"We're having an electronic music festival and modular synthesizer symposium with The Harvestman, Flight of Harmony and Intellijel (hopefully showcasing some of the new modules that have been creating a buzz) as well as Buchla 200e, EMS Synthi, Synthesizer.Com, Serge, MacBeth and an electroacoustic drumkit. The Saturday night show will culminate with a modular soundscape with the symposium participants.
"Doepfer A155 sequencer modified to play forward-reverse-pendulum mode and Tim Stinchcombe's 16step outputs mod + the snake! realized with CMOS 4053 and 2070"
"Have you ever thought you could move an object with the power of your mind? Now you can, as you control the Jedi training remote with only your thoughts. Jedi Master Yoda guides you through 15 levels of Force training as you develop your powers of concentration. Perhaps you will discover that you have the skills to reach the highest rank of Jedi Master."
via Obscotch:
"Some new technology available to us Nerds in a cheap and easy to exploit format.
I can't be the first to have thought of it but I'm surely the last who could pull it off.
Can one of you expert circuit benders get on taking this thing apart and letting us use our brains to send MIDI?"
Update via craffel in the comments: "It's certainly doable and done, see eg here:"
Brain Computer Music Interface with Arduino - "Find the Tone" -Hello World Prototype
grassyhilltop | October 07, 2009
"Hacked EEG wireless headset produces a pure musical tone when a user concentrates. When not concentrating the user heres a combination of voices - one must find the right tone in their mind among chaos . Connected to Ardunio Nano, and running PD on a connected laptop to generate music. Toy parts for less than $150."
Update via theviirus in the comments: "This is Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric. And the bottom left photo is Aaron Zarzutski...in Hal McGee's apartment. All of these guys are amazing fellows."
"300 SERIES DUAL MULTIMODE VCF/VCA VACTROL BASED MODULE
The Borg uses a completly new filter design using “Vactrol”-based electronics. There are two seperate filters in this module -- each implemented as a 2-pole multi-mode. They can be linked as a 4-pole, or used as two independent filters. The Vactrol circuitry provides a certain amount of slew, giving the filter a very woody and warm tone.
The Borg also contains two LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators). Low frequency might be a misnomer, since the oscillators will track to a 15 Khz audio rate. These two oscillators can be used for filter modulation, or for clocking of a Sequantizer, vibrato on a Classic VCO and wave sequencing of a Waveform City.
via Andrew:
