GET BENT 4.0 Circuit Bending workshop this Sunday

via Dr. Bleep (Bleep Labs)
"Sunday, June 19th, 1-5pm, all ages, $10 donation toward supplies requested
Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., Austin, TX

New Media Art and Sound Summit and Artificial Music Machine present the fourth installment in a series of circuit bending events titled Get Bent! The afternoon will begin with a short presentation by Artificial Music Machine co-founder and sound artist Thomas Fang on the history and theory of circuit bending, defined as the creative short-circuiting of electronic devices that produce sounds. Background information.

The bulk of the event will consist of a hands-on workshop in which participants will modify electronic devices to produce new sounds. Soldering irons, wire, switches, potentiometers, and some devices will be provided, but attendees are encouraged to bring screwdrivers and inexpensive electronic toys to bend. Examples: small keyboards, Speak & Spell, Furby, Barbie karaoke machine, toy guitars, etc. No previous knowledge of electronics is required.

After the workshop, from 4-5pm, everyone with a device can plug in for an open jam session!

To ensure a space at this event, please RSVP by sending email to: thomas.fang@gmail.com [let them know you saw this on MATRIXSYNTH!]

More details: http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com
New Media Art and Sound Summit: http://www.nmassfest.org"

Requiem of the Lost - Ondrej Pochyly - Playing virtual instruments live with wii controllers

YouTube Uploaded by timespace08 on Jun 13, 2011

"Organised by composer Ondrej Pochyly, with funding from the National Arts Council and sponsored by Time+Space, The Exeter Classical Music Event will take place on 2nd July 2011 in the courtyard of Exeter Castle, Devon.

For computer musicians, Ondrej Pochyly´s performance of his ´Requiem for the Lost´ will no doubt prove to be one of the most interesting events of the day as he conducts an entirely ´virtual´ orchestra using Nintendo Wii remotes to control the tempo and dynamics.

See how he has created the Requiem and which virtual instruments he has used in this video including Cinesamples VOXOS and Vienna Symphonic Library products...

More information about the event can be found at:
http://www.timespace.com/events"

Sebastien San Darker Shades With Waldorf Wave

YouTube Uploaded by sebastiensan1 on Jun 13, 2011

"Short Teaser of the recording of Darker Shades at Bass Park Studio"

Roland Synth Plus HS-60 (Juno 106) and Vermona DRM III do Moroder / Jarre / that 80s arpeggio thing

YouTube Uploaded by nibkey on Jun 13, 2011

"This is a very quick demo of some analogue kit in my studio as there are not too many demos of actual HS-60 nor many of the DRM III backing anything.

Drums - DRM III with a bit of compression, reverb and pingpong delay in Live

Bass and pad - HS-60 with reverb and delay in Live

Criticisms - Arrangement is crap - yes, it was literally made in 30 mins. It's derivative - yep, was meant to be a sort of early to mid 80s thing with the bassline and as it was quick I just used simple chords.

If you do like any of this, or are intrigued anyway, check out my actual, properly produced music at www.soundcloud.com/britishairwaves (including Dave Pearce's Radio 6 Music track of the week "Vellocet")"

prophet 5 synthesizer

via this auction

"Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Synth. Rev 3.3 with midi.
Serial number 4793"

Godwin SC249 String Concert Synth

via this auction

Monday noise session

YouTube Uploaded by DrOctave1 on Jun 13, 2011

"just a little 4/4 groove with the modular all modular no other machines. no drum machines no computer nothing..."

Knobfarm - sunday morning jam session

YouTube Uploaded by ventouse on Jun 13, 2011

"Better quality on soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/phonosheet/knobfarm-sunday-morning-jam

Space House Live Vermona Mono Lancet Roland Tr-707 Juno 106 Juno106 Cosmicdisco Cosmic"

Hadikat Raja IV, Deuxième Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jun 13, 2011

"Composition for Keyboard Virus TI. As usual all paintings and drawings by me, except 15 drawings in american comics style by my friend Olivier Michel, alias Doctor Comics, created for a common project ( they are included in the long series of small paintings and drawings in the begining of this second part)."

Néboa jamming with the -hard plAYer-

Uploaded by Tolaemon on Jun 12, 2011

"8bit artist Néboa jamming with the - hard plAYer-. He improvises with an analog Korg keyboard and the Commodore 64 over a loop played by the AY-3891x based synth -hard plAYer- . Sorry, the quality of the image and the sound is not perfect, this video was recorded with a standard compact photo camera."

via Tolaemon: "Hard plAYer is a hardware synthesizer based on the AY-3891x chip. This chip was used in the 80s on some popular home computers like Spectrum ZX, Oric, Amstrad CPC, MSX , Vectrex or Atari ST. Despite AY-3891x has not all the features SID has, it also produces a very rich and characteristic 80s "8 bits sound"."


YouTube Uploaded by Tolaemon on Jun 12, 2011

"8bit artist Néboa jamming with the - hard plAYer-. He improvises with his vibraphone and an analog keyboard, over a loop played by the AY-3891x based synth -hard plAYer- . Sorry, the quality of the image and the sound could be better, but this video was recorded with a standard compact photo camera."

The -hard plAYer- finished and working

Uploaded by Tolaemon on Feb 16, 2009

"In this video you can see how the -hard plAYer- looks after having mounted it into it's new case. You can also see most of it's functions working."