MATRIXSYNTH

Stockhausen: "Gesang der Junglinge"

YouTube via NewMusicXX | October 31, 2008

"Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Gesang der Junglinge" (Song of the Youths) (1955-56). A piece of electronic music utilizing both synthesized and vocal sounds. The vocal syllables are derived from the "Song of the Youths in the Fiery Furnace" from Daniel. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints of youtube videos, the last couple of minutes of this beautiful and historically important work of Stockhausen,were deleted from this recording."

You can find a great interview with Stockausen here, sent my way via Z of New Alliance East. Stockhausen was given some music by Aphex Twin, Plasticman, Scanner and Daniel Pemberton. You can find his critique in the interview.

As this site is primarily about the gear:

"Going back to Kreuzspiel - that was around the time you first started using
technology...

'Yes. 1952 I started working in the studio for musique concrete, of the French radio. Because I was very intrigued by the possibility to compose one's own sound. I was allowed to work in the studio of Pierre Scaeffer: I made artificial sounds, synthetic sounds, and I composed my first étude: Étude Concrète. At the same time, I was extremely curious, and went to the musée de L'homme in Paris with a tape recorder and microphones, and I recorded all the different instruments of the ethnological department: Indonesian instruments, Japanese instruments, Chinese instruments; less European instruments because I knew them better, but even piano sounds... Then I analysed these sounds one by one, and wrote down the frequencies which I found and the dynamic level of the partials of the spectra, in order to know what the sound is made of, what the sound is, as a matter of fact; what is the difference between a lithophone sound or, let's say, a Thai gong sound of a certain pitch. And very slowly I discovered the nature of sounds. The idea to analyse sounds gave me the idea synthesize sounds. so then I was looking for synthesizers or the first electronic generators, and I superimposed vibrations in order to compose spectra: timbres. I do this now, still, after 43 years.'"

Update:

Stockhausen on 'sounds', 1972

golfthewlis | August 06, 2007

"Excerpt from Karlheinz Stockausen's May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union on 'Four Criteria of Electronic Music'. It proved to be astonshingly priescent. If you like this, get the whole lecture from Stockhausen-Verlang.

http://www.stockhausen.org/video_kass..."

Moon Modular 511ac Quad Voltage Controlled Gate Delay

Lunar Experience

Pre-Orders Open:
NoiseBug Price : $287.50

Note Moon Modular is the Lunar Experience.

Roland TR-808 with Midibox sequencer and mods by Exfade

YouTube via wotatwaat | October 12, 2010

"So I had an 808 with a broken sequencer. Tried to fix it and no joy, seemed like the main (impossible to find!) chip was fried. So I built a Midibox sequencer into it, very much like the MB808 sequencer. I have to say a big thanks to the Midibox brains, as their sequencer is very cool!
The mods are the same as on the other 808 I modded, which is also up here"

AS3 Particle Node Sequencer

via Soulwire where you'll find the download.

"This sequencer is based around physical nodes, which connect to produce a variety of tones. There are two types of node, a neuron and a receptor, which are connected by synapses (apologies for the trite analogies). Neurons fire periodically, and if within a certain proximity of a receptor, this message is sent at a fixed speed along the bridging synapse. When the message arrives, the receptor is activated and responds by queuing it’s individual tone within the audio engine. Each receptor owns a randomly assigned note, and each neuron a randomly assigned octave; therefor a receptor will play it’s note in several different octaves depending on which neuron causes it to fire."

Roland CMU-800R

flickr By Chris Randall

"Got my CMU-800R, essentially new-in-box. Works like a charm, too."

Weather Report Medley Part 2

YouTube via digimaton | June 19, 2007

"Weather Report Live circa 1985, Domino Theory tour."
Some synth spotting with Joe Zaniwul.
He starts with the Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 and ARP Quadra. Rhodes Chroma comes in with the lead piano type sound at 2:18. You can see a Prophet-5 under the Quadra. Feel free to ID the rest.

via Chris Borman on the Rhodes Chroma list:

"The August 1984 issue of Down Beat described Zawinul's keyboard arsenal at the time of Domino Theory. Zawinul's stage setup included seven keyboards: an Oberheim 8 Voice, an ARP Quadra, an E-Mu Emulator, a Rhodes Chroma, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, a Korg Vocoder with auxiliary keyboard, and a Prophet T-8. The T-8 was Zawinul's newest instrument, an eight-voice synthesizer with a touch-sensitive keyboard. "I have as much control as you can have," Zawinul said of the T-8. "It's velocity- and touch-sensitive so when you touch down, you can get your own vibrato; you can preprogram your vibrato and speed." In addition, Zawinul used a Linn LM-1 drum machine, a Sequential Circuits Polysequencer, and various harmonizers and digital delay units. [DB84]"

You can find more vintage keyboard performances including Chick Corea on digimatron's YouTube channel.

Flower Electronics Jealous Heart Now Available

via Flower Electronics

"I am pleased to announce that the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart is now available for order. This new instrument is a fully modular battery powered synthesizer, hand-built using premium components to the same high quality standards as our Little Boy Blue synthesizer.

Jealous Heart features one low frequency oscillator (LFO), white and dark noise, a variable-gain preamp, and a multi-mode (LP/HP/BP) filter. The ± attenuators on the filter audio and control voltage (CV) inputs, combined with and the filter's asymmetrical response are the reasons why Jealous Heart excels when used feedback and chaotic patches.

Jealous Heart is shipping now for 497usd in North America, available at http://www.flowerelectronics.com"

Note: the following videos went up about an hour ago. I decided to consolidate posts into this new one.

Some simple sounds from the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart

YouTube via drwolfer | October 12, 2010

follow-up to this post
"Here are some sounds coming from Flower Electronics' new instrument, Jealous Heart. On sale now at http://www.flowerelectronics.com !

voltage controlled low frequency oscillator (LFO)
asymmetrical multimode filter (low pass/bandpass/high pass)
1/4" input with variable gain
white and dark noise
two audio inputs, one with -/+ attenuator
two filter cutoff voltage control inputs, one with -/+ attenuator
powder-coated aluminum case"

Some complex sounds from the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart

SunSyn Mark II

"News Details
SunSyn Mark II 12.10.2010 19:39
The sought-after SunSyn 2.0 will be manufactured in a small run again. We have given a face lifting to our 8-voice bolide and prepared the partly difficult getting of parts so far that a new production is possible. That implies of course that the new one will sound exactly the same as the old one!"