Richard Lainhart - Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival Lecture & Performance

Slideshow of Richard Lainhart's lecture at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), Friday, May 6, 2:PM PST, 2011 (mentioned in this post). Below is a video of the Buchla and Haken Continuum portion of the lecture followed by a performance of Olivier Messiaen's Oraison written for the ondes Martenot at the 48:00 mark (see this post for the original version and this post for another performance by Richard). You will notice Richard makes references to earlier parts of the lecture. These included his training on the CEMS modular synthesizer system and the ondes Martenot (don't miss this post and this post on the CEMS). See the labels at the bottom of this post for more info on each. I will upload those videos at a later date. They were background to Richard's experience with early modular synthesizers and controllers that eventually lead him to the Buchla and Haken Continuum. It was a great lecture and I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to bookmark this one. I also want to thank Richard Lainhart for doing lectures like these. They are a rare treat.


YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on May 19, 2011

The following is a full transcript. BTW, if anyone is interested in transcription services, let me know.

"RICHARD LAINHART: BUCHLA AND HAKEN CONTINUUM LECTURE

Speaker: Richard Lainhart
Lecture Date: May 6, 2011
Lecture Time: 2:00 p.m. PST
Location: Western Washington University
Event: Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival 2011 (BEAF)
Length: Digital AVI recording; 57 minutes 32 seconds

[Beginning of recorded material]

Richard Lainhart: Okay. What I want to do now is actually talk a little bit about the system itself here and about the design of the system and explain what's actually happening here and why it's designed this way, and again, my focus on, on expression. So this is, as I mentioned, this is the Buchla 200E. This is a current electronic music instrument that is still being made now by Buchla. Don Buchla again was a contemporary, or is a contemporary of Bob Moog, and he took a very different path than Moog did. And one of the reasons I think that Moog's instruments became so popular, of course the Mini Moog was like the first real break-out electronic music synthesizer, was that Moog's instruments had keyboards on them. They had black and white keyboards. And you could use them to play, you could use them to play rock and roll with them basically because you could plug them into a really loud amplifier and it could be louder than a guitar. And it could be a bass, you know, it could be louder than a bass and all that sort of stuff. And of course a lot of, you know, a lot of wonderful music was made with that instrument.

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Beat707.com

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Arduino MIDIfied HAMMOND Autovari64 voicing card + Xoxbox seq

Arduino MIDIfied HAMMOND Autovari64 voicing card + Xoxbox seq from MP19 on Vimeo.

"MP19 Electronic Devices
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Touched by U (Loved Up Mix) - Quasmidi Quasar Sessions 1995 - 1997

YouTube Uploaded by NewTimeMusicUK on Jan 22, 2009

"Quasimidi Quasar Sessions. Originally recorded in 1996 this track uses only the Quasimidi Quasar and PR-100 recorded to standard tape."

MacBeth Modules

via Ken MacBeth's Photos

"Here's another shot of some of the Mk1 Modules- this is 8 x Mk1 Oscillator 'A' type/4 x Mk1 Oscillator 'B' type/4 Mk1 8 in Mixers/ 8 x Dual EGs/ 4 x Mk1 Filter 'A'/4 x Mk1 Filter 'B'...basicall 4 fat separate voices...!"

Quasimidi The Raven Max Synthesizer (1996)

YouTube Uploaded by retrosound72 on May 25, 2011

"synthesizer demo by RetroSound

Quasimidi The Raven Max Synthesizer from the year 1996

part1: some sequencer pattern + drums, mute, transpose...
part2: Raven Max sounds + Motivator (arpeggiator, gater, chord-trigger)"

EML Electrocomp 500 vintage analog synth

via this auction

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Extremely Rare 3 Manual LOWREY G-7000 Organ Synthesizer

via this auction
"This organ sold new for about $32,000

Auction includes Organ, Pedalboard, Nice Padded Bench, Owners Manual, Two "Style" cartridges [Variety 1 & Contempo 2] plus Two Lowrey Song books as pictured.

The organ has beautiful full sound with flutes and string sounds that Lowery organs are famous for via traditional organ stop tabs that are lighted plus a plethora of synthesized orchestral voices via lighted push buttons. The organ has a gorgeous, room-filling sound, from a host of built-in speakers including a very realistic Leslie rotating speaker simulator. Features GALORE!!

~THINK OF THIS ORGAN AS A GIANT PRESET SYNTHESIZER MONSTER!~

Built in Rhythms and auto accompaniment features makes this organ a breeze to play and learn on. Split-voicing function on lower keyboard gives you even more performance options - like having a phantom 4th keyboard/manual. Designed for both the beginner and advanced organist. Excellent for advanced players as well as the organ can be played as a typical organ without automatic features as well. This thing looks real cool when light up in a dimly lit room - My wife says it looks like a futuristic jukebox on steroids! Cabinet is in good condition with typical scratch/dents here-and-there and slight surface marring on left-side. Has tambour, wooden roll-top for when the organ is not being used. Lights and indicators on the back rail push-button control panel are working and lighted LCD display is in good condition and easy-to-read. Alesis Reverb. Lighted graphic mixer for balancing the organ voices /sounds to your liking. I brought this organ from an older gentleman's estate for conversion to a virtual theatre pipe organ and MIDI controller for external MIDI synthesizer modules because of the three full sized keyboards and pedalboard and its MIDI capabilities but decided to go in another direction. All functions on the organ were working fine when purchased but now the upper keyboard doesn't work as it should which I suspect was the result of moving the organ [movers placed it on its back when it was transported]. I don't have a local organ tech but have been in touch with a few organ techs on-line who said that the problem is most likely due to a loose circuit board that got disturbed during the move [not guaranteed that this is the problem, just a suggestion]. As it wasn't a concern of mine, I didn't pursue repairing the sound function as I was intending using it for its MIDI capabilities and creating a HUGE MONSTER Synthesizer & Virtual Pipe Organ. [However, if you want to use this organ with the internal voices, I wanted you to be aware of this and that the upper keyboard section will need attention].

The organ is heavy - about 300-350 +/- lbs."

via the Lowrey story pdf on Lowrey.com:
"1989 - Lowrey has brought forth the G-7000, the largest regular production home organ in the world, featuring three 61-note keyboards and 25 console pedals. The G-7000 represents the culmination of the Genius Series and uses the full compliment of Lowrey easy-play features. Digital Genius voicing is introduced, by far the most authentic- sounding musical voices available."

Bee Gees Rhythm Machine

via this auction

"This 1978 Vintage Bee Gees Rhythm Machine is a great addition to any music collection. The Mattel Synthesizer still works and has three different settings (Disco, Pop & Latin). It has been used by many artists to add a unique sound to a recording or live show. The auction comes with the original box and music book but both are in rough shape. The actual synthesizer is in great vintage shape with a clean battery compartment area and cover. Just plug in a 9-Volt battery and you are ready!"

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CONAIR Circuit Bent SOUNDS OF NATURE

via this auction
"It has 10 different nature sounds......, tropical forest, thunderstorm, summer night, ocean waves, whitenoise, heartbeat, songbirds, waterfall, running stream, rainfall.

I have add 2 body contacts,a pitch pot with ball knob to turn the pitch waaaaay down for amazing drone sounds and a RCA output jack to send the signal to an amp or stereo system. There is also an internal speaker so you don't have to plug it into an amp to hear sounds.

A great source for sampling sounds or for use live on stage. The size of this unit is approx.8" x 5" x 2". It uses 4 ``AA`` cells,not included. Will also work with a 9 volt power adaptor, not included.(If you use buy it now i will include a power adaptor)

Volume control on front of unit and a switch to set for auto timer on/off.

Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
- 2 body contacts that change the pitch and tone of the sound when you touch them.
- 1 Pitch change pot with ball knob to drop the pitch waaaaay down for amazing drone sounds.
- 1 RCA audio output jack to send the signal to an amp or stereo system.

This unit will work as normal with all bending controls off.This unit is designed for recording sounds in the studio. It can make some amazing sounds and drones! It makes sounds that you can't get from any other instrument! Great for techno, sound FX, electronic music."