MATRIXSYNTH

QuadBass++ drum trigger experiment

YouTube via bchris1776 — June 12, 2010 — "Proof of concept test #1...
Found this "Leapfrog Alphabet Drum" at a garage sale for $2...thought I might use it as a drum trigger for my Thomas Henry "Quad Bass++". This is the first experiment...
Wired a jack straight to the Piezo element under the drum head. Added a switch to mute the internal audio from the toy drum.
It powers down after not being used for about 30 seconds...does not affect the drum trigger I'm using, merely shuts off the internals (LED's and audio) which is a good thing. Might have to condition the triggering a little - as it is pretty sensitive to other vibrations.
Otherwise - It looks like it'll work."

playing with my clock

YouTube via cray56 — June 12, 2010 — New Project 2

Donald has a daytime job - Buchla 200e

YouTube via schokokontrol — June 12, 2010 — "Let it shhhwing: a 200e and a Monomachine played live. Percussion from the Monomachine."

Thai Circuit Bent Modular Synths

สลาวลี : Raw And Loud Circuit Bent Modular Synth Experiment

YouTube via slavleeexperiment — June 12, 2010 —

"experiment on my built from scratch and circuit bent stuff
SEQ -cv} VCO -mod} VCO {cv- SEQ -cv} VCO
three voltage controlled oscillators
(vintage buddha machine, drum toy and a 555 oscillator),
two 8 step analog sequencers
(synced to the same clock)
and a mini 3 input mono mixer

*step 7 LED is dead :'(

sorry for a bit delay and feedback
please leave a comment, i'd be very grateful

bent and made in thailand by hands
thanks for watching :) ขอบคุณครับ"

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Radias 2

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Harald Bode Exhibit - Brattleboro Vermont

Full details at the Brattleboro Reformer here

Some excerpts for the archive:
"St., presents a new exhibit, "Harald Bode, A Lifetime for Sound," which opens to the public on Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., and runs through summer.

"A Lifetime for Sound" is a retrospective of physicist Harald Bode and his contributions to electronic music. This is a 50-year survey in image and sound recordings, documenting the contributions of Bode, one of the great pioneers of electronic sound.

Harald Bode (1909-1987) was an electronic musical instrument design pioneer. His career spanned 50 years of innovation. In 1937, he built his Warbo Formant electronic organ which had capabilities similar to those found in modern synthesizers....

In 1960, Bode presented his Modular Synthesizer and Sound Processor at the Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. With this landmark presentation, he ushered in the era of the analog modular synthesizer. Bob Moog was in attendance and inspired by Bode’s concept of the modular sound studio. This led to the development of the Moog Synthesizer...

The Bode (Moog) Vocoder (1977) was a particular success and is noted for its unique sound. It can be found on hit records of the era including the 1979 Lipps Inc., megahit, "Funkytown." Among the many artists who purchased the instrument were musician Michael Boddicker, who used it on Michael Jackson’s 1982 record-breaking album, 'Thriller.'"

If anyone out there goes to this, send in some pics!

via Brian Kehew

Update: two links to pics and articles via haraldbodenews in the comments:

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Pictured: "Rebekkah Palov, Exhibition Designer, walking through the exhibition with Caspar Abocab via Skype."

Bass Seq 1 .mp4

video upload by TheAdambee7 — June 02, 2010 —

"A Triangle VCO in progress. I wanted a really dirty Triangle osc that would distort without much effort. Its going through an Attack Release generator come VCA for gating effects. Its recorded dry without effects i.e. no reverb and delay. I'll post more as this takes shape. Cheers." Bass Seq 2 Dub Step Bass.mp4

"Put it through an EQ this time to bring out more bass end. Good Dub Step, Drum'n'Bass sound. Again using the AR envelope to create gating effects. No reverb or delay used." Bass Seq 3 Dub Step Bass.mp4

"Using a cmos 4089 frequency multiplier here which is connected to the sequencers external clock input. I wired its input straight from the sequencers clock. Even though it multiplies its actually dividing the clock pulses which create cyclical musical phrases. This is done by using 4 cmos 40106 osc to turn the 4089 4 data inputs on or off. Adjust the rate of the osc and you get different phrases from the 16 variations of on and off.. Cool yeah."

Boresite

YouTube via ittaital — June 12, 2010 — "First track out of the "Opticks" series...

All synthesis work done on a "Waldorf Blofeld".
Drums, percussions and metronomic parts, done with "NI Maschine".
Sound and production on Cubase DAW.

If you like, please visit my www.soundcloud.com/ittai-barkai web site, for more..."