Relentless Machine

flickr by Masonic Boom

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So I decided to illustrate the video that Michel made for Sandy P's Relentless Machine Dream*. I wanted her to look equal parts Wonder Woman, Maria from Metropolis and a heavy dash of H.R. Giger. (Also slightly inspired by the cover of the Tonto's Expanding Head Band album that's propped up on top of my CD case.)

It's funny, that is actually what my fingers do on the rare occasion that I remember to do a reality check in order to try and provoke lucid dreaming.


*If you don't know what I'm talking about, never mind, they are characters from a story. Hey, leave me alone I've been listening to Aphex Twin's Drukqs for about 48 hours straight at this point and my head has gone really funny and I'm having erotic daydreams about synthesisers. I mean, as you do..."

MInd diffuser

flickr by Jahaho Oby Juan visuals

Roland AX-Synth

More JP-8 art. :)

flickr by TheSynthFreq
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Ableton Sausage Art

via Create Digital Music

I decided to pass on a Synth Sausage label.

Morgan Page on the Moog Voyager

YouTube via FutureMusicMagazine — May 24, 2010 — "Morgan Page takes you through why he loves the Moog Voyager"
Tip at 2:22: if you touch the metal "part" of the Voyager while using the touch pad, it will intensify the effect. Anyone verify this?

Acid Jam - Jomox XBase09 + x0xb0x

YouTube via e7ektro — May 24, 2010 — Quick demo of the XBase09 syncing the x0xb0x via Midi.

pro one fun

YouTube via Hobbs360 — May 23, 2010 — pro one fun

ENSONIQ FIZMO P13

YouTube via betteroffted23 — May 23, 2010 — "Custom patch for Ensoniq Fizmo. 3 Sounds, 5 Oscillators"

Joy of MIDI Sync III

YouTube via onephatcat — May 23, 2010 — "Electronic music performed live from the point of view of the performer. This episode of "The Joy of Midi Sync" features the MAM Map1 arpeggiator as one of the dominant musical elements, and is annotated with subtitles explaining more of what is going on. Synths abused in this video: Kawai K5000s, Casio CZ-1, Waldorf Rack Attack, Waldorf MicroQ, Korg EA-1."

Squid Shifter + Loopback

YouTube via grandtippler — May 23, 2010 — "Using the squid shifter with loop back.
This method gives some interesting results but I'm still leaning what control will do what. The range of sounds are amazing I just can't always produce them.
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