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By The Edge Of A Pool

"1977 at EMSA in Florence, MA using the large EMS Vocoder sold to Stevie Wonder, some words I wrote (February 24, 1975), three MiniMoogs, a Beyer microphone, 2 Revox half-track machines, and a toilet.

By the edge of a pool,
Deep in a woods
I watch myself watching
Eyes that see back.

A nose framed by skin
Wrapped round bones
That shatter a cleavage
Shaped by waves

I touch my own fingers
Wet, warm, and dry
They pass through each other
And then return

I follow my thinking
Always behind,
Thoughts follow all circles
Folding under

Fling prayers for my soul
Upward beyond
I long for the reward
that will be mine

A pike bursts the liquid
Smooth, sleek, and cold,
swallows a water bug
Then sinks below."

Update: the story behind the track:

"By The Edge of a Pool recorded by me in 1977 at EMSA in Florence, MA using the large EMS Vocoder 5000 sold to Stevie Wonder. Words were written on 2/24/1975 shortly before I graduated NYU. Sound source was 3 tracks of MiniMoog and some running water. Prof. Everett Hafner, who owned EMSA, had no idea who Stevie was but insisted he speak with him on the phone prior to ordering from London & personally delivering to LA. During the call Everett kept calling him "Mr. Wonder" and finally asked which of the two available colour schemes he preferred: off-white or chocolate-brown. Dennis and I could hear Stevie erupt in laughter over the phone and loudly proclaim, "chocolate-brown, Man; chocolate-brown!". I can't recall anyone else ever calling Everett 'man'."

SuperBooth 2016: Patchblocks

Published on Apr 3, 2016 Synth Anatomy

"I was on SuperBooth this year for creating video content. More gear news will coming soon. Please support me on Patreon if you enjoy my content. https://www.patreon.com/synthanatomy?...

I was on the booth of Patchblocks, a young company based in Germany. Patchblocks are mini Synthesizers which can be programmed very easy with a software editor. Simple flash them and you have new machine. Here is a video about their products and their company vision."

Experimentation 11 (Korg Minilogue, Volca Series)

Published on Apr 3, 2016 Metatron's Cube

"Death of the space perpetrator
You have been chasing the same man for two weeks in the outer star clusters of the large Magellanic Cloud in deep space. Fortunately, you don't mind so much because your kids and wife at home are all brats. You send money home and they send fake love back over data transmissions. Each man you catch is worth 432,000su( spice units, the universal space monetary system). Enough to go wild every weekend and forget about everything and still send enough back home. But, being a bounty hunter is still far better than those moon mining settlements.
Just some random Minilogue/Volca action. We wanted to use sync ports over midi this time just to change it up a bit(why not?). All the talk of the new Volca FM's on the forums is growing the gear lust. We might not find one for some time though as we missed early pre-orders. Enjoy the random gritty sci-fi story(dark comedy), and the coming week everyone!
download@ https://soundcloud.com/miles-baskett/...
Gear pile:
Korg Minilogue + TC Electronics HoF reverb + Kp3
Korg Volca Keys + TC Electronics T2 reverb + Transition Delay
Korg Volca Bass + Kp2 mini
Korg Volca Sample
Zoom R24 (recording)
Presonus One (mix/master)"

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Moog Voyager + Q119 Sequencer

Published on Apr 3, 2016 PaulLawlerMusic

"Sequencing the Moog Voyager XL with the Dotcom Q119 Sequencer."

4MS DLD // Dual Looping Delay // Baseck

Published on Apr 3, 2016 baseck

"4MS DLD // Dual Looping Delay Eurorack Synthesizer Module // Baseck"

Ricochet - Tangerine Dream

Published on Apr 3, 2016 graal7

"Ricochet part 2 - Tangerine Dream
motif xs 8,moog sub37,clavia nordwave,yamaha cs15,korg electribe 2"

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DSI POLYEVOLVER PPG SOUND RECREATION

Published on Oct 20, 2015 TheXcee

"This original PPG sound was the starting point for my work on a type PPG sound for my Poly-Evolver.
Please listen to this video and check the sound results in my video
i made with my Poly-Evolver:"

THEXCEE DSI POLYEVOLVER PROGRAMS PPG STYLES / 03-2012

Published on Mar 6, 2012

"The first try whether my POLYEVOLVER (PEK/Polyevolverkeyboard) is able to emulate the famous PPG Sounds.
I made a bunch of Sounds in the PPG-Style to show the fantastic capabilities of the PEK!
The PPG-Synths, These great temples of machines, were created and bulilt of the german Wolfgang Palm about the 1980´s.
Nowadays i tried to emulate exactly this digital rough sounding wavetablesynthesizer.
Based on the PEK digital Prophet-VS wave storage and its modulationpowered signalpath the results what you hear in the movie lay in my opinion very near to the original sounding PPG.
Therefore i programmed mainly 'digital sound clouds'.
The sounds you hear were recorded only from the main out without any FX other equipments.
And sorry you´ll hear the opening part twice ;) i forgot to erease one of them ;)
well, enjoy the sounds!"

WALDORF MINIWAVE SYNTHESIZER / 2016

Published on Apr 3, 2016 TheXcee

"that´s the making of my own WALDORF 'MINIWAVE'
made out of nocost STYRODUR and hotglue.
finally a LED strip made the case for my Microwave perfect.
i promise to you, it make such a fun to create housings for our poor racksynths!
the soundtrack is from the MW-1."