ALEXANDER NEVSKY / PROKOFIEV / THEREMIN

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"Alexander Nevsky is one of the great heros of Russian history. He is reputed ...
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Alexander Nevsky is one of the great heros of Russian history. He is reputed to have driven an army of Livonian Knights (German "warrior monks") from Russia in the year 1241. The decisive battle was on the ice of the frozen lake Peipus (in Russian "Chudsko-Pskovskoe ozero") in the spring of 1242.

The Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein, made a movie of this epic battle in 1938 and hired composer Sergei Prokofiev to write the music for it. ALEXANDER NEVSKY is considered by many experts to be one of the great movies of all time, and the piece of music in this video (transcribed for theremin) is from that film.

Following the Battle On The Ice, there are hundreds of dead soldiers lying in the snow and a young maiden walks out onto the frozen lake looking for her lover, and sings, "I shall go across the snow-clad field, I shall fly above the field of death, I shall search for valiant warriors there....."

The composer Prokofiev had spent some time in Hollywood in the 1930's, and had made a study of the new science of soundtracking for film. Director Eisenstein said of Prokofiev, "He is a man of our time and a man of the screen. He understands how the screen can reveal not only the outer appearance of things but their inner nature as well. He is able to dress objects in sound and instrumentation, bringing them to life with shifts in tone and timbre, adding an emotional dimension to images through his orchestration".

Prokofiev later took his score for ALEXANDER NEVSKY and made a cantata out of it for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra. The interesting thing about the composition is that the music, as powerful as it is, does not overshadow the film. It complements it perfectly while remaining one of the composer's most enduring works.

The theremin in this video is the 1929 RCA that was once the property of the late Hollywood thereminist, Dr. Samuel Hoffman."

analog synth lo pass filter+lfo with noisemaker

YouTube via panote09 | February 04, 2011
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YouTube via cray56 | February 04, 2011 |

"Buchla 200e"

MARK JENKINS "Berlin" Unicorn Studio, London 1993

YouTube via MarkJenkinsMusic | February 04, 2011

In the studio; MOOG Polymoog & MiniMoog, KORG DSS1, EX800 & VC10 Vocoder, ROLAND SH101, TB303, MSQ700, Sequencer & VP330, AKAI S950, GREENGATE DS3, EMS Synthi HiFli, OBERHEIM SEM & Sequencer, SEQUENTIAL Drumtrax, YAMAHA CS80 & KX5, electric guitar
Also Recorded; SEQUENTIAL Prophet T8, EMS Synthi Aks, E-MU Emulator
Track available on the CD "Thunder At Midnight" worldwide through www.groove.nl
www.markjenkins.co"

Akai APC 80 Do-It-Yourself DIY: How to build the APC 80 from Akai APC 40 & APC 20

YouTubevia delamartv | January 31, 2011 |

"http://www.delamar.de/akai-apc80/

The ultimative Controller for Ableton Live - the APC 80 built of Akai APC 20 and Akai APC 40 by delamar the german online magazine.

Check it out - the Akai APC 80!"

edison - artemis vs. the city (geek view)

edison - artemis vs. the city (geek view) from edison on Vimeo.

"the latest....
from my new album!!
all one shot sounds...
no loops running...
one take live to camera...
top view!

buy the album!
kidwithoutradio.com

this was overhead camera...
shot in 1080dpi

magic bullet mojo for color...
directed by mike landry and adam patch
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adampatch.com

produced by tim pries
edited by mike landry

big ups to brandon loper and eric herron for shooting and lighting and everything....
big ups to munish and david and chase for keeping shit awesome....
big ups to tim for buying us pizza....
support DIY folks!... "

Just Read The Instructions

Just Read The Instructions from Lyonel on Vimeo.

"Buchla 200e, One Stereo Pass.
Percs, Strings and French Horn Overdub."

Free TouchOSC DX7 Editor for The Missing Link

via wifimidi.com, the official Missing Link forum.

"This will program the notoriously difficult Yamaha DX7, TX7, and TX816 FM synths via MIDI SYSEX."

I briefly tested it with the Yamaha DX-200 groove box and it appears to work.

DX200 iPad editor

iPads on eBay

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Frame Dragging Vortex - Featuring Novachord Sample Set

"This is a piece titled "Frame Dragging Vortex", from the new Atomic Shadow project called "Creatures From Beyond". It was made with Hollow Sun's terrific Hammond Novachord instrument, Roland Gaia and Strymon's wonderful El Capistan tape echo. The arppegiated pattern is the Gaia run through the El Capistan tape echo pedal. Everything else is Novachord"
Update: Download link: http://atomicshadow.bandcamp.com/album/creatures-from-beyond

APC

YouTube via Quadraphonicsoul | February 04, 2011 |

"Just playing with Logic for the audio and Final Cut for the video editing then back to iMovie to share to Youtube"