The flying Moog Liberation;-) Synthjam

YouTube via Synthiefrau
"Hi lovely Synthfolk, I play the Moog Liberation, Synton Syrinx, Roland V-Synth Stringsound. The effects comes from the Doepfer Dark Energie and the Roland Juno 60.
I was stumble over the Cable from my Liberation. My Synth is okey, I am glad;-)"

PHILLIP WERREN - ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1968-71 (BUCHLA)

http://www.castexotic.com/werren.htm
"In 1971 Phillip Werren released a 4 Lp box through Simon Fraser University of his early Electronic Work which was recorded at S.F.U., McGill University & Radio Warzawa, Poland. Only 100 copies where ever made. A few years ago I discovered this record and was completly blown away. The Lp has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthisis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla 100 Series,the first of their modular synthesizers. I tracked down Phil in Toronto where's he's been living a number of years. Phil taught music composition and theory at York University in Toronto from 1977 to 1997,where he headed York's Electronic Music Studio.

The Album was created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. "1968 was a year of great upheaval: at SFU, Canada's Berkeley, 114 people were arrested for their part in the protest over the firing of the entire faculty of the Political Science and Anthropology department. Marcuse, Baba Ram Dass and others came to speak to us at peril to themselves; acid and mescaline abounded and apocalypse seemed to fairly shout out at us in the rarified atmosphere of Burnaby Mountain. The neo-fascist architecture of the university seemed to beg for anarchy and chaos and linear thought itself seemed doomed to extinction."
"The electronic music studio at SFU was at that time probably the most sophisticated studio in Canada. After working in studios at Columbia and Radio Warsaw, both of which were small and somewhat limiting, I found it impossible to continue composing with the Princetonian precision in which I had been schooled. The SFU studio contained the most recent synthesizer designed by Don Buchla. I only vaguely understood what ÒitÓ did and realized that I would have to put aside my rigid preconceptions of how one sound should follow another. The sequencer, a device which can generate a sequence of sound events in a more-or-less random pattern and at times seemed to have a life of its own, became for me a sort-of window through which I could see/hear a universe of sound I had never imagined possible. It was necessary for me to Òstep backÓ from these sequences of sound-events, to control them in some other way: through the mix of one sequence with another in time and space."

This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, and Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader, and Gordon Mumma.

Phil and his Engineer friend Tony Crea have transfered the original tapes to digital and cleaned it all up for this CD reissue. Original artwork on the cover was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter."

Bitnotic Chill

"Bitnotic chill 1.5 plays ambient music soundtracks. Each time a user presses Play or
Next, they hear a unique song, that no one has ever heard before. Using the Mood
and Mix controls, users can create their own style of music.

Users can save individual songs or whole albums to iTunes, AIFF, or MIDI files.
Saved music is royalty-free, so users can use it in their own works, including
presentations, videos, and games.

New features include:
• Drums & Percussion track
• Space setting to adjust balance between acoustic and synthetic instruments
• The Pulse control lets users set ranges of busy-ness
• Stations to listen to or to use as the basis of new genres of music
• Updated music algorithms, now with a much better sense of melody
• Much better handling of pentatonic and whole tone scales (using the Octavian music theory engine)
• German localization

It's a free upgrade from 1.0 and still only $19.95.

There's a screen shot and sample music at http://www.bitnotic.com/chill.html"

Note this is not an iphone app but you can also find bitnotic on iTunes:


"Album of Jingle Bells variations, as recorded by Bitnotic's chill / Concordia software for Mac."

korg ms20 parody video

YouTube via kimouts
"A short conversation parody i've made using only an old korg ms20 synth (offcourse with some reverb)"

The Polivoks

YouTube via kimouts
" fiddling with the polivox, sorry for bad quality fox, was recorded on a phone camera "

Yamaha CS10 analog monophonic synth

via this auction
BIN: $449

Yamaha Cs10 sound samples by abertronix

Mirror of the Creator

flickr by djthomaswhite
(click for more)

"Buchla Lopass Gate Clone Revision 2.0 has arrived for testing!!!"

Bottom: Copper Side

Sammich SID

flickr by djthomaswhite

Vesta Kaza DIG-420 Manual

You can find the manual here.

via floppyscratcher

[Retribution Body] Live Radio Performance

via Retribution Body

"I will be performing live on Rare Frequency this Thursday evening, December 17th. Boston-area folks can listen in on WZBC, 90.3 FM and everyone else is inviting to visit the webcast at http://www.wzbc.org/listen.html. My segment will be on around 8:00 PM EST. I also did an email interview for the show, it should be posted soon at the Rare Frequency site.

For those who are interested, there is a ton of media from the last show posted on the blog @ http://blog.retributionbody.com."
ARP 2600 and modular.