"Building Castles out of Matchsticks is the occupation of a girl named Anne from Hamilton, ON. A small universe of photographs, music, video and written words presents itself to you in small glimpses, fleeting melodies, layered textures, and revealing concealment's. An ever-shifting series of port holes, through which we may glimpse something we recognize if we would but listen. A familiar form that is, at the same time, always moving... bcom'ing if you will."
"Here we have the king of FM synthesis and one of the "Holy Grails" of vintage synths (in my opinion). The Yamaha DX-1. Only around 140 of these were produced at an original cost of $13,900 in 1985. That is $26,500 in today's money! This is serial number 118. Yamaha hand selected the finest components available and hand assembled each synth. This is very apparent when you see, hear and play it. The keyboard action is luxurious. It is equipped with a professional wooden, weighted 73 note keyboard. The sound is stunning. I know everyone on ebay says their item is "amazing" but there is something special about the DX-1. I have A/B compared it with Yamaha's FM plug in board, two DX-7s linked together, and a DX-5 and there was no comparison. The DX-1 has a distinct superiority in sound every time, and it's not just a subtle difference either. There is a rawness to the sound of the DX-1 that is lacking in other FM synths. It feels alive, like an old modular synth's immediacy of sound and control. The only way to get the sound of a DX-1 is to own a DX-1 , no software emulation or other synthesizer compares in my opinion. (I have since sold the other Yamaha synths on ebay and received positive feedback for them all)" Sold For: US $5,595.00
"The Korg MonoPoly came out 1981 and was the last analogue monophonic synthesizer from Korg. Actually, the MonoPoly is a monophonic synth - but you can play it polyphonically, too - if necessary.
The Korg/Mono Poly is a very flexible synthesizer: It has 4 oscillators, oscillator sync, cross modulation, PWM, 24 dB Filter, 2 ADSR envelopes, 2 LFO's with many waveforms, ARPEGGIATOR, CHORD MEMORY and portamento.
It is built around SSM chips like the Korg Polysix. I think, with the MONOPOLY Korg wanted to produce a synth as an alternative to the Minimoog and Sequential Circuits Pro One.
The most characteristic thing on the MonoPoly is the arpeggiator, when it triggers the oscillators in poly-mode. Every step of the arpeggiator triggers a different oscillator - unique patterns can be produced.
The MonoPoly sounds great - it produces fat basses and leads - but also FX sounds, bells, like you can hear in the video.
I played the Korg MonoPoly sometimes with a Roland DEP-5 for delay effects and a Lexicon MPX-500 for reverbs."
YouTube via coloringpad. You might remember this one from this post. "Here is the first demo video of the hue008 spectral apc modulation unit... The HUE 008 consists of 2 APC's ((atari punk consoles. really four 555's)) built from scratch from the circuit board (set 1: yellow and green, set two: red and purple), with two knobs to cross modulate between them (orange and blue). Each APC is routed (respectively) left and right, for stereo goodness. In addition, the HUE 008 has a tint knob & switch (stereo ring modulator), a light knob and switch (one solo light sensor), a spectrum knob and switch (three light sensors housed inside the pulsing and spectrum cycling center light, which is operated by the lower center pushbutton), and a shadow knob and button (battery sag)... I attempted to design a super dynamic, fat APC, with the APC's being the signal for ring modulation, to boot. I hope somehow it makes somebody's top ten list of things that make ununderstandable noise somewhere. I'd be honored and flattered. Please rate and comment... www.coloringpad.blogspot.com"
Update (original post at 3:59 PM):
hue008 spectral apc modulation : the light (2)
hue008 spectral apc modulation : stereo ring mod (3)
Playing around with my brand new Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer. Just pulled it out of the box, it has an easy user interface (this clip was done with ~8 hrs "flight time"). All sounds here, are by the Blofeld synth besides the hi-hats and snares. A fun tool !
Video is a short excerpt from the magnificent movie by Godfrey Reggio - Koyaanisqatsi (Life without balance). The original films soundtrack, is by no other than Phillip Glass. 1982."
Waldorf Blofeld - space voyage
"Third short compilation on my Blofeld synth. Again all sounds are from the Blofeld synthesizer, besides hats and claps. Sequencer work is on Cubase...
This time the movie excerpt is from "2001 - a space odyssey" by S. Kubrik. (1968).
"Building Castles out of Matchsticks is the occupation of a girl named Anne from Hamilton, ON. A small universe of photographs, music, video and written words presents itself to you in small glimpses, fleeting melodies, layered textures, and revealing concealment's. An ever-shifting series of port holes, through which we may glimpse something we recognize if we would but listen. A familiar form that is, at the same time, always moving... bcom'ing if you will."
