Circuit Bent Speak & Read by A.S.M.O.

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by eddie23a

"Texas Instruments Speak & Read circuit bent to the max by A.S.M.O.

Pitch + CV input
Short loop + loop advance
Long loop + loop advance
Long loop randomize
Glitch x 3
Distortion push button
Distortion / loop glitch
Tone x 2 with volume controls + on/off push button
Voltage death / ring mod effect
Distortion / loop glitch
Blue LED
1/4 audio out jack"

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Dovinia "Sylvania" Modular Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by Dovinia

"Sometimes I wanna do bad things to small lap top speakers. Todays piece is an exploration of random note sequencing courtesy of the Doepfer A-149-1 "Source of Uncertainty" clone module. Running this into the A-106-5 SEM filter creates some interesting rhythmic effects. I drove the tape into saturation on purpose. Noodles!"

Korg MS2000 "Stingray"

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by synthartist69

Note the MS2000 only has four notes of polyphony.

Quick Bytes - Z3TA+ 2 Overview

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by CakewalkSoftware

"More info http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Z3TA/
The legendary wave-shaping synth Z3ta+ returns and is now available for the first time for Mac as well as PC."

strange sculptures and sounds

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by pianoloft

"the soundtrack combines noises from the wokingprocess in the "wabi sabi atelier" next to vienna with the electronic music of martin kratochwil. we were building some strange sculptures, useing driftwood, cardboards, boxes, music tapes and some other rotten materials.
more info: http://wabi-sabi-pavillion.blogspot.co.at/
by max lorenz and martin kratochwil"

Buchla Phased and Balanced

YouTube Published on Jul 31, 2012 by djangosfire

"Buchla 100 Series: Model 196 Phase Shifter + Model 194 Bandpass Filter + Quad Lopass Gates + Jason R. Butcher VCBM Balanced Modulator + Modcan 59a Delay (DIY Buchla format delay) + 258v Dual Oscillator...... and a few other modules. All come together for "Buchla Phased and Balanced".

The 196 on it's own is almost not even noticeable. It takes some creative mixing/patching to pull out that deep phase shifter effect - via feedback loops and LPG's opening and closing the animated sound."

2012 Decibel Festival Full Lineup Announced!

"2012 Decibel Festival Full Lineup - 30+ new performers added!

30+ performers have been added to the 2012 9th Annual Decibel International Festival including the legendary DJ Shadow, MiMOSA, Tycho, Star Slinger, Tipper, Dam-Funk, Clark, Jimmy Edgar, Sepalcure, Public Lover, Machinedrum, George FitzGerald, Peter Van Hoesen, Objekt, Braille, Jeff Samuel, Groudislava, Eprom, AntiVJ, B.Bravo, Keyboard Kid and more.

Previously announced headliners for this trend-setting festival, known as the SXSW of electronic music, include Orbital, The Cannabinoids featuring Erykah Badu, Kimbra, Carl Craig, Shpongle, Matthew Dear, Ariel Pink and Star Slinger. See lineup of over 130 artists on flyer below or artist bios on the festival website. STILL more to be announced.

ABOUT DECIBEL FESTIVAL
Decibel Festival is an annual Seattle festival of electronic music, performance, visual art and new media. Generally taking place the last week of September, it has booked over 800 artists ranging from experimental, to leading-edge electronic dance music and visual art. With a focus on live performance, interactive multimedia art, state-of-the-art sound and technology-based education, Decibel has solidified itself as one of the premier electronic music festivals and promotional organizations in the world.

For the 9th Annual Festival, Decibel expects to hit 30k attendees this year with over 130 artists from 19 different countries, plus dozens of educational speakers, making Decibel Festival an oracle for the growth of the entire international electronic music scene. The entire festival will takes place from September 26-30 at over 14 venues in Seattle, Washington.

The schedule, venues and line-up can be found below and on the Decibel website. 2nd Tier discount passes are available online and at various outlets until they sell out."

Resonations

Resonations from bar|none on Vimeo.

Soundplane + KYMA playing a model of a resonating string instrument. What instrument? Something unknown but wonderful and expressive.

Imaginary instruments are the world that is KYMA.

The sound is a resonation synth that models initial attack and picking of a string + the resonations and feedback associated with a resonating instrument body. More pressure means more feedback and energy into the resonations.

Spent some time with this sound to make it respond properly with the soundplane.
Faster hits and you hear the picking. Vibrato and you hear the scraping on the strings.

I can't tell you how this feels to play but I can say that you forget this is a controller and it feels like playing something tactile like a real instrument.

This uses the Madronalabs Soundplane to send OSC to KYMA directly via ethernet, no MIDI here. The soundplane client supports zeroconf discovery of OSC capable devices, so KYMA pacarana appears as an OSC destination and that is all required to connect the two. Symbolic Sound helped with the integration.

The result is very high resolution control of the sound that you can feel as you play the Soundplane.

Adventure Time End Credits Song Cover Christmas Island

YouTube Published on Jul 31, 2012 by PrincessPangolin

"My cover of The Adventure Time end credits song, Christmas Island, originally by Ashley Eriksson. These are my best adventuring pals Spooky and Polly. Polly recently started playing the piano, and it's tops blooby."

Anyone ID the organ with built in rhythm section? Omnichord gets a label in this one as well, so I'm assuming they are the higher octave strummed chords.

Update via The Analog Lab in the comments: "The organ is an Optigan!"

KEIO SYNTHESIZER TRAVELER SINGING GEISHA

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"For your consideration is this vintage Keio Synthesizer Traveler "Singing Geisha" wah/fuzz/synth effects pedal. This particular example, serial number 720147, is in very excellent all original condition. It works perfectly, sounds incredibly interesting, and with some familiarity, it becomes a very expressive and completely unique voice. With 4 separate volume/blend knobs related to different features of the pedal along with a traditional wah-style foot-operated pitch control, and 2 stomp switches, the pedal is actually incredibly versatile. The singing tone is not reminiscent of the "siren" feature of concurrent Shin-Ei units, and as mentioned, the pitch of which can actually be controlled, producing a pleasant theremin-esque synth sound."

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