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Roland GR-300 Polyphonic Guitar Synthesizer

"Portland Trailblazers" Roland Jupiter 4

via this auction

SN 902025

"There is an inscription on the back that says "Portland Trailblazers Bill Blunk Oregon." The serial number dates it to one of the last revisions before they switched to the IR3109 Filter Chips, so this one is still BA662. 4 Voices of analog bliss!"

Update via David Anderson in the comments: "A little about Bill Blunk:
http://www.pstos.org/organists/or/blunk.htm"

"Bill has had an exciting and varied career as an organist -- since we have known him, he was organist for several years for the Portland Trailblazer National Basketball team, as well as organist at Uncle Milt's Pipe Organ Pizza Company. Now retired, he still plays regularly at a retirement center, purely for the pleasure of doing so. Needless to say, he is eager to see the Marr & Colton up and playing again, as we all are!"

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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")"