YouTube via NativeInstruments — April 14, 2010 — "This video descripes the concept and creation process of "Paranormal Spectrums", the new Kore-powered instrument that specialises in dark and tension-filled soundscapes. Paranormal Spectrums is designed for the creation of horror-genre style atmospheres for movies and video games.
Berlin, April 15th, 2010 – Native Instruments today introduced PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS, a new KORE-powered instrument that creates mysterious and unsettling sonic atmospheres. For use with KORE 2 and the free KORE PLAYER, PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS is a powerful resource for suspenseful film and game scores in the horror, thriller and mystery domain, and is also suitable for dark electronic music styles.
Based on atmospheric field recordings, unusual sampled sounds and intricate synthesizer programming, PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS offers a wide assortment of evocative pads and sinister soundscapes, as well as intense mallets, flutes, bells and synth sounds that are both original and highly playable. It takes advantage of the integrated engines of KORE 2 and KORE PLAYER, combining the advanced sampling features of KONTAKT with the versatile synthesis functions of MASSIVE and ABSYNTH and the sound processing capabilities of GUITAR RIG to create deep, complex and charismatic sounds that can be efficiently modulated and brought to life.
PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS provides 100 KoreSounds with eight morphable Sound Variations each, resulting in 800 individual sounds. Concise parameter assignments allow for immediate, intuitive sound tweaking in KORE 2 and KORE PLAYER. Full musical metadata for all presets also makes PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS integrate seamlessly with any individual collection of KORE instruments.
PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS is available for download in the NI Online Shop for $79 / 69 EUR."
YouTube via drbleep — April 09, 2010 — "Bleep Labs introduces the Nebulophone, an Arduino based stylus synth with a light controlled analog low-pass filter. Get the the kit or completed synth at bleeplabs.com" Pre-Order Here
YouTube via rockowy — November 24, 2006 — "Great Minimoog solo played by Josef (Józef) Skrzek (SBB) on his solo gig in 2004. You can find whole concert on CD "Viator - Znak Pokoju" (Viator - Sign of Peace)." via felmoe
"I share with it a small portion of myself with each session. This one has been with me for a long time, and has been tickled into singing beautiful harmonies whilst balancing a cocktail glass. I pity the youth who, rather than express themselves, are content with "beatz". Not only do I pity them, but I find them disgraceful."
YouTube via 87bpm — April 14, 2010 — "Mitschnitt vom 24.03.2010, Club Tonstudio Stuttgart. Organic Electro Beats von Oli Rubow. Das ganze 20 minütige Solo, sowie die Performance mit der USt Band gibts unter www.uwe-schenk-trifft.de"
Oli Rubow is probably the most famous drummer in electronic music in Germany. In this YouTube video he presents his idea of an organic electronic live act, a combination of live drums and real time audio deconstruction with vocoder, delay, reverb shots & filter plus some acid from a tb-303 clone...
Used electronics: Snare drum is routed through a Line 6 DL-4 Delay + EHX Vocoder and a big reverb. A Roland kick trigger goes into a Jomox Mbase followed by a Boss Space Echo and the Oto Biscuit. A decent 16tel pulse comes from: Acidlab Bassline 2, Abelton Live controlled by a Launchpad.
"Don Slepian is an internationally known electronic musician, recording artist, and concert performer. Described by Rolling Stone magazine as "one of the genre's major talents", Slepian's live electronic concerts have been sponsored by radio stations, scientific groups, computer societies and universities, and his recordings broadcast on National Public Radio via the syndicated program "Music From The Hearts of Space". A consultant on computer music for Yamaha International, Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Bell Communications Research, Slepian's technical articles have been published by the National Radio Institute and industry bible/magazine Electronic Musician. Appearing to effortlessly merge synthesizer technology with elegant classical stylings now for nearly four decades, Slepian's body of work has been described by The Newark Star Ledger as "...a dazzling smorgasbord of computer sonorities, all of them fascinating, some of them achingly beautiful...undisputably a master of his medium."
"This is the Akai S1000KB synthesizer which was the industry standard in it's time. It has an 8MB card which increases the memory to 10MB. It is the keyboard version of the S1000 Genre and has an iconic place in music history."