RIP Pete Namlook

Ambient and electronic music producer, composer and founder of the German record label, FAX +49-69/450464 has passed away at the age of 52.  Below you'll find a track he composed with Ludwig Rehberg (E.M.S.) and an interview.  He worked with a Moog modular, pictured, and of course plenty of other synths.  Update: In 2008 he ordered two custom "Blue Meanie" MacBeth M5Ns. New image of Pete Namlook below.

via Wikipedia "Pete Namlook (born 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann [ˈkuːlmaːn] [Namlook is Kuhlmann in reverse] in Frankfurt, Germany, died on November 8th 2012[1]) was an ambient and electronic-music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. Inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, he also composes his own albums."

Image and documentary vids below via FACT mag which has a nice write-up on the work of Pete Namlook. Via Jose Luis Sanchez Rodriguez on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge you can also find a write-up on relaxed machinery.

Pete Namlook's Slice
Uploaded by monkeygra on Apr 7, 2009
"feature on German musician Pete Namlook, proprietor of FAX +49-69/450464

from issue 3-07 of Slices, the electronic music magazine

Electronic Beats
EB-DVD 011
15 September 2007

encoded by Tamas
fixed up, re-encoded, and uploaded to YouTube by Kyle
all of it for the FAXlist

http://www.eb-slices.net/
http://www.namlook.de/
http://2350.org/faxlist/

slices is a free magazine, so don't nobody try to make any money off of this"

The Putney (Pete Namlook & Ludwig Rehberg) - Putney Dust

YouTube via rtmnmk | June 12, 2009 - previously posted
Update: Re-Published by Music Delivery Service

"Excerpt from "The Putney Dust", Fax +49-69/450464 Recods, PK 08/76"

via THE SYNTHI: Pete Namlook and Ludwig Rehberg (E.M.S.)"

http://www.namlook.de
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pete+Namook

flickr By Dan Correia

"Pete Namlook (1960-2012) in Sonic Studio, Frankfurt. Taken by Geir Jenssen during the Fires of Ork recording sessions."

RPE Duo in Moog Factory

Published on Nov 15, 2012 by RPE Duo

"RPE Duo performing Nirvana's Something in the way. Video from our trip to Asheville, NC, USA where we played two gigs @ UNC - Asheville and Altamont Theater.

You can find more material including photos from Moog factory on our fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/RPEDuo

album: http://www.rpeduo.bandcamp.com

Music made with Elektron Machinedrum and Octatrack processing trumpet.
Video made with Sony A57."

^ [xor] synth - prototype

^ [xor] synth - prototype from standuino on Vimeo.

"thanks to Tim Barrass for the amazing Mozzi library
http://sensorium.github.com/Mozzi/
Arduino programming compatible - running on atmega 328
open source
http://www.standuino.eu/devices/instruments/xor-synth/
based on fraAngelico synthesizer
Features:
-MIDI Input
-polyphony 6 voices
-velocity sensitive
-selectable wavetable (sine,saw,triangle,noise)
-selectable bitoperator that modulates the wave (xor, or, and)
-overflow distortion
-envelope
-lfo
-presets"

Ableton Live 9 beta (audio to MIDI & Autechre)

Published on Nov 15, 2012 by designthemedia

"http://designthemedia.com + http://julienbayle.net
Track "are y are we" by AUTECHRE

As an ableton certified trainer, I'm lucky to be involved in the early beta test of Live 9
Here is some early plays with the very new audio to midi feature.
You can also see the glue compressor, the new browser too.

READ more about my Ableton Live 9 review:
http://julienbayle.net/blog/2012/10/27/ableton-live-9-and-max-for-live

CHECK my Ableton Live Courses:
http://designthemedia.com/fr/formations"

Sync-Gen II Software Update Version 1.0.6

via Innerclock where you'll find the full details.

"V 1.06 addresses an issue that may occur when changing Audio Buffer values in Ableton Live which results in Sync-Gen II starting at Bar 2.

Follow the Download Link below.

Simply run the installer over your previous version of Sync-Gen II – the installer does the rest."

Subtractor Meets Creamware ASB

This of course is just a render. I spotted it on Tommy Welsch of Anyware Instruments Facebook feed. What immediately came to mind was a Creamware ASB desktop synth. It's too bad they are gone.  It would have been interesting to see what else they could have come up with.  The Creamware Minimax and Prodyssey ASB boxes are known for sounding incredibly close to the originals and in turn, very, very good.   They also added polyphony, which made them the closest things you could get to a polyphonic Minimoog and ARP Odyssey.

When Creamware folded, Sonic Core and Use Audio were formed. Sonic Core still produces the Scope Platform which features the Minimax and Prodyssey software emulations and well as others. Use Audio released the models in their plugiator desktop hardware synth. Sonic Core also worked with John Bowen Synth Design on the Solaris.


Subtractor of course is part of Propellerhead's Reason.

Kevin Spears on Kalimba and Moog Ring Modulator

Published on Nov 15, 2012 by experimentalsynth

"Kevin Spears explores new soundscapes playing his kalimba through a Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator. More at www.experimentalsynth.com"

Gestrument Demo

Published on Nov 15, 2012 by Apps4idevicesMusic

http://www.apps4idevices.com/read/gestrument

"Wahou...!!! I love, love Gestrument! Because you can create a symphonic arrangement with one finger! 128 instruments are available in the built in library (with great sound quality). 8 instruments can play at the same time. Move your finger on the dedicated area to play notes. In the Edit window you can set 2 scales and morph between them by using a second finger on the Pad window. With your second finger you can also change the Pitch, the Rhythm (you can also set the rhythm so the notes play in the Edit window), the Dynamics and the Pulse (Density). You can also control an external Synthesizer with Gestrument. The only drawbacks are that you can't record your Performances (so share them) or import a Backing track. Note that it is only the v1.0 of Gestrument and perhaps that in a future update these features will be added... As I said at the start of this review, I really, really love Gestrument, for its originality, for it's sound quality and I'm sure I'll use it for my personal projects... So, despite what it lacks I rate it as a Killer App"

iTunes:
Gestrument - Jesper Nordin
iPads on eBay, on Amazon

Raymond Scott Radio Special Featuring Jeff E. Winner, Thom Rhea & More

"To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Raymond Scott's music, Brian Carpenter will host a live 3-hour WZBC radio special on Friday, November 16th, at 7pm EST. Co-hosted by Jeff E. Winner (me) of the RS Archives, and Tom Rhea (Berklee, MOOG Music), with special guests: J.G. Thirlwell (FOETUS, STEROID MAXIMUS), DJ SPOOKY, Stu Brown, Will Friedwald, Daniel Goldmark, Irwin Chusid, David Harrington (KRONOS QUARTET), and more. LISTEN HERE: http://wzbc.org/ -or- tune your boombox to 90.3 FM.

http://raymondscott.blogspot.com/2012/10/live-wzbc-radio-special-with-irwin.html"

via Jeff E. Winner on Facebook

Update via Jeff E. Winner in the comments: "• LISTEN HERE: The show can now be streamed from its permanent home: http://briancarpenter.net/content/radio-webcasts-imaginationandinnovation.html"

Access Virus B Ambient Drone

Beautiful melodic ambient drone instrumental music arpeggiator soundscape (Access Virus B synth)

Published on Nov 14, 2012 by synth4ever

"Beautifully lush, relaxing, atmospheric instrumental ambient space music drone soundscape -- performed & improvised live on Access Virus B synthesizer.

Created using 2 sine/square wave oscillators, delay, filter/envelope adjustments, resonance and a simple repeating arpeggiator pattern.

All sounds you hear were played live and manipulated in real-time, no external processing. Excerpt taken from a longer 30 minute session. Hope you enjoy.

For more:
http://synth4ever.bandcamp.com -- download tracks or buy album
http://www.facebook.com/synth4ever.music
http://www.soundcloud.com/synth4ever
http://www.youtube.com/synth4ever"