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ELECTRIC TEA 2.0 @ Urbanscapes Festival 2010

ELECTRIC TEA 2.0 @ Urbanscapes Festival 2010 from Ion Ray on Vimeo.

"Electric Tea 2.0 is the second in a series of works that put sound where it doesn't belong.

This table was an installation at the 2010 Urbanscapes Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The sounds in the water come from 8 MP3 players playing synced sounds that looped every 5 minutes. Left and right channels each played different sounds yielding 16 individual sounds to play with.

The 4 orbs are connected to the speaker in the middle of the table. When a person holds an orb and touches the water at the same time, the sound passes through their body and into the speaker. Multiple notes can be played by touching more than one cup.

For more info- lavajumperstudios.com

About the Artists

Ion Ray (Michael Ion Furjanic)- is a musician, sound designer and inventor living in Kuala Lumpur.

Isaac Souweine- is a media producer and designer living in Singapore."

Update: You might remember Electric Tea 1.0 from 2010

Network SID Device

YouTube Uploaded by markusgritsch on Jul 14, 2011

"Hi,

I wrote an alternative firmware for my HybridSID device: It can now act as a 'Network SID Device' and can be used as the sound output device for 'ACID 64' [1] and 'GoatTracker' [2].

I also implemented a small "dual boot" firmware which runs at power-on and which allows selecting the desired use case by pressing the left or right button: Pressing the left button starts in the stand-alone 'HybridSID' mode, pressing the right button starts the 'Network SID Device' mode where the device receives the register values for the SID chip from the application running on a PC.

Beside the disadvantage of not being stand-alone, the 'Network SID Device' mode has several benefits:
* Newer tunes containing samples are only released in RSID format which the TinySID library used in stand-alone mode cannot play. ACID 64 plays them nicely.
* ACID 64 sends the cycle information together with the register values, so it is possible to write the registers of the chip at the precise time. The new firmware is cycle exact.
* Easier tune selection due to the larger PC screen and richer GUI program. Also the STIL information can be viewed.
* ACID 64 has a nice song position slider to jump to an arbitrary time-position in the tune.

ACID 64 sends the data to a socket connection on port 6581. Traditionally, there is 'Java SIDplay2' listening on this port, so ACID 64 can be used to drive this sophisticated SID emulator.

To get ACID 64 talking to my device, I wrote a small socket server in Python which handles the socket communication with ACID 64, and writes the received cycle info and register values to my device. This is done through an emulated serial port which the 'Network SID Device' firmware provides via a CDC/ACM USB device class.

Please find the source code attached to this post.

Enjoy,
Markus

[1] http://www.acid64.com/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/goattracker2/"

Sequential Circuits Prophet Vs with extras

via this auction

"Still has all the original parts and original stickers on it. Usually you will find that the top right sticker is gone, a bad button or the vector stick is broken or replaced. This is all original and has been really taking care of over the years."

KORG MS20 Vintage Analog Synth w/ Original Case

via this auction where you'll find a few more pics.

SN 142018

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YAMAHA SK20 Symphonic Ensemble

via this auction

SN 1167

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Bubblesound uLFO Synth Module

via this auction

Circuit Bent KAWAI Drum Machines by Squidfanny

YouTube Uploaded by squidfanny on Jul 14, 2011

"Another wicked Kawai drum machine.... This one's got the infamous R-100 Rom, with rock-solid Synthethic Drums and Percussion.

Sounds and Beats instantly recognizable to fans of Wax-Trax and generally anyone who listened to music in the late 80's / Early 90's.

Loads of Mods on this machine, including some really filthy Distortion."

Squidfanny - Circuit Bent KAWAI R-50e (2010)

Uploaded by squidfanny on Jul 14, 2011

"My Favourite Digital Drum Machine, the KAWAI R-50e. Pure Synthethic Drums, and instantly recognizable Hits and Bass."

Update:

Squidfanny - Circuit Bent KAWAI R-50e Drum Machine (Electronic ROM) july 2011

Uploaded by squidfanny on Jul 14, 2011

"Glitch Drums, Busted Beats, Digital Slap Bass and the infamous 'Fairlight Orchestral Hit'.

Loads of mods, designed for performance....

The R-50e is one of the greatest Drum Machines ever made, and an under-rated hero of the 1980's.
It was regulaly used in 100's of movie soundtracks including the original 'Terminator' movie & 'Robocop'. Early Manga movies all loved the r-50e and electronic music owes much to the Hits and samples contained within this innocent looking drum Machine.

Do you want one??? Well you'll have to fight me on ebay!!"