YouTube via zoozmobile. ZOOZbeat on iTunes: Richard Devine ZOOZbeat sound set below. "Autonomous Robotic Marimba Playing 'Shimon' ZOOZin' It Up with Atlanta Hip-Hop Artist Street Lotto.
[ZOOZbeat Founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Gil Weinberg jammed live from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 emerging technologies conference in Yokohama, Japan December 16-19, 2009 with Shimon.
Dr. Weinberg developed 'Shimon' at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. (He is also the Founder and Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology).
More on the first Intercontinental musical jam session between humans in Japan and the Robot in the United States: http://www.zoozmobile.com/blog/?p=295
YouTube via pixelform. Not a synth, but some DIY correlations. "Suspended in a 4 story stairwell, a vine of incandescent bulbs pulses and ripples with light in response to changes in ambient sounds. Loud, low rumbling from the street traffic outside causes light to shoot up through the thick rope of lights, growing brighter as the rumbling grows louder. When all is silent, the vine is dark and cold, illuminating only briefly at short but noticeable sounds: a closing door, the settling of the building, a car horn. The activities of people using the stairwell cause the lights to come alive, inviting a vocal interaction and play.
16 incandescent lights were spaces at half a meter, their power chords braided and bound together to form a gradually tapering cord of wire and lights. The rope of lights was then suspended from the 4th floor down to the top of the 1st. At the top, a nest of cables, wires, and control boxes formed an electronic spinal chord. The brain of the electronics consisted of custom digital electronics made sound reactive by a tiny microphone. As sound triggered the electronics, the lamps were turned on and off in such a way as to create the illusion of light rapidly ascending the rope, creating a brilliant column of flowing and pulsing energy.
The circuit at the heart of the installation consists of an electret condenser microphone, amplifier, comparator, two dual 4-stage shift registers, and 16 solid-state relays. The electret condenser microphone picks up ambient sounds, which are amplified and passed on to the comparator. The comparator compares two voltage levels and outputs a positive or negative voltage depending on the relationship between the voltages at its inputs. A fixed reference voltage is applied to its negative input while the signal from the amplifier is applied to the positive pin. What follows it that for every time the sound level produces a voltage above the reference, the comparator outputs a positive signal. This positive signal is then passed to the CD4027 CMOS shift registers. Linked together, the shift registers provide 16 outputs along which a signal present at the input may be clocked through. The effect is the same as a ticker tape, except that you are viewing one row of lights instead of the usual 8-10 rows that are needed to reproduce text. The signals that are passed from output to output along the shift registers are used to turn on the lamps via solid-state relays."
YouTube via krankhaus. I missed this one. Gear comes in at 6:00. "Destroyx answers questions from members of Angelspit's Forum. Questions include: Where is the name "Angelspit" from?; Musical background?; What inspires you?; Do you enjoy your career?; What motivates you?; What is tour life like?; Gig experiences; Favourite Synth Gear? More BLIPVERTS from Angelspit: www.angelspit.net/blipvert"
"This is a great filter that responds nicely to control voltage and gate inputs because of the vactrols used in the design. Basically, the decay is nonlinear and more like what an acoustic instrument does than other filters that don't have vactrols. This allows for more "realistic" sounds such as classic Buchla-esque woody percussion sounds.
The sound is smooth, but can be overdriven and you can see on the input how I labelled '7' on it to tell me when the pot setting starts registering distortion. This is the first version of the Model 12, so I had to mod it and add a switch to get the "overdrive" function that later batches came with stock. The mod consisted of wiring a resistor across one of the vactrols (see photo of the interior) with a switch on the front panel."
Richard Devine ZOOZbeat sound set below.
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