aliens came to earth in The Day The Earth Stood Still and when monsters came to life in The Bride of Frankenstein.

Now it’s your turn. Moog Music is sponsoring a Halloween Theremin Video Contest. Prizes include an MF-104Z Analog Delay and a MF-102 Ring Modulator.

To participate, grab your video camera and put together your best Halloween-themed theremin video, but first go to www.moogmusic.com/theremin for a link to the complete contest information. Prizes will be awarded based on a poll of Moog Forum members and on the highest number of YouTube views.

Here’s your chance to keep us as Spellbound as Hitchcock did!

About Moog Music: Moog Music and its customers carry on the legacy of Bob Moog. Moog designs and manufactures electronic musical instruments, including Little Phatty® and Minimoog® Voyager® synthesizers, Moogerfooger® effects modules, Etherwave® theremins and The Moog Guitar. Founded by Bob Moog, Moog Music designs and manufactures its products in Asheville, N.C."

Harald Bode's 100th Birthday

via John Levin:
"October 19th will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harald Bode.

Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) is presenting a radio broadcast on Saturday the 17th at 11:00 am GMT/UTC (7:00 am EDT) about his life and work:

http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/radiofeature/harald-bode-melochord-musik-ID1255513211989.xml

Through a friend of a friend, I was sent an English translation about the broadcast:

'Ein Leben für den Klang - Der Erfinder Harald Bode und die Elektronische Musik" ("Living For Sound - The Inventor Harald Bode and the Evolution of Electronic Music") is a radio documentary by Caspar Abocab, which is based on an intense journey through the times and life of a man, who contributed musical devices to the world of electronic sound, as we know it today longer than hardly anybody else. A montage of passages from notebooks, letters, publications and European radio programs from the early fifties documents the struggles and debates about music through electronic means. Also documented are personal struggles including not wanting to be a starving martyr, who couldn´t support his family properly, which finally led to Harald Bode’s immigration to the United States. Besides daytime jobs as a developing engineer, which lead to the introduction of new technologies into electronic instruments, he found the time and energy to develop new instruments, as well as for his own compositions. Even as a retired engineer, he built instruments that were widely used. He was proud and happy to have become a well renowned player in this field again, happy to hear his instruments in popular tunes as well as in avant-garde music. He also continued with his own compositions and also with lectures on the history of electronic music.'

Looks like you can stream the show off Bavarian Radio's web site while it's broadcast. It's an early Saturday rise for those of us on the east coast :) but I think I'll get up to try to catch it.

Cheers, and happy Bode-day!
John"