MATRIXSYNTH

Mathius Shadow-Sky performs 'Music with No Name' the May 27, 2012

YouTube Published on Jun 23, 2012 by centrebombe
KORG Mono/Poly & Chinese Violin. All KORG Mono/Poly track below.

"1.76 of 9th states extract from Mathius Shadow-Sky's 2012 pilot solo performance in the fog live at the Ring Theater, mixing an analogue synthesizer from the 80s with a Chinese violin called jinghu (used in Pekinese opera to double singing voices) gives: 'Music with No Name' as invisible music in lightness. The function of the fog is to play with our conditioned perceptions inside of the uncallable unnamed music (avoiding strong stereotypes): does it?

camera: Benoit Maestre

more info: http://centrebombe.org/gigs_dates.html

...strange acoustical condition isn't it?...

« L'ancien compositeur écrivain & le nouveau compositeur réalisateur : du XIXe au XXI siècle

La domination politique (de censure) dans les arts (politique culturelle), le développement, l'accessibilité et la vulgarisation de l'informatique pour la création musicale, l'industrie dominante du divertissement, l'académisme des institutions, le refus social de l'originalité au nom de l'intégration à l'uniformisation culturelle, la globalisation sur la tonalité du dollar depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ou l'américanisation du monde, le développement de la pauvreté dans l'abondance, la scission entre la « musique contemporaine » et la « musique expérimentale », l'isolation de l'individu consommateur, etc. Toutes ces révolutions et ces conditionnements de vie changent les comportements de celles et ceux qui s'adaptent aux conditions différentes de travail et de ce qui est rendu possible ou pas au présent. Ce contexte a changé aussi l'activité du compositeur de musique. ... » Mathius Shadow-Sky

La suite à : http://centrebombe.org/livre/app.13.html

2010 analogue synthesizer solo performance with no video called ASSEEEEEEEEEZ at: http://soundcloud.com/myster-shadow-sky"

ASSEEEEEEEEEEEEZ (MonoPoly Myster Shadow-Sky's solo performance) by Myster Shadow-Sky
"ASSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ is a live act given by Myster Shadow-Sky during his illness in November 2010 with a solo analogue synthesizer (the Korg MonoPoly). The music as "Imperfect Or Infected Life" created in 1999 is to be mixed with other music and sounds. An "incomplete music to mix with whatever for high powered dance". "Assez" in French means enough, illustrated in following published freebooks: http://centrebombe.org/livre/ASSEEEEEEZ.2010.pdf & http://centrebombe.org/livre/ASSEEEEEEZ.2011.pdf [in French].
Released by: centrebombe.org
Release/catalogue number: # ObCD 54-10 - 65:15
Release date: Nov 25, 2010
"ASSEEEEEEEEEEEEZ (MonoPoly Myster Shadow-Sky's solo performance)" by Myster Shadow-Sky is licensed under a Creative Commons License"

Maestro Ring Modulator

on Craigslist Vancouver

"The Maestro Ring Modulator was the first commercially available stand alone ring mod. This unit is in fantastic cosmetic shape, and sounds great. Expression pedal inputs allow for sweepable foot control of the pitch and rate (roland ev 5 works fine with this unit)."

You can find some history on the Maestro Ring Modulator in this post.

Echophon vs. Bill Monroe & no-input mixing

Echophon vs. Bill Monroe from Pete Shambler on Vimeo.

Signal path is Discman --> A-119 --> Echophon
A-119 Gate out --> Echophon Freeze in

Echo time and feedback, as well as pitch shifting frequency and depth, are played by hand.

www.theshamblers.blogspot.com

Echophon: VC no-input mixing from Pete Shambler on Vimeo.

Using an Echophon, Dr. Octature and Noisering to create a voltage-controlled feedback system similar to a no-input mixing channel.

Doc Oc is patched into the Echophon's external feedback loop. The Noisering's 1 and 2 outs are patched to the 1v/oct* and Q CV ins on the Octature. A high enough resonance will cause the filter to oscillate. The recirculating echos give the whole thing a nice ghostly quality.

This is a handy patch to have on hand if you ever find yourself having to do background music for a late night, Creature Feature type show on public access.

www.theshamblers.blogspot.com

*Maths is acting as a slew limiter between Noisering out 1 and Doc Oc 1v/oct in.

Roland JP-8080 Analog Modeling Synthesizer

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Forty knobs and sliders

COMPLETE Dubreq PianoMate

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"Made in the 1970s in England by Dubreq, who also made the Stylophone, it's an add-on sound expander for a piano or any type of keyboard instrument.
The system consists of a small amplifier with built-in tone generators, a swell / volume pedal, and two sensor bars that just sit on the keyboard of a piano or similar instrument. Nothing actually gets attached to the piano, gravity hold the sensors in place. When the piano key is struck, the sensor touching that key drops down and the tone generator is triggered.

It sounds a lot like a Farfisa organ, and the amp gets pretty loud but you probably can't gig with it. This is more of a curiosity than a real professional instrument, but it is very cool if you're into kitschy and funky keyboard gear"

Serge Modular little beat fast and simple

YouTube Published on Jun 23, 2012 by DrOctave1

"Serge Modular doing the synth line and delay and proc exfade 606 for drum sounds"

Spring Reverb !

Spring Reverb ! from CircuitsOverAll on Vimeo.

Serge 1973 VCF with OG Spring reverb !

The Return of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as Virtual Institution

Doctor Who (1963) - Original Theme music video

YouTube Uploaded by unstrungzero on Mar 30, 2009

via Atomic Shadow spotted on Wired

"According to the Workshop's site: 'in 2012 as part of thespace.org, an innovative new digital arts media service created in joint partnership between the BBC and the arts council the radiophonic workshop is being reborn'.

It continues: 'Instead of being confined to rooms full of equipment in Maida Vale studios in London, the new Radiophonic Workshop will instead be a virtual institution, visibly manifested as an online portal and forum for discussion around the challenges of creating new sounds in a world saturated in innovative music technology but lacklustre in terms of actual original output. We will primarily bring together two key disciplines: music composition and software design, and as such its members will be drawn from the cutting edge of both.'"

Dr. Who video above:
"From "Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection (1963)" Disc 1

The original full-length theme music, with original 1963 title sequence visual elements.

Composed by Ron Grainer, realized by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop."

LIDER-2 SOVIET ANALOG GUITAR MICRO PROCESSOR SYNTH

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"LIDER-2 (produced by Formanta factory in 1982 - the one which made a legendary POLIVOKS) is a guitar microsynthesizer designed to be applied by guitar players who use external effects in the live performance or studio work. The synthesizer is a floor-mounted unit with five rubber footswitches; it also has sliders and knobs for changing the parameters of effects. LEADER-1 has 5 main series sections: tonecorrector, flanger, chorus, solo, rhythm. - everyone with its own parameters and indicators. Commutation: line input, output (line, phone, amplifier). On the outer surface of the bottom panel, an input sensitivity regulator is situated.

Specifications:
— CONTROLS: General -
amplifier (ON)
output (effect, scale)
trigger (ON)
indicators - control, overload, effect.
— TONECORRECTOR: range, brightness, rate, width;
— FLANGER: range, brightness, rate, width;
— CHORUS: frequency, detune;
— RHYTHM: guitar;
— SOLO: spectrum, rocktone, suboctave.
— Weight, 8 kg (approx. 18 Pounds)"

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