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"Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, currently including the first three singles Crystalline, Virus, and Moon.
via Lace: "The sequential Drumtraks uses common B20k potentiometers (pots). You can buy a replacement pot from your local electronics/hobby store. In this case we used a B20k pot. You simply take off the black caps of the face side, then unscrew the top inside motherboard. The pots are bolted directly to the motherboard. Unbolt them first then de-solder them, their design makes it hard to use a solder sucker so you may need to heat all three pads by quickly passing your soldering iron over them, and wiggle out the pot while the lead is molten. Just be careful not to be too hard, take the time. You can clean the pads properly once the pot is removed. There's plenty of space between solder pads.
Bend the pins upward on the new pot then bolt in place and solder it once it is secured. Screw the motherboard back in, be careful to make it fit. Don't force anything. Close the lid and put the front screws back in. Put on the caps and you're done. Weee. Sequential knobs are tough to find. If you need sequential looking caps, Futurlec sells the closest approximation I have found so far. They have 4 sizes, black and silver aluminium and other styles like roland/boss 80's looking plastic caps, with colored tops. Good for DIY/repairs. On the final shot you see four of their black aluminium pots mounted on the drumtraks.
Drumtraks manage to always sit nicely in a mix. The sounds seem basic on their own, but when played against each other in a live pattern the result shines. It's definitely a machine you want to make a pattern with and record, rather than sample.
I made a down tempo track called "ballad of sin" for the b-side of my next 7" release with the drumtraks and the CZ5000, you can hear both dry together at the beginning. The pumping reverb and effects on my voice are the compressors in the tascam DM4800 being over driven. Regardless of what goes on around, the Drumtraks just sits in there and pushes the whole track through like a John Deere tractor. The beat I made is simple yet the machine's tone makes it very compelling. That's not an easy task for a 27 year old 8bit digital drum machine with no effects."
Ballad of sin by lacedj "A chill out down tempo track I wrote after a shitty weekend of stress at the club. I used the Casio CZ 5000 with pitch modulation to get the wide moving chords, and the sequential drumtraks for the main basic beat. The beat sample is a reconstruction. The voice sample is my voice treated and detuned in ableton."
"Moog Freqbox 1 VCO out to Freqbox 2 in Freqbox 2 VCO out to Freqbox 1 in FB out's to 2x Analogue Systems RS 100 to Make Noise Optomix Freqbox CV in from Renè via Toppobrillo Quantimator Freqbox env in ,fm in and wave in from Moog MP 201 ( Midi sync) clocked by Logic via 4ms RCD trigger for Optomix from Renè ( XY ) and Kenton clock out mixed by CP251to ADSR from Sherman filterbank 2 Drum Logic Ultrabeat 3 tracks"
via this auction "Reasons to love this synthesizer:
-Radiohead used it on Exit Music (For a Film) off of the OK Computer album. That awesome fuzzy bass line came right out of this synthesizer!
-CV/Gate outputs to control vintage analog equipment. The only real alternative to this is to buy a midi-to-cv/gate converter that will cost as much as the super bass station, if not more.
-It can do a whole lot more than just make great bass sounds. Although it was marketed specifically for this function, there is nothing preventing it from generating leads, pads, noise, or whatever you can think of!
-It's an analog synthesizer with full midi implementation. "
Taylor Kuffner lets us into his work space and talks about his roboticized gamelan dubbed the "Gamelantron" which he uses Ableton to control. He also talks about his desire to create real physical live music experiences through creative means through both his Gamelantron and experiments with multipoint sound installations.
The Gamelatron is built with technology from LEMUR. LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots is a group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by Eric Singer, LEMUR creates exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology. The result is computer-controlled mechanized acoustic musical instruments which can perform music by and with human musicians.
http://lemurbots.org/"
"Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, currently including the first three singles Crystalline, Virus, and Moon.
