Roland TB-303 Green T-Shirt by The Dole Shirt

A few shots of a green Roland TB-303 T-Shirt sent my way via The Dole Shirt. You might remember Dole from this TR-808 T. Be sure to check out their site for more. The quality of these Ts are top notch. I like the Dole T-Shirt badge on back. Apologies for the quality of these pics. I need to get better lighting. They don't really do justice to the T.

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Dane Lovett - Synth Art & More

This one in via JL

"There's a painter named Dane Lovett. Don't know much about him, but he does still life paintings of stuff like VCR tapes and CD covers and the usual flowers, but he has a nice portrait of a 303 and and 808."

Check out the following for more:
http://danelovett.com/works/

Moog Prodigy 336A

via this auction

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Solina String Synthesizers

via Woody

"Just saw 3 x Solina String Synthesizer on the dutch market page http://www.marktplaats.nl/ search for Solina String."

Only two of the listings had a pic. The following is one of the descriptions in Googlish: "The Solina String Synthesizer. One of the rarest synthesizers ever.
Built in 1975 in Bodegraven our own Eminent. On board were a complete Solina String Ensemble and the famous super awesome chorus, nice and thick ... and Arp Explorer 1, a monophonic synth.

This is because
- The String Ensemble separately to use ...
- And monophonic synth too (which has a VCO, LFO, ADSR filter, nice glide, four waveforms (sine, square, sawtooth and random) noise, and four pitch registers you separately, but together can make it sound (" bass / tenor / alto / soprano ")...
- And you can string ensemble and synth combine (if you accept an unpacked your highest note both the synth strings note as well) ...
- But the best thing is that the string ensemble through the filters of the synth can draw! So that you basically a very unique and expressive synth have full scale, because you can basically show all of DFE strings while playing!"

Making of Gary Numan DieHard commercial

YouTube via makemagazine | August 09, 2010

"Syyn Labs, the folks who created the Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video, recently did a commercial for DieHard featuring Gary Numan performing his classic song "Cars" on actual cars (their tuned horns), playing them like a piano, all powered by a single DieHard battery. We were intrigued and asked them to tell us how they did it. They sent us this behind the scenes video. The commercial is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YsMV... [previously posted] You can read an article about the making of the commercial and the tech they used here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010..."

DSI Tetra + Moog RingMod + EHX MicroSynth

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan | August 09, 2010

"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie. To be fair, this is hardly a demo. I am just trying some possible sounds made by a Dave Smith Instruments Tetra passing through a Moog Ring Modulator and an Electro-Harmonix Microsynth. The DSI Tetra is playing always the same simple monophonic sound. As it is my very first attempt to do so, the results are certainly not to be taken too seriously. Enjoy !
http://www.myspace.com/fredericgercha..."

Quik-E 004 - Let's Make a Tempo Sync'd Pad in Massive!"

YouTube via thepluginguru | August 09, 2010

"Rate !! Comment !! Subscribe !! Please !! :D
Follow along on a fun adventure with Skippy to make a Complex Tempo Sync'd Motion Synth Pad in Native Instruments MASSIVE !! This patch will be included in the update to the Massive Power Pack coming out at the end of August, 2010 to bring the Power Pack up to 100 kick-butt patches. Sorry YouTubers but the 10 min. video limit really cuts this short - so go to www.PlugInGuru.com, find the "Quick-E" Video link and watch the full 30 min. video. You can also download it if you want to! Thanks as always for your support by purchasing my Power Packs."

circuit bent LIGHT MILES

YouTube via noystoise | August 09, 2010

"short demo of the functionality and few different sounds this keyboard is capable of producing."

TRIADEX MUSE Analog Sequencer 1972

via this auction

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1965 R.A. Moog Co. Electronic Music Workshop

via the Bob Moog Foundation:

"Today, August 9th, 2010 marks the 45th Anniversary of an interesting event in Moog history: On August 9, 1965, a small summer conference was held to teach electronic music and expose the new Moog synthesizer to the world of composers. We thought it would be ideal to use the Bob Moog Foundation Archive to shed some light on this relatively unknown event, and to bring a little clearer understanding of the way things were in these very early days of the Moog synthesizer. Using documents, photos and tapes from the Archive – plus a few recollections from a few who were there – we present a look at the “Electronic Music Workshop” of August 1965…" Click here for the full article. Don't miss this fascinating bit of history.

"July 28, 1965 Letter to Workshop Participants (BMF Archives)"

"Herb Deutsch lectures at R.A. Moog Co. Factory - August 1965 (Seated from Left: David Schroer, Kathryn Perry, Franklin Morris, Al Tepper, Reynold Weidenaar) (BMF Archives)"