Hailstorm - a modular TechnoBilly Demo

Published on Nov 23, 2015 mooguphonic

"There is a *lot* of bass in this piece; so headphones recommended.

Introducing a new form of music... TechnoBilly!... Synthesizers and banjos. Well... not really. The 'banjo' accompaniment was also synthesized.

This was an experiment sync'ing a drum machine with a Q119 Sequencer on the Synthesizers.com modular synth. Watching the blinking synthesizer can get boring, so I stitched in some video footage of a near-biblical hailstorm we had this summer. It seemed to fit."

Tim Kaiser 10-10-2015 KCK Minneapolis MN Experimental Electronic Music Live Set - Full Album

Published on Nov 24, 2015 GetLoFi

http://www.tim-kaiser.org/

Make Noise tELHARMONIC 3-Voice Shift Register

via @ControlVoltage_

"Another hidden feature unveiled in the @makenoisemusic tELHARMONIC!: 3-Voice Shift Register: http://controlvoltage.net/make-noise-telharmonic/dp/2124 …"

Mother-32 Jazz Rhodes Piano Improv (SUB 37, MAKE NOISE, 4MS, KORG SV-1)

Published on Nov 21, 2015 Noir Et Blanc Vie

"Jazz Improv with Mother-32"

RIP Dennis Colin, Co-Designer of the ARP 2600 & the Aries Modular

Some sad news in via Grant of Music Technologies Group. It has come to his attention that Dennis Colin of ARP and Aires fame has passed away. There is a GoFundMe page set up to help his daughter with the funeral and travel costs. Click through for details.

Dennis Colin not only designed the ARP 2600 with Alan R. Pearlman, he also built the Aries Modular (see this post and this post for reference), and he later ran Colin Electronics.

The image to the left is from an article in Guitar World from this year, back on February 9. The following is a short excerpt:

"The short story goes like this: Dennis spent several years at the ARP company, creating the 2600 and other strange instruments. Eventually the company changed hands and he moved on to other work away from music.

Years after retiring, Dennis now lives alone in a small house somewhere in New England. He recently lost his wife and has been having a rough time. A chance meeting between his daughter and my guitar-building buddy, Ben "C.B. Gitty" Baker, led to my eventual visit to his house. I stood on his doorstep feeling like Ralphie about to meet Santa Claus.

A frail man at 71, Dennis has sharp mind of a teenager. Although he left ARP Synthesizers many years ago, he never left music and he enthusiastically showed me his secret lab upstairs in the house. There were oscilloscopes, strange strobe lights, a homemade 500-watt amp (!) and model airplanes scattered about. The dude lights his cigarettes from a Tesla coil! When he talked about music, he referenced everything from da Vinci to string theory.

Forget Ralphie...I was in the inner-sanctum of the musical Willie Wonka!"

A great man behind some great synths. He will be remembered. Be sure to see the GoFundMe page.

Update: Memorial Service to Be Held at the MIT Chapel on Friday, December 18th at 1PM.

MOOG THE ROGUE SN 3608

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via this auction

"The Rogue Vintage Analog Synthesizer. Everything works the way it should, no issues whatsoever. The keyboard has beenprofessionaly servised, black foam removed and everything properly cleaned. All sliders has been taken a part, clean and assembled. Everything is a factory spects. Great clean synthesizer, ready to serve you for many years to come. Comes with power adapted, upgrated, because the original one known as a owerheating part."

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Vintage 1979 ROLAND SH-2 ANALOG SYNTHESIZER SN 107098

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via this auction

Always loved the waterfall keys on these.

via the seller:

"By far one of the toughest sounding bass synthesizers, with 2 VCOs and 1 massive sounding sub oscillator.
5 different wave forms, auto-bend, LFO with sine, square and sample hold.
Resonant filter, self-oscillation lowpass filter, mod by e.g, external audio in and some much more!
It has CV gate in and output.
The synth is in full working order and sounds amazing."

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Hawkeye - Hardware Synthetic (live Alesis Andromeda vs E-MU ESI 4000)

Published on Nov 23, 2015 Maelstroem3

"A new synthpop voyage featuring...

* MBSEQ V4 for live sequencing
* Alesis Andromeda (retro bass)
* Yamaha FS1r (popcorn-style lead)
* Kawai K5000r (secondary lead)
* Moog Little Phatty through Polivoks VCF (deep bass)
* E-MU ESI 4000 (sequenced drums)

...directly recorded live from the bare metal - no DAW was abused! :-)

Hope you enjoyed it!
Many greets and thanks for watching and listening!
Hawkeye/Maelstroem Records"

GEETA DAYAL "Signal and Noise: A Brief History of Electronic Music" :: watsON? NOISE 2013

Published on Jan 31, 2014 The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

Missed this one from 2014. Title of the post says it all. Fascinating bit of history that lead to our world of synthesizers. Enjoy.

You can find her website at http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com.

"Project Page :: http://watsonfestival.org/2013/geeta-...

Geeta Dayal is an arts critic and journalist who has been covering the intersections between sound, culture, and technology for a decade. She has written hundreds of articles and reviews for major publications, including Wired, Frieze, Cabinet, The Wire, The Village Voice, Bookforum, The New York Times, Print, and many more. Her first book, Another Green World, on the musician Brian Eno, was published by Continuum in 2009. Her essays appear in several anthologies on music, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford, 2013), Loops (Faber, 2009), The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (Zer0, 2009), The Pitchfork 500 (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and Marooned (Da Capo, 2007). She is a recent recipient of a major grant from Creative Capital / The Andy Warhol Foundation in the Arts Writers Program. She holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT (2001) and a master's degree from Columbia (2003). She is currently based in San Francisco, and is at work on a new book, on sound and technology in the 1950s.
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The watsON? NOISE Festival 2013 - Curated by Golan Levin and Spike Wolff
'Ancient life was all silence.... with the invention of the machine, Noise was born.' -- Luigi Russolo, 'L'Arte dei rumori'
Noise continually surrounds us, from white static to violent intensity. We are absorbed into, embraced by, and assaulted with sound. Vibrating through our bodies, we capitulate as it engulfs us and permeates our psyche. In the still of its quiet absence and the thrill of its deafening roar, the force of sound is a constant. wats:ON? 2013 explores the realm of noise through a variety of analog, digital, and apparatus enhanced sound-music performances. Noise asks you to surrender to the possibility of the rush of the sublime.
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The Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts (wats:ON?) was created to honor the life of Jill Watson, whose interest in the arts inspired others through her work and her teaching. The festival celebrates Jill's commitment to an interdisciplinary philosophy as an artist and celebrates her accomplishments and reputation as an architect. Jill Watson was a Carnegie Mellon University alumna, adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture, and acclaimed Pittsburgh architect who died in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash on July 17, 1996.
The wats:ON? Festival is made possible by the generous support of the JILL WATSON FAMILY FOUNDATION.
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This lecture is co-hosted by The wats:ON? Festival and CMU HCII Human Computer Interaction Institute, with support from :

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CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES Cover by Red Martian

Follow-up to this post. Red Martian's cover of The Cure's Charlotte Sometimes is now available as a free download on Bandcamp. Every synth sound you hear on the track is the Rev 1 Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 which featured SSM based filters vs. the CEM filters found in the later Rev 3. All drums are the Roland TR-626. For guitar and bass the track features a Rickenbacker bass and Fender Jazzmaster, which was Robert Smith's guitar of choice throughout his early career.

via @sdf_pubnix

"Red Martian - Charlotte Sometimes free download #indie #music #musicmonday"

gear used: Rickenbacker bass, Fender Jazzmaster, Prophet-5 rev 1 and TR-626.