I love their design. Bright bold colors, sharp edges, and organic curves. Check out their site for more. This post really doesn't do it justice. Love it or hate it, it's about as bold and refreshing as it gets in our world. The gear is pretty cool too. :)
BTW, I met Dan Snazelle at Winter NAMM this year. He's a really cool guy.
"Wonderful synth, similar to the SFX-60 but with built in keyboard and multi-assignable (2 effects in each direction) joystick for live recording/performance. Check the Elektron website at http://www.elektron.se/products/monomachine for more information on the SFX-60, or http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/monomachine.php; the SFX-6 was a limited edition version and is no longer in production. Truly a unique instrument."
YouTube via sk8dork — June 12, 2010 — "watch me mess around with bleep!BOX on iPad for 4 minutes! every sound in bleep!BOX is completely synthesized, no samples. works pretty much the same on iphone (universal app) http://bleepboxapp.com"
bleep!BOX on iTunes:
bleep!BOX on iPad "trub"
"sk8dork — June 13, 2010 — started working on a new song today in bleep!BOX that i'm calling "trub". everything you hear is straight from bleep!BOX, synthesized live, no post processing. i love this app. it works similarly well on my iphone 3G. http://bleepboxapp.com"
YouTube via JCRUDESS — June 13, 2010 — "My friends at Omenie who are making Jordantron just released this GREAT app for Ipad. The real Mellotron library revealed! Sounds amazing!"
YouTube via arthurpainter — June 14, 2010 — "Named after a variety of rose I encountered at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens last weekend, this improv takes the subtle grace of that flower and shapes it into a noisy rhythmic stomp around the garden. The word "noisette" implies a brevity of scale/length that I was aiming for. My EML 200 is the only source of sound/modulation/effects."
Update:
Andy Wig - EML Noisette 55
"arthurpainter — June 14, 2010 —
This (wholly different) version adds a bit of Roland TR-55 to the mix, a rather simple, but useful vintage drum machine. My EML 200 fills in the rest by sputtering in and out of the sound-field."
"Good news for all Usine free Users: Get more than 200 Add-ons and ready-made patches for free. Just register on the forum (it's totally free). http://sensomusic.com/addons/" See this post for video.
"Becoming is an algorithmic composition program written in java, that builds upon some of John Cage’s frequently employed compositional processes. Cage often used the idea of a “gamut” in his compositions. A gamut could be a collection of musical fragments, or a collection of sounds, or a collection of instruments. Often, he would arrange the gamut visually on a graph, then use that graph to piece together the final output of a piece. Early in his career, he often used a set of rules or equations to determine how the output would relate to the graph. Around 1949, during the composition of the piano concerto, he began using chance to decide how music would be assembled from the graph and gamut.
In Becoming, I directly borrow Cage’s gamut and graph concepts; however, the software assembles music using concepts from the AI subfield of swarm intelligence. I place a number of agents on the graph and, rather than dictating their motions from a top-down rule-based approach, the music grows in a bottom-up fashion based on local decisions made by each agent. Each agent has preferences that determine their movement around the graph. These values dictate how likely the agent is to move toward food, how likely the agent is to move toward the swarm, and how likely the performer is to avoid the predator.
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