Modal Electronics CRAFTsynth 2.0 Sounds SuperBooth 2019

Published on May 17, 2019 Perfect Circuit

"Modal Electronics showed us some of the preset sounds from their new CRAFTsynth 2.0. There is an accompanying app where you can see all of the settings and waveshapes as they change in real time."

Sequential / DSI Pro 2 Discontinued

via @sequential_llc

"THE WORLDS'S DEEPEST MONOSYNTH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING"

The end of a classic, legendary, modern, mono/paraphonic synth. This is going to be one of those "synths that got away" for many.

This one was spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

Beats and Bytes // Launchkey for FL Studio // 16 May 2019 4PM PST

Published on May 17, 2019 NovationTV

"Take control of your productions as we show you how to get the Novation Launchkey setup with FL Studio and show you some tips along the way."

Magnetic Summer Arp2500

Published on May 17, 2019 David Baron

"Magnetic Summer is a composition for the Arp 2500. All sounds were from the Arp. Processing is EMT 240 Plate, Roland Space Echo, MXR Flanger/Doubler. The Arp 2500 was created in a laboratory in Massachusetts fifty years ago."

vpme QD Quad Drum Voice Sound Demo (No Talking)

Published on May 17, 2019 Bonedo Synthesizers

Eurorack precision CEM3340 oscillator prototype: VCO-81 :Visiting The Upstairs Room

Published on May 17, 2019 Vintage Synthlab

"Eurorack VCO-81 prototype 12hp CEM3340 (2 x VCOs) visiting a piece of The Cure's The Upstairs Room."

Dreadbox Nyx mkII Hands-On Demo

Published on May 17, 2019 Synthtopia

"At Superbooth 2019, Dreadox introduced the Nyx mkII - an updated version of their paraphonic synthesizer that adds modular patch points and more."

Medusa Synthesizer v2 Hands-On Demo

Published on May 17, 2019 Synthtopia

"At Superbooth 2019, Polyend showed a major update to its Medusa synthesizer, created in collaboration with Dreadbox.

We talked with Polyend founder Piotr Raczynski, who gave us a hands-on demo of the new features."

Soundmachines EuroTouch Modules Hands-On Demo

Published on May 17, 2019 Synthtopia

"At Superbooth 2019, we talked with Soundmachine's Davide Mancini, who showed us their new 'EuroTouch' series of Eurorack modules."

The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music #7 w/ Delia Derbyshire Collaborator David Vorhaus

David Vorhaus Analogue Electronic Music 1979 Published on Sep 13, 2009 JeffreyPlaide

Update: Festival info further below. Thought I would start with a couple of videos featuring David Vorhaus.

"In this historical video excerpt, David Vorhaus talks about two of his analogue inventions - the MANIAC analogue sequencer, and the Kaleidophon from 1979.

The MANIAC (Multiphasic Analog Inter-Active Chromataphonic (sequencer)) was an analogue sequencer having variable step lengths, and the ability to split sequences into several smaller groupings giving considerable sonic potentiality. Addition and subtraction of events was possible, as well as the possibility to chromatically correct the output during performance. David could program his MANIAC sequencer to play a background rhythm or combination of musical events, to then improvise over the top with another instrument or synthesizer.

The Kaleidophon was a double-bass-like instrument using four velocity-sensitive ribbon controllers instead of strings. The instrument is played entirely using the left hand, leaving the right hand free to manipulate the sound via a number of controllers and a joystick.

David speaks about the processes of making electronic music, and the developments that such possibilities can provide for the imaginative electronic musician. This excerpt is taken from the BBC 1979 documentary entitled "The New Sound of Music" hosted by Michael Rodd."

WHITE NOISE Electric Storm in Hell [not quite Full Album]

Published on Mar 9, 2013 musick2138

"The Seventh Wave presents

White Noise - a Fifty Years Celebration of An Electric Storm & Other Sonic Adventures

Voyd - live set / White Noise - live set / White Noise - talk and q&a

Friday 14 June 2019 Doors 6.30 pm.

Curfew 10.00 pm.

The Blue Orange Theatre, 118 Great Hampton Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham B18 6AD.

White Noise - An Electric Storm - Review

When White Noise's debut album, An Electric Storm, landed on Island Records in 1969, it must have sounded like nothing else. Packaged in a striking black and white sleeve that pictured a spark of lightning streaking across a black sky, this was an album that - quite rightly as it turned out - resembled as much a scientific experiment as any conventional musical document.

White Noise came into being when David Vorhaus, an American electronics student with a passion for experimental sound and classical music attended a lecture by Delia Derbyshire, a sound scientist at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop whose claim to fame was writing the original Doctor Who theme tune. With the help of fellow Radiophonic Workshop composer Brian Hodgeson, Vorhaus and Derbyshire hunkered down at Kaleidophon Studios in Camden to pen an album that reconciled pop music with the experimental avant-garde. The result is a set of eerie, delightful songs that, for all their surface simplicity, shimmer with vestigial synthesiser swells, strange echoes, disembodied voices, and distant music-box trills.

Outside of a few equally adventurous '60s releases - the debut album from US psychedelic pioneers The United States Of America, for instance - this is pretty much uncharted territory, particularly for a major label release. On ''My Game Of Loving'', a dozen multi-tracked voices built to a panting orgasm, while the closing ''Black Mass An Electric Storm In Hell'' ushers the record to a freeform close in a clatter of freeform drums, cavernous echo and chilling, animalistic screams. Perhaps unsurprisingly, An Electric Storm would struggle to find an audience on its release, and in the following years, great leaps in synthesiser technology somewhat diminished White Noise's experimental achievements. One thing that would remain timeless, however, were the songs themselves. An Electric Storm would later become a key inspiration on bands like Add (N) To X and Broadcast, synthesiser explorers who picked through these primitive, vestigial sound experiments, took careful notes, and eventually, set out to craft their own futuristic pop lullabies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/pq9x/

The other two dates of the festival feature:

Banco de Gaia (Toby Marks) - he will once again be accompanied by Patrick Dunn on visuals (Patrick produces visual content for Tangerine Dream!!!).

The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneers who, along with acts like Autechre, Aphex Twin, LFO et al came to define the UK techno movement in the early 1990's.

For further information email theseventhwave@btinternet.com

Tickets available at https://www.skiddle.com/groups/theseventhwave/"