MATRIXSYNTH

Pencil Synth

Pencil Synth from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"555timer, few components and a pencil for drawing the musical interface and pitch bending."

la belle indifference: "Best friends"

la belle indifference: "Best friends" from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"This is our new song we made while performing in China at the Notch09 festival

'you are my best friend - I am your best friend!'

great fun with the talk box"

DIY Synth Building Course at Harvestworks in NYC

via pixelform

"I'm teaching a 5-day long intensive course in synth building using CMOS chips. It's designed for entry level students with little or no electronics experience. It's hands-on and starts with a structured introduction to electronics theory, oscillators, and electronic sound, then moves quickly into a self-guided projects completed in class.

More in formation on the course can be found here:
http://shar.es/XPwN4

Sign up ends this Friday, Feb 4th! Class begins on Feb 7th. If you know someone in New York who would be interested in this class, please let them know about it.

The official short description:

This 5-day intensive course is designed to be friendly to those who are just getting started in electronics and have a curiosity in making their own electronic musical instruments. Students will review the basics of electricity, identify components, learn how to read and write schematics, design and build their own custom modular synthesizers from the 4000 series of CMOS logic integrated circuits.

A student of mine from the last class held in September of 2010 put together this really amazing video"

cigar synth & spring reverb from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"Thanks to Phil Stearns for intruducing me to the CMOS technology. Also thanks to the people at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center for their patience and support."

::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards

::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Volfram on solo

Corvax on bass

Sonora as rhythm machine

::vtol:: - buttonboard 1

Alex Pleninger - buttonboard 2

more info - vtol.tk"

Untitled

Untitled from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

iMKS-50

YouTube via iControlMIDI | January 31, 2011 |

"iControlMIDI.
Plug & Play iPad Editors for Vintage & Software synths.
iMKS-50 for Roland MKS-50 / Juno-1 / Juno-2.
Site: http://www.icontrolmididesign.com"

iPad prices on eBay

Note you can build your own with TouchOSC or S1MidiTrigger. See this post for an example.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV - Live

YouTube via Nimanty | February 01, 2011 |
ARP 2500
"Jean Michel Jarre at young age, performing his Oxygene IV in the Dutch television show 'TopPop'.
Notice his random play on the keyboards, an obvious playback performance, much more common back in 1978.
At the time, his performance with all the synthesizers alone gave the audience a huge enough impression. Many even wondered how he could perform the song all by himself.

Images enhanced in colour, sharpness and contrast and soundtrack remastered for better clearity and stereo imaging.

Enjoy! - Nimanty -"

Kinect Drawable Synthesizer

YouTube via roboczar | January 25, 2011 |

"You draw buttons, and they become key you can play. See the impromptu sound board video for a demonstration of drawing buttons."

Impromptu Sound Board

roboczar | January 23, 2011 |

"Using the Kinect, I can create buttons by just drawing enclosed shapes on a piece of paper! The kinect identifies those regions as buttons that can be activated when I press them with my finger. This program uses ROS, the openni kinect drivers, and software I wrote here at MIT. You can find the code in the mit-ros-pkg repository."

TH_PhaseShifter_01

flickr By fonitronik

"I finally finished the build of this module... it was hidden in the drawer for 2 years, since it did not work. but yesterday i traced all problems down and got it right..."