BENT Wire Interactive Sound Installation

BENT Wire Interactive Sound Installation from James Thornton on Vimeo.

"This is an interactive sound installation that I created in a class called Mediatecture at Art Center College of Design. The class is instructed by Miles Mazzie who is an incredible teacher, with the assistance of Ivan Cruz who is brilliant in motion design and in Processing.
This installation is an extension of an identity I created for an organization called BENT, who would support circuit bending as an art and music form.
Music is Tristan Corbière by Cold Cave.
Wire concept inspired by David Scott Stone's long thin wire."

Original Synthesizer Literature Almost Lost - Aries, Moog, EMS & More

Full flickr set By jimmy now lives in sun city here. Pictured above is The Aries, below an article by Alfred Mayer on the then new EMS VCS3.

"these old synth ad's, and papers were found in a box headed for the dump.... the guy was a major DIY'r he had boxes full of projects and tons of DIY magazine articles. it's amazing what people hold on to..."

via Tim Durland on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Update: it looks like I posted this one back in 2010. It never get's old! :)

Rainbow KORG MicroStation Tomyumkung Thai Edition with Iron Man Joystick

รีวิว คีย์บอร์ดช่างรินทร์

Published on Feb 16, 2013 Nantakom Paobunjin·16 videos

"เป็นเครื่องดนตรีคีย์บอร์ดที่ถูกปรับแต่งด­ัดแปลงเสริมอุปกรณ์ต่างๆลงไปเพื่อการใช้งา­นที่สะดวกขึ้น โดยช่างรินทร์ พหลโยธิน5 รีวิวโดยเชฟเปา จากเวป thesoundchefและ เวป naturehomemusic
แนะนำติชมกันได้ ขอบคุณครับ"

Close-ups and details in English:

KORG MICROSTATION " TOMYUMKUNG " EDITION , THAILAND
Published on Feb 16, 2013

"Korg microstation " Tomyumkung " Edition by Rin service from Bangkok Thailand"

Sony MP3 Portable Player
IronMan Bender Joystick
Vintage Moog Style Knobs
Colder LED Buttons
New LCD Display
Rainbow & Silver Keys
Onboard Stereo Speakers & Power Supply
Wood Side Panels
3M Carbon Fiber Texture Sticker Panel

Contender for best post title of the year.

This one in via Jared

รีิวิว KORG MICROSTATION โดย เชฟเปา 2/2

trogotronic - A Perilous Experiment

Published on Apr 30, 2013 trogotronic·9 videos

"Something Wicked This Way Hums: after more than a half decade of R&D the intrepid Professor Rube & his trusty Lab Assistant Eyesly Dickenson risk life and limb to bring the Model 669/Warthog from the laboratory to production."

New LM-1 MIDI Kit Now Available from Kenton

via Kenton: "This retrofit kit for the Linn LM-1 rev 1 adds the following MIDI control:

For incoming MIDI:
Any MIDI channel can be selected (default 10)
MIDI clock / stop / start
Sounds - any sound can be mapped to any MIDI note number (defaults 36-46)
Velocity control of note volume (2 levels) for Bass, Snare, Hihat, Tamb & Cabasa only
Other sounds are one level.
For outgoing MIDI:
Any MIDI channel can be selected (default 10)
MIDI clock / stop / start
Sounds generate MIDI notes according to the mapping table (defaults 36-46)
Notes generated are given velocity 64 or 127 for low and high volume notes respectively
Hardware:
MIDI In, Out & Thru sockets
Push button (for programming the MIDI setup)
Setups are stored in non-volatile memory (Eeprom)

The kit comprises the following items:
Circuit board - fits inside the LM-1
Small pack - contains DIN sockets and mounting hardware
Large pack - contains cable assemblies
User instructions - How to change from default settings and general instructions
Fitting instructions - step by step fitting guide plus diagrams of where to connect what

All kits are fully checked and tested before despatch
Note: Our kits are not intended for installation by the end user.
They should always be fitted by an experienced synth engineer."

via Rod MacQuarrie on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

KORG monotribe - ふじの山 / BakaOscillator

Published on Apr 30, 2013 BakaOscillator·64 videos

"Use, KORG monotribe X8, KP3."

Monotribes on eBay

Yamaha Qx-1: record/playback mode

Published on Apr 30, 2013 TheSynthFreq·196 videos

"Hi! Here's the retro and awesome Yamaha Qx-1 in record/playback mode. I have it controlling three synths. The Roland D-50, Juno-1 which are both mono-timbral through midi and the E-MU emax SE with original new drum sounds I created by sampling the Roland JV-1080. I was going for the massive 80s drum sounds.
Please pardon the poor audio, this was recording on an iPhone so you can hear the disk drive and the qx-1 in studio setting and not direct connect."

Yamaha QX-1s on eBay

Euclid's Gear Box

Published on Apr 30, 2013 davidryle·108 videos

"A quick patch project based on some Euclidean Rhythm ideas recently discussed on the Muffwiggler's Forum. Since I don't own a single module like the COTK C969 Eclidean Bi-Clock Sequencer, I decided to rig up my modular to impersonate the general idea.

Patch details include...
The kick drum, snare and bass line are using variations on 16 beat patterns. The other two elements are 12 beat with 2 fills and 11 beats with 4 fills respectively.

The patterns are as follows...

kick = 16 beat 7 fill
snare = 16 beat 6 fill
bass = 16 beat 4 fill
RM voice = 12 beat 2 fill
second voice = 11 beat 4 fill

The 20Objects.com Ardcore 001 & Ox are handling the 16 beat patterns with the AC14 Gate Sequence sketch.
The Synthesizers.com Q960 Sequential Controller is generating the main clock and the 12 beat pattern with 2 rows of six beats and the first beat output.
The Q119 Sequential Controller is handling the 11 beat pattern by using the voltage output as a gate.
The STG Soundlabs VMS is sending pitch voltages to the 12 beat pattern's VCO's (ring modulated voice).

The Sputnik WCRS is generating quantized random pitch voltages to the 11 beat voice.
All pitch voltages are quantized through the dual Q171 quantizers from synthesizers.com.
The bass line pitch voltage is using a slow square wave LFO through a Q125 signal processor and a channel of a Q171 quantizer for a shifting 2 pitch pattern.
The kick drum is a Polivoks Filter resonance. The snare is white noise through an Oakley Diode Ladder Steep and mixed with the enveloped white noise then a touch of room reverb from a Strymon Blue Sky reverb.

The patterns were first realized using Wouter Hisschemöller's "Euclidean Rhythms Generator" java script. See: www hisschemoller dot com for further info."

Buchla 100 259 Sequence Jam

Published on Apr 30, 2013 djangosfire·105 videos

"Just trying out a simple sequencer patch on my Buchla this afternoon.

Patch features a 259 and "retro 158" into a 111 Ring Modulator. 165 provides random timbre and pitch modulations. Reverb is from the 190.

Audio is direct out of the Buchla - no processing at all."

no coast ~ uncertainty ~ N. €. W. S.

Published on Apr 30, 2013

Moog quad freqbox & Buchla System # 1
freq's cv by MP 201 4 x Random
freq's to Low Pass Gate
261e to Moog B Murf
cv mixer: CP251 & VX 351
diy Format Jumper
Yamaha MCS 2 for 281e A / D controll
Lexicon PCM 80 / 90
Kenton Pro Solo mk 2 for B murf Trigger
Boss LS 2
BSS DPR 402
Rane SM 26 Splittermixer
Mackie Mixer