MATRIXSYNTH

BEAM FESTIVAL

"24-26 JUNE 2011

Sarah Nicols and her colleagues at Brunel University are hosting their first edition of the BEAM Festival (Brunel Electronic & Analog Music Festival) between 24-26 June 2011. The program features some of the best in today’s experimental electronic music including Tim Exile, Stelarc, Jennifer Walshe, Leafcutter John, Philip Jeck and more. STEIM is a proud partner of the festival, contributing to the concert and workshop programs. Check out the line-up, and participate in the festival!

http://www.beamfestival.com/

Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, UB8 3PH

BEAM is a high-tech music weekender, an experimental playground of homemade instruments and sonic robots. Featuring three days of performances, installations, discussions and workshops, BEAM explores the physical virtuosity of electronic music; everything at BEAM moves. An international line-up curated for veterans and beginners alike, BEAM takes place at Brunel University, NW London (Metropolitan Line).

Tickets and programme at www.beamfestival.com

Festival pass £25 - ONLY £50 with accommodation until 9 June
Day passes from £10 Sunday, £15 Friday and Saturday Concessions available
Workshop tickets now on sale for Tom Bugs, STEIM & Dirty Electronics

Festival Highlights include:

PERFORMANCES

Stelarc and Jennifer Walshe; Chikashi Miyama (Angry Sparrow); Sarah Angliss; Ryan Jordan; Leafcutter John; Tim Exile; Stephen Cornford; Atau_and_Adam; Alex Nowitz; Philip Jeck; Tim Exile; DJ Sniff; STEIM and more

WORKSHOPS

Build your own WOM (simple electronic noise synth kit ) with Tom Bugs; create a Cracklebox with Daniel Schorno of STEIM; Dirty Electonics with John Richards Plus free workshops: Psychedelic Goggle with Ryan Jordan; AV Micro-Controllers with Chikashi Miyama and Music from Motion with Sarah Angliss.

INSTALLATIONS

Installed work by Aleks Kolkowski, Ray Lee and BEAM OPEN SPACE artists; Sonic Picnic with Paul Whitty & Felicity Ford; SARC's brain-powered sleepover on Saturday night - bring a sleeping bag!

See the website for full programme details and tickets www.beamfestival.com

BEAM Festival is funding by Arts Council England¹s Grants for the Arts."

This one in via brian comnes.

Ghazala iPad 2 Audio Desk

YouTube Uploaded by qrghazala on May 29, 2011

"I've been sneaking around Apple's garden for a long time, dating back to the Apple II motherboard hacked into my code-munching poly-synth of the early '80's. I've modded iMacs, towers, endless accessories, and I've drastically bent mac-centric code with wonderful result. This movie loosens another brick in Apple's wall, and opens the iPad's usability tremendously.

I know I'm not the only individual appreciating the experimental music apps available on the iPad. I'm anxious to support the developers' fine work. But for musicians, the iPad's interface can be frustrating. Do you really want to use dongles, mini-jacks and flimsy wire to get in and out of the thing?

This audio breakout solves these problems, is easy to do, and is inexpensive.

No bending here, just a quick, theory-true hack based upon iPad docking charts I found online. Not a superdock. No competition for the Alesis breakout. But if you want a slick, basic and functional DIY audio desk, on the cheap, check this hack out!

The breakout board is available at kineteka.com

Be sure to see the photos and REVISIONS, and pick-up the printable schematic at my iPad Audio Desk flickr gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonbear3325/sets/72157626688587705/

This audio desk is really fun to use. Hacking the apple is always a good thing. I hope you'll enjoy the movie! (Let it download for full-screen 1080).

-Reed Ghazala"

Reed Ghazala is considered the father of circuit bending. See the Ghazala label below for more including the Ghazala Thereglyph.

First look at the Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes

First look at the Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"First look at the new Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes. Just checking out the interface, and listening through a few presets on one drum loop.

sugar-bytes.com/content/products/Turnado/index.php?lang=en"

1978 Roland "Groupies Aren't Everything" Ad Featuring SH-5

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Buchla Music Easel - with friends

flickr By rick604

Memorymoog Synthesizer Model 3458

via this auction

Moog Prodigy

via this auction

SN 3803X ?

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Realistic Moog MG-1 with Origina Box

via this auction

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Roland AMDEK COMPU MUSIC CMU-800

via this auction
"Branded as 'Amdek' but is actual fact exactly the same as the Roland branded cmu-800

'Although Roland were based in Hamamatsu by the early '80s, Kakehashi established the AMDEK Corporation in Osaka. Their main product lines were small effects units and computer monitors manufactured for Roland (but not by Roland) in Taiwan. For a couple of years, the company proved to be surprisingly successful but, as competition mounted, Kakehashi decided not to compete with the large computer companies entering the market, and in 1983 he ceased supplying monitors, simultaneously discontinuing the effects units. But this was not the end for the company. Kakehashi renamed it the 'Roland DG Corporation', and then used it as a vehicle to release a range of the company's own computer and music peripherals.'"