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capusotto vs rock sinfonico

Uploaded on Jun 14, 2008 german Koopmann·12 videos

"peter capusotto arremete contra la presuntuosidad del rock sinfónico; hay una clara referencia a wakeman, tecladista de yes, a quienes de todas formas, seguimos amando"

Googlish:
"peter capusotto attacks the presumptuousness of symphonic rock, there is a clear reference to Wakeman, keyboardist yes, whom anyway, still love"

Serge Tcherepnin Coming Back to Modular with Tiptop Audio

Serge Tcherepnin, the man behind the original Serge Modular Music Systems from the 1970s is back at the drawing board with Tiptop Audio. This is HUGE news. Another legend of synthesizer history has returned. Note the newer Serge Modular systems are from Rex Probe's Sound Transform Systems. Serge Tcherepnin will be working with Tiptop Audio on new designs.

Update: they will be working on bringing both the older designs to euro format as well as new designs modified to be used with Tiptop stackable cables in lieu of banana jack. Note older designs including modifications have been available in multiple formats via other manufacturers including Ken Stone's CGS and Bananalogue. A VCO and the noise source are in the works. The noise source is actually the original Serge design (the copyright is for the new schematic), and can be used independently, or can used in conjunction with the SSG to create a random voltage generator. (see the comments below)

Some history on Serge Tcherepnin from Wikipedia:

"Serge Tcherepnin is the son of composer Aleksandr Nikolayevich Tcherepnin and grandson of composer Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin. His mother was Chinese pianist Lee Hsien Ming. He had his first instruction in harmony with Nadia Boulanger and studied from 1958 to 1963 at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and Billy Jim Layton. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1960. In 1961 at the Darmstadt Vacation Courses he studied with Luigi Nono. He then studied in Europe with Pierre Boulez, Herbert Eimert, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Between 1966 and 1968 he worked at the studio for electronic music of the Cologne Hochschule für Musik. From 1968 he directed the electronic studio of New York University. Starting in 1970 he taught composition and electronic music at the School of Music-California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He has been involved with the development of synthesizers such as the Serge Modular and founded the company Serge Modular Music Systems. After selling this company in 1986 he returned to France. He has composed works for tape and electronic instruments, multimedia works, chamber music, a Kaddish for speakers and chamber ensemble (1962, on a text of Allen Ginsberg) as well as pieces for saxophone and for piano."

Update 2 via Tiptop Audio on Muff's: "Ok fellows, I don't have any front panels to show you yet, but i can share some of the progress we've made on this project:

I have been talking to Serge for sometime now about making the Serge system in eurorack. It all started when I introduce him to our Stackcables, he loved it and said that very few people are aware of how shielded patchcords would enhance modules such as the Serge VCFs, VCAs, Ring Mod, which are already ultra low noise. He continued by saying that with shielded patchords, the modules will
attain studio quality performance. I guess that from that point it was obvious, we are going to start a new Serge system in the best format in town, eurocrack.

So this is how it's going to work, all modules will be:

1. Original Serge designs

2. Serge color coded jacks

3. Serge original fonts and graphics, work flow

Or in other words; the whole Serge experience.

Those who have/had a Serge know what i'm talking about.

For starters, we are looking at making the Smooth and Stepped Generator (SSG) with added randomization, the Dual Slope Generator (DUSG) and the Wilson Analog Delay (WAD).

The fact that we are going to design all these from scratch give us the option to add features, but it is totally up to Serge to decide that. It is going to be his system and his ideas.

On the WAD we are working directly with Dave Wilson and hopefully we could figure out how to implement it with available parts.

The whole thing takes a very long time; Serge is a busy man so please be patient. I'm sure it is going to be worth the wait. It's a great joy seeing Serge drawing schematics again, and I will do my best to make it available for all of us to use."

Buchla Documentary by Connie Field Now on Kikstarter

Follow-up to this previous post. via Kickstarter:

"With a passion for music and engineering, Don Buchla created electronic musical instruments the world had never dreamed of before.

When we've told people that we're preparing a documentary about Don Buchla, we get one of two reactions:

a) Wow! It's about time The man's a genius! Why hasn't this happened already?

or

b) Don who?

We want to make a movie that can live up to the expectations and desires and hopes for the people who answered a), and that can introduce Don in the best way possible to those who answered b).

Don Buchla is a legendary instrument maker whose inventions were part of the greatest musical transformation of the 20th century. His pioneering work laid the basis for what electronic music was to become by creating a unique analog synthesizer which completely changed the way people think about, compose, and perform music. The list of musicians and composers who have used the Buchla range from avant-garde composer Morton Subotnick to Nine Inch Nails, with plenty more along the way. Don hasn't stopped inventing since the arrival of the Buchla, and his other instruments combine an idiosyncratic sound with a sense of wonder and theatrical magic.

"Music is a mirror that we hold up to see how cultural structures are formed. Race, social hierarchy, class, national origin the twentieth century saw a questioning of these issues on a global level, and in a sense, electronic music was the soundtrack to that intense investigation into the human situation. Almost all traditional notions of space, time, and physicality have been reconfigured in ways that we are just beginning to understand. I think that electronic music has helped us understand the process we've lived through. Think about everything from the tones you hear coming out of your telephone to the frequencies underlying cellular communication to the algorithms used to route the information holding it all together -- most of this stuff has been explored one way or the other by the avant-garde."
--Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)

Don was definitely part of the avant-garde. He has been called a mad scientist, a genius, an innovator, a recluse, an iconoclast, and has gathered a horde of fiercely loyal admirers by following his own visionary path, and dancing to his own muse. His name and instruments are known from Indonesia to France.

We have begun to film because there have been performances and interviews to capture that we simply couldn't pass up, such as Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender from the San Francisco Tape Music Center, who commissioned Don to build the first Buchla; French composers Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Marc Battier; and performances by Subotnick and Marimba Lumina player Joel Davel, who has assisted in Buchla's workshop for over a decade.

But now we need to raise production funding to complete the rest of our filming. Among the other people we will be including in the film are early Buchla composer/performer Suzanne Ciani, analog synth performer/music journalist Gino Robair, Lightning virtuoso Forrest Tobey, synth maestro Alessandro Cortini (of Nine Inch Nails and Sonoio), Marimba Lumina co-designer Mark Goldstein, and, of course, Don himself. Ideally, we're hoping you can support us beyond what we're asking for here so we can also edit and do post-production for the film.

With your help, we will be able to do the legacy of Don Buchla justice."

Lunchbox Sampler

Published on Mar 5, 2013 donaldjasoncrunk·21 videos

"Some patches i recorded using the Lunchbox Easel. check out the previous video [posted here] for a guided tour of the instrument. what you're hearing is the lunchbox, a Boss DD5 and Akai Headrush, and a lil vox. enjoy the excellent timpani sound i happen across by accident!

if you're looking for dry demos, check out the 2 tracks on my soundcloud named 'BRECK' and 'ENRIDGE' . life's too short not to loop.

Please remember to visit www.kamagraphrecords.com and check out my new album 'Yankee Notch'. available on digital or cassette!"

via Jason Degelman on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Daft Punk SNL ad [03-03-13] completed live version

Published on Mar 5, 2013

"Live recording from a studio somwhere in France"

via Maxime Fabre on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:
"analog fun with the daft punk ad turning it to a full song / live jam :
tr909 playing the beat, sp1200 the sliced/chopped sample of daft punk (sequenced with an octatrack), model 101 the synth line at the end (sequenced by the mfb urzwerg pro mk2) filters used are a xone vf1 and the infamous mutronics mutator ;)"

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eDrops House

Published on Mar 5, 2013
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"If you've visited our site for a while, (or other great websites!:-)), you certainly already know the eDrops Apps. This week, 3 new eDrops Apps have been released: eDrops House, eDrops Dubstep and eDrops Minimal. This last one is for Free... For those who don't know the purpose of the eDrops Apps, let me explain... At the top of the screen, a (rain)drop will fall... Place an instrument (6 are available in this new App) under a drop to play a sound. After, you will be able to add Modifiers (Mute, Alternator, Duplicator,...) and more instruments... I really love the eDrops Apps, not just for fun, but much more... Note, that these new Apps come with less options compared to the eDrops Classic (more instruments are available, and a community...). For this reason only, I will rate eDrops House and Dubstep as Super Apps, even if they are 2 Killer Apps..."

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