"here is the finished module using a proto PCB. works quite fine! it basically is a 4017 based step sequencer providing CV out, Trigger out, and Gate out. the tricky part is the voltage control of the possible patterns: an incoming CV gets manually scaled to 0-5V (LEDs will help to do that), and then gets processed by a 8-bit ADC. the parallel out gets converted to grey code and switches the steps/stages of the sequencer on or off. they can be controlled manually too, by using the toggle switches that overwrite the ADC data... www.fonitronik.com"
via the BIG City Music blog, and mentioned in this previous post. Note the event will start with Amin Bhatia and documentary filmmaker Dianna Dilworth discussing the impact and evolution of vintage keybards. Michelle Moog-Kouss will join for a Q&A. You might remember the name Amin Bhatia from this previous post.
MELLODRAMA: Mellotron/Chamberlin Documentary Trailer
YouTube via MellotronMovie
"From a California garage to Royal Albert Hall, Mellodrama is a documentary film by Dianna Dilworth that explores how the haunting sound of an ingenious contraption called the Mellotron changed the production and texture of popular music, from the Beatles to Kanye West.
The film will be released on DVD at the end of 2009.
"Friends: on January 14, 2009, I'll be performing realtime electronic works for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, along with composer/performers Kyle Bobby Dunn, Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), Michael Waller, and Cammisa Forrest. For more information, directions, and tickets, go here.
This concert has been curated by Kyle Bobby Dunn.
And, for those who missed it, here's a downloadable 256kb MP3 of my complete hour-long realtime Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum performance from electro-music.com's New Year's Eve 2010 live 24-hour streaming concert event: Richard Lainhart Electro-Music NYE 2009 by rlainhart
via Link-O-Logic: "I sampled some Moog Voyager sounds and made a free Kontakt instrument. All samples are made with analog outboard gear like API A2D, 5500, 2500, SMC 2b or Hammer EQ. For now you can download the first two demo packs: "Big Boy" and "I saw U". More sound packs will come."
via Ernesto: "All synth sounds were made with the Voyager, and the voice glitching manually cut with an MPC1000; the track was sequenced in Ableton Live 6." "And here we have some 'making of...' pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapitals/sets/72157623020177725/"
Googlish video translation from Spanish: "Mister Clean - Huba & Silica feat. Angie Cruickshank jazzrobot.com
Special thanks to Daniela Vesco for letting us do the shoot in his studio Fish Tank, production would not have been possible without your help fishtankstudio.com/
MisterClean is produced by Huba & Silica, co-produced by Dynamostar, with the special participation of Angie Cruickshank (vocals) and DZ-J (MPC1000).
Mastered by Simon Davey @ The Exchange, UK. Distributed: Moonchild Records
"These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment." You can find the download and more details on Veqtor's Corner.