A100 Analog Modular System featuring A196 PLL

YouTube via beckhusen
"Soundvariation of my last uploaded clips. This time i've included the A196 PLL (phase locked loop) in my system. Don't break your mind about how to create such sounds, it's allways the best to try and listen what happens. The results won't be poor."

Hilltree - Neon lights and plasma disk diy test

YouTube via hilltree. You might remember this one from this post.
"Short test and demonstration of my next neon oscillator diy project. Notice the neon bulb lights... no wires !!! :)"

Tangible Groove Pad (TGP)

YouTube via Wancoco
"Yudo Music Toys - Tangible Groove Pad (TGP) DEMO"
Yudo Inc. on iTunes:

Modular Tiptop Moog

YouTube via belempa1
"The demo ' of this patch, is to emphasize Low pass filter of Analogue Systems.
With a very typified sound Moog, this filter is a small marvel.
This faith this ( at last ) :-) , I use the sequencer A-155 + A-154 and extraordinary Cwejman D-LFO, no keyboard it turns(shoots) in buckle.

La démo' de ce patch , est pour mettre en valeur le Low pass filter d'Analogue Systems .
Avec un son très typé Moog , ce filtre est une petite merveille.
Cette foi ci (enfin) :-) , j'utilise le séquenceur A-155 + A-154 et l'extraordinaire Cwejman D-LFO , pas de clavier il tourne en boucle ."

Novation Launchpad Bounce

YouTube via larsby
"Novation Launchpad with a little application I wrote to test my WIP launchpad-application-framewor k

more informaton over at http://www.larsby.com/johan..."

Knobs

flickr by Stefano Tealdi

Roland V-Synth

Battery Powered TR-707 With Interchangeable TR-808 and TR-909 EPROMs

TR-707 Battery-powered with quick-swappable EPROM sounds

YouTube via rolandsh1000

"I think the 707 has some definite things going for it: great interface, lightweight, individual outs, onboard sound mixer pots, solid trigger outs. However, the things I always thought were odd were that it wasn't battery powered (such a lightweight chassis...why not?), and the sounds were good but not great (probably better than the 505 and 626, but the stepsister to the 808, 909, and possibly 606).

So this mod tries to fix both of those:

The first part is battery-power. I have an internal array of 10 AA cells that can be switched in and they'll power the unit for at least 10 hours. I use rechargeable NiMH cells for environmental friendliness. This enables sitting on the couch jamming with headphones and no wall wart leash!

The second part is a ZIF eprom socket mounted on the front panel where the M64-C memory cartridge used to go (something I know that I would never ever have used). This is wired into IC34 and IC35 on the voice board, which provide the ROM samples for all the drums except the crash and ride. Since IC34 and IC35 were 27c256 sized ROMs in parallel, they can be replaced with a single 27c512 64k ROM, which I've done here. No credit to me: Thierry on the Yahoo TR-707 group figured this out and posted his methods there for adding new sounds. To burn my own sounds, I got the WAVs from Hyperreal for the 808 and 909, downsampled them to ~22kHz and 8-bit, converted them to binaries, then adapted Thierry's BASIC program that organizes all the sounds into on 64K file per their stock organization in the TR-707.

This video shows me running from battery power (the only thing I plug in is the amp). I run through the exact same patterns using sounds first from a 27c512 EPROM with the stock 707 binaries, then my converted 808 EPROM kit, then finally a 909 EPROM kit (I didn't like how that last one turned out...anybody know of better sources for 909 sounds?).

I suppose doing the crash and ride eproms are next!"

pierre schaeffer - "etude aux chemins de fer"

YouTube via apopcollapse.

Anyone confirm this was the first piece of musique concrete?
"The first piece of "musique concrete," composed by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 out of sounds produced by trains.

This is posted as a reference to a series of articles on the problems of composition posed by musique concrete. The article on Peirre Schaeffer can be found here:

http://againstthemodernworld.blogspot...

If you like this music, please purchase the album:

http://www.amazon.com/L-Oeuvre-Musica..." on Amazon

Update via Joe of Electronic Music Teacher:
"I just want to note that Etude aux Chemins de Fer may be the first piece of Musique Concrete, but it is not necessarily the first piece of "sound collage" tape music. Schaeffer coined the term Musique Concrete (also called "acousmatic music") to describe non-narrative music using "sounds" as the primary source material, divorcing the actual content of the sound from what it represents. (When listening to Etude aux Chemins de Fer we are not supposed to hear trains as trains, but simply as abstracted sounds - elements in the composition.)

The earliest piece of tape-style electronic music might be Walter Ruttman's "audio film" titled "Weekend", from 1930. According to The Transparent Tape Music Festival:

"Weekend is a pioneering work from the early days of radio, commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour. In a collage of words, music fragments and sounds, the film-maker and media artist Walter Ruttmann presented on 13 June 1930 a radically innovative radio piece: an acoustic picture of a Berlin weekend urban landscape.

Before making Weekend, Ruttmann had produced the experimental documentary Berlin-Symphony of a Great City (1927) as well as a number of short, experimental abstract animations. After his experience with his films, Ruttmann deliberately sought possibilities for producing an audio-film for radio. "Everything audible in the world becomes material," he wrote in a manifesto in 1929, prefiguring Schaeffer, Varese, Cage and the other giants of the musical avant-garde."

Source : http://www.sfsound.org/tape/ruttmann.html

You can hear "Weekend" at this link:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/weekend/"

Bob Moog honored at UNC Asheville

Update via Schwertwal in the comments, this occurred last Monday.

via the Citezen-Times.com:

"UNC Asheville dedicates its Bob Moog Electronic Music Studio on Monday.

The 10 a.m. event, in room 24 of UNCA’s Lipinsky Hall, will honor the legacy of the late Bob Moog, who taught at the university 1989-1993. The 30-minute program will include remarks by Chancellor Anne Ponder, music department chair Wayne Kirby, Moog Music product development specialist Steve Dunnington (UNCA '93), and Rosser Douglas, a UNCA music major.

A studio tour will follow, including live student performances and hands-on opportunities on the theremin and synthesizers.

The Bob Moog Electronic Music Studio houses a variety of classic analog synthesizers and processors, including a Voyager Mini Moog, Moog pedals and theremins. Next door is a recording studio with a high-end recording and mixing console, and an electronic keyboard lab, equipped with MIDI keyboards and Macintosh computers.

Concert Thursday night

At 8 p.m. Thursday, UNCA's Electronic Music Ensemble will perform original scores with Moog synthesizers, theremins and electronica at White Horse Black Mountain in Black Mountain.

Electronic music scores written by UNCA electronic music students will accompany excerpts from "Metropolis," Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary 1927 science-fiction film. Admission to the concert is $7, a portion of which will benefit UNCA’s music department."

PatternMusic Instrument Settings

YouTube via richardlawler
"PatternMusic Music Creation App for the iPhone. Tutorial on instrument settings including voice, note length and transpose."
Available on iTunes here: