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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Buchla Integration

YouTube via thedeepelement | January 30, 2011 |

http://trashaudio.com/2011/01/buchla-...
"Euro
Oscillators: Cwejman VM-1, Harvestman Piston Honda, Tip Top Audio Z3000, Wiard Anti-Oscillator.
Sequencers: Tip Top Audio Z8000 Matrix Sequencer, STG Graphic Sequencer, Doepfer A-155/A-154 Combo
Filter: Tip Top Audio Z2040
Delay: Tip Top Audio Z5000, Doepfer A-188-2 BBD
Clock: Make Noise Wogglebug, 4MS Rotating Clock Divider and Rotating Clock Divider Breakout

Buchla
Oscillators: Complex Waveform Generator 261e, Twisted Waveform Generator 259e
Sequencer: Dual Arbitrary Function Generator 250
Filter: Triple Morphing FIlter 291e, Quad Dynamics Manager 292e"

Spinning Whhhheeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

YouTube via Allerian1 | January 30, 2011 |

"Here I use the Elektron Octatrack to explore an old favorite. You'll notice I use two scenes. One for basic time stretching and the other for entering and sculpting the timescape. That last sentence really should have ended, "sculpting the timescape, man"."

Pea Hicks 1

YouTube via MellotronMovie | January 30, 2011 |

follow-up to this post

Stockhausen: "Telemusik"

YouTube via NewMusicXX | January 26, 2011 |

"Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Telemusik" (1966) Electronic music.
Sources for information contained in the annotations to this video: "Stockhausen, A Biography" by Michael Kurtz, "Stockhausen, Life and Work" by Karl H. Wörner, "The Works of Stockhausen" by Robin Maconie, "Towards a Cosmic Music" by Karlheinz Stockhausen"

New Chordboard STAC: Studio Version

YouTube via chordboard | December 23, 2010 |

"http://www.chordboard.com official site, purchase options
The Chordboard STAC Symphonic is a MIDI Controller and new musical instrument with a very short learning curve. It places millions of different chord voicing combinations into the hands of musicians at all levels of play.
The STAC Symphonic is an Idea Mill, music just happens, in a new and unexpected way. It sounds different, it is different, and this is because notes and chords are being voiced in new ways never before heard. It's symphonic voicing of chords, with Harmonic Quantizing. Try a new patch, pick a key signature, and begin to create a new song using Nashville Notation. It's that good.
STAC Lays Golden Eggs! Imagine writing 20 songs a week, and picking and choosing from 1000 new songs in a year. STAC Simplifies and is Less Stressful. Composers and Producers speak of "racking their brains." Imagine eliminating that part of the process, and enjoying composing / producing with a musical tool / instrument that extends your creativity.
The Learning Curve is Short. 15 hours is all you need. Our tests and videos show amateur musicians going from novice to respectable in just 15 hours. Expert musicians only need a few hours to experience the creative magic.
It is analogous to doing for piano keyboards what the mouse did for the personal computer. it takes it to the next level, much faster."

Sequetron MkII Sweep demo with Supernova patches

YouTube via philtipping | January 30, 2011 |

"Sweep command operating on the program/patch-change number of a single-note sequence.
All commands entered in real-time via the music keyboard; no mouse or PC keyboard used.
Full info & downloads at www.philizound.co.uk"

Din Sync OSC303 Shipping

via Din Sync

"The first units are now shipping, if you are on the waiting list and you didn't receive a notification email you should be getting one within a few days (if not already)."

Buchla 296e

YouTube via cray56 | January 30, 2011 |

small Buchla tribe

iMKS-80

YouTube via iControlMIDI | January 30, 2011 |

"iControlMIDI.
Plug & Play iPad Editors for Vintage & Software synths.
iMKS-80 for Roland MKS-80.
Site: http://www.icontrolmididesign.com/
App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/imks-80/i..."

iPad prices on eBay

Ambience ala LFO

YouTube via deadlover73 | January 29, 2011 |

"Heres a one oscillator patch with the Piston Honda

Synth.com / MOTM modules create most of the modulation sources, 3 LFOS in total.

Also used: S&H, wogglebug , Maths , doepfer 156 quantizer and 132 vca

MFOS sequencer and RCD providing clocking...

Aceess Virus Snow is used for delay and reverb"

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

YouTube via vintjoe | January 30, 2011

via this auction

Prophet 5 Rev. 3 #1704

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Ultra rare RED Yamaha CS 01

via this auction

White Crumar Bit 99 Analogue Hybrid

via this auction

Octave Cat vintage analog synth synthesizer

via this auction

"This is an original Cat and not the Cat SRM or the Cat SRM II... The rear connectors are external audio input; glide switch (for a footswitch, not included); pedals to VCF and VCO1 (pedals not included); series patch to slave and from master; and audio out low/high..."

Quad Nand Mood Cube Oscillator synth

via this auction
"An ambient light source and square-wave nosie maker.

The synth is based around a 4093 quad nand gate CMOS chip.
Capable of hideously beautiful beepy noise.
The 4 cascaded oscillators interact with each other to create a relentless range of synth tones.
The power starve dial adds further modulation and manipulation of the oscillations.

The noise-making circuit is built into a Mood Cube I got from RED5.
The Mood Cube lights up using 3 LEDs. I hacked the circuit to affect the rate of the light cycle.
I also added a voltage starve for this circuit too. The reason being this; when the LEDs are on full power,
they drain power from the 4093. This in turn adds further lovely modulation to the tones.

The controls are as follows:
* 4 dials on top to control the rate and tone of the oscillations.
* 1 dial on the left side for the 4093 power starve.
* 2 dials on the right side. 1 for LED rate and 1 for LED intensity.
* 2 switches on the front. 1 momentary push button and 1 toggle switch.
* 1 output jack located on the back side.
* 1 on/off switch and 9v battery holder on the underside of the cube.

The cube fits well into the palm and can be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for harsh, grinding noise terrorism and pretty colours.
It's powered by a single 9v battery which is housed in the bottom of the cube.
There's a 6.35mm jack socket for hooking up to your amp/mixer/effects.
There's no internal speaker!"

Mood Cube Quad Nand Synth

YouTube via TheZombiest | January 27, 2011 |

"A 4093 quad nand synth built into a mood cube from Red5.
The 4093 is 4 cascaded oscillators. It has a voltage starve dial with an LDR in parrallel so the LEDs of the mood cube will modulate the oscillations. I didn't expect when I first made the circuit that the mood cube LED circuit would affect the 4093, but it does. I added a voltage starve to the LEDs and a cycle rate dial."

Big Bass & Glitch

YouTube via humankoala | January 30, 2011 |

"A bass sequence with the usual suspects and heavily processed by tyme sefari
recorded in ableton live with a little ping pong delay, reverb and heavily compressed by Rough Rider from audiodamage

2 voice of the harvestman hertz donut in sin mode crossfaded in lopass filter mode by qmmg ,pitch controlled by woggle out of wogglebug, amplitude controlled by maths and wogglebug in max/min a172, wavefolded by the stg modulated by lfo a147, filtered by borg 1, first out in tyme sefari where the end loop is modulated by the lfo, dir/record/played switched by a169 clocked by zorlon cannon (wogglebug too ) , feedback from delay out to in 2 of borg1 switched with antioscillator etc ...

Enjoy !!

HK"

Software Klee Sequencer - sync with Ableton Live

YouTube via dnigrin | January 30, 2011 |

"Just a quick how to video to show how you can sync the start/stop and tempo between Ableton Live and the Software Klee Sequencer."

Vulcan Harp & Theremin - #2

YouTube via copperleaves | January 30, 2011 |

"This composition is called THE FIRE PLAINS and it is the second in a series of 12 studies for the Vulcan harp and theremin. The Vulcan harp was introduced by artist and visionary Wah Ming Chang more than 40 years ago for a STAR TREK episode. Over the years it has evolved considerably, along with the technology involved with its manufacture. It is acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic (it is the electronic component that permits such things as the playing of complex harmonies, glide pitch shifts, arpeggiation, etc.).

This piece is a study for the use of the gated arpeggiator. Before starting to play, I tapped two bars on the "tapper control" in the tempo I wanted the arpeggiator to engage in the second half of the composition (two bars instructs the instrument to play sixteenth notes - one bar would have told it to play eighth notes). Once the pattern is entered, all the harpist has to do is touch the tapper to engage it and apply it to the chords that are struck. From that point on, it is activated or deactivated alternately by touch until it is cancelled.

This instrument is a prototype. It is entirely self-contained and it is not MIDI capable. It has 15 banks of its own sounds, and each bank has 10 programs. The instrument is also provided with its own effects, timbre controls, etc. It is not mechanically activated like a keyboard. It triggers its sounds by means of the frequencies that the strings are tuned to, so it must be very accurately tuned prior to playing. It transmits directly to its amplifier by means of an antenna integrated into the pin column (the extended curved vertical arm that holds the tuning pins) so there are no cables.

This performance was recorded in a single take because it was too tricky to try and piece it together with only one video camera. Once the track was complete, I overdubbed the theremin part using the Samuel Hoffman 1929 RCA theremin. I didn't bother to show myself playing the theremin because there are already quite a few videos here on YT of me playing theremins of different sorts. The Vulcan harp, on the other hand, is rare. There are only two instruments in the world like the one you see in this video."

RIP Milton Babbitt

Milton Babbitt passed away yesterday January 29, 2011. He was 94 years old. Via Wikipedia:

"Babbitt later became interested in electronic music. He was hired by RCA as consultant composer to work with their RCA Mark II Synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (known since 1996 as the Columbia University Computer Music Center), and in 1961 produced his Composition for Synthesizer. Babbitt was less interested in producing new timbres than in the rhythmic precision he could achieve using the Mark II synthesizer, a degree of precision previously unobtainable in live performances (Barkin & Brody 2001).

Babbitt continued to write both electronic music and music for conventional musical instruments, often combining the two. Philomel (1964), for example, was written for soprano and a synthesized accompaniment (including the recorded and manipulated voice of Bethany Beardslee, for whom the piece was composed) stored on magnetic tape."

Babbitt: "Occasional Variations"

YouTube via NewMusicXX | October 24, 2008 |
Re-Published on Sep 15, 2009 Karin Schneider

"Milton Babbitt: "Occasional Variations"
Realized on the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer, 1968-1971"

image via Perfect Sound Forever

Update:

RCA Synthesizer comes in at 12:51. Do watch up to it. Only calling it out so you know when it comes in.
Full article on NPR

Update:

Milton Babbitt on Electronic Music

YouTube via echasalow | January 29, 2011 |

"1997, from the Video Archive of Electroacoustic Music. Barbara Cassidy and Eric Chasalow curators.

more videos at:

http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_2...

copyright 1997 Eric Chasalow, all rights reserved"

Update:

milton babbitt- vision and prayer

"NewMusicXX | February 02, 2011 | 3 likes, 0 dislikes
Re-Published on May 25, 2015 Joe

Milton Babbitt: "Vision and Prayer"(1961) for soprano and synthesized tape. Bethany Beardslee, soprano. The text and title are from a 1945 poem by Dylan Thomas, the first section of which reads: Who Are you Who is born
In the next room So loud to my own That I can hear the womb Opening and the dark run Over the ghost and the dropped son Behind the wall thin as a wren's bone? In the birth bloody room unknown To the burn and turn of time And the heart print of man Bows no baptism
But dark alone Blessing on The wild Child.

Theme For The Airtight Garage - Cary Grace - Buchla 200

YouTube via Door13Music | January 30, 2011 |

"Cary Grace performs an impromptu improvisation on the Buchla 200 Series Electric Music Box, while taking a break from hand-crafting Wiard 300 Series Modules. Programming assistance provided by Michael Murphy of Modern Implement Company. - The Airtight Garage: http://www.fromefm.co.uk/profile.php?..."

genoQs Machines GmbH Shuts it's Doors

via the genoQs news letter:

"Dear all,

With the recent publication of the closing of genoQs Machines GmbH by regular legal procedure, we are issuing a long overdue message to give you a realistic outlook for the future. We also want to contain the spread of inaccurate information about the circumstances, and share our view of things.

Please refer to the link below.
http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=70

Thank you,

Gabriel"

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The Squarewave Parade TSP CAS pedal voltage controlled by Frostwave processing Roland R-70 beat

YouTube via thetonewrecker | January 30, 2011 |

"Simple R-70 drum beat is fed into TSP CAS pedal.
Control Voltages from Frostwave sequencer are being fed into pedal.
Top row of sliders is routed to repeat rate.
Bottom row of sliders is routed to gate input for triggering the pedal rather than use the gate outputs matched for the upper row of the sequencer (just for this example).
Other random sounds that come in occasionally are from the grey Zoom beatbox, Acidlab Bassline 2, and Bugbrand Modular that are feeding a mixer off screen.

Sound quality is so-so from camera, but you get the idea."

1973 buchla video art1.m4v

YouTube via zackdagoba | January 30, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"stephen beck and warner jepson performance from 1973. using an analog video synth and the buchla music synth. see the whole film on ubuweb: http://www.ubu.com/film/beck_illumina... also see http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com for more"

Sound in Motion - all about the Hartmann Neuron Synthesizer

YouTube via erasemusic | January 30, 2011 |

"this was the promotional DVD produced in 2004 for the Neuron."

Update: Waldorf Wave in the background at 6:54. Caught by UniQue Werkx & Adrien in the comments.

foo-yc20 - YC-20 organ emulation

"The YC-20 is a divide-down combo organ designed in the late 60's. This emulation faithfully copies the features, sounds and flaws of the original organ.

Features:
* Physical modelling, no polyphony restrictions
* 61 keys
* Two main voice sections
* Switchable bass section
* A realism control to add flaws found in the real organ "

Ohnoho's B.B.S. - Bleet Box System

YouTube via fucdemas | December 09, 2010 |

"Ohnoho's B.B.S is a monosynth bleep, bloop, bleet and thrrruurrphhhfft box.

It's got:

2x ATE-bit CPUs - oscillators creating a single squarewave output
Turbo Modem - an LFO that can tweak either CPU. selectable via toggle switch
CHP/SPW toggle - this switches the output to always on or always off
Play button - in CHP mode it will mute the output when pressed. in SPW mode it will output sound.

It's both a really cool noise maker but a very playable instrument. Plus it makes really fat bass sounds.

buy at Ohnoho.com"

Tegan & Sarah - Moog Prodigy

via jake via tumblr

Curetronic Analog Modular Synthesizer

YouTube via kasimir23 | August 31, 2007 |

LeafAudio_DIY_Synthmodul_Lötworkshop_Teil1

YouTube via MikeErkau | February 15, 2010 |

LeafAudio_DIY_Synthmodul_Lötworkshop_Teil2

curetronic videos by MikeErkau

YouTube via MikeErkau | May 07, 2009 |

"demo, wokshop und session des curetronic modularsystems am 25.4.2009 im Dresdner "OSTPOL". Kamera/Schnitt/pp: Mike Erkau www.curetronic.com www.subroom.com www.light-pollution.de
Die Klangwabe ist nach ca. 3 Minuten zu sehen!"

Playlist:
curetronic Klangwabe@ostpol
curetronic meets xabec@ostpol
curetronic@ostpol1
curetronic@ostpol2

curetronic jamsession part 1

YouTube via therealtrouby | May 04, 2009 |

"im ostpol dresden - 25.4.09
my version of some curetronic kits :)"

curetronic jam session part 2

therealtrouby | May 04, 2009 |

"ostpol dresden - 25.4.09"

8 bar trigger sequencer

YouTube via therealtrouby | November 27, 2009 |

"own developement and unikat. triggers the bass drum."

Vermona Ionika 6 Demos by therealtrouby

YouTube via therealtrouby

Playlist:
vermona ionika 6 demo
vermona ionika 6 - chorus demo
trouby - silky strings part 'x'
jean michel jarre - oxygene 13

Lambda String Synth Videos by therealtrouby

YouTube via therealtrouby
Features the Roland Rhythm 77 TR-77 & Curetronic modular
Playlist:
lambda - hold on tight - nalin kane trouby rmx 2010
trouby - music for more muscles part 1
trouby - music for more muscles part 2
trouby - silky strings medley
vintage live demo
kitaro / trouby - silk road
trouby - fis minor medley
trouby - silky strings live medley
trouby - silky strings part 6 special
trouby - silky strings part 12
trouby - silky strings part 9

trouby modular demo

YouTube via therealtrouby | January 19, 2011 |

"trouby-modular.com - own device resting on a drumbox including 17 tone generators..."

Potty Synths

Circuit Bent Fart Box by freeform delusion

YouTube via eecouk | January 30, 2011 |

"Fart Box
Switched Mono mini jack output
Yellow LED
Pitch Up/Down Control
Switch to Choose Potentiometer or LDR
Switchable Pitch Up/Down LDR (photocell)
Only a two minute video, i didn't want to do anything long winded :-p"

You might want to burn your retina's out watching the beginning of the next video. If you want to play it safe, position your mouse over the play button, close your eyes, hit play and don't open them until you hear the sequence begin.

Modular Arse Pt 10

YouTube via ThePurityControl | January 30, 2011 |

"A bit of complex sequencing, the A155 is being used to produce odd and even clock divisions (/2 and /3) which are routed into an A150 Voltage Control Switch, one row of the Analogue Systems TH48 sequencer is modding this to change it's own clock source.

One row of the TH48 is controlling osc pitch and the 3rd row is gating the main VCA to mute any residual sound on empty steps, as depending on the clock speed the envelope on the bass sound may not have finished. The bass is triggered from the trig row on this sequencer.

The /2 division from the A155 is triggering the bloopy sound, which is white noise through the A124 'wasp' filter, and an addition division /6 is fed into the A160 clock divider to trigger the pink/red noise ever 12 clock pulses."

Roland MC-202 MicroComposer Analog Synth in Box

via this auction

Roland TR505 TR-505 Drum machine synth book

via this auction

"A must for any TR505 owner. This is a 3rd party book, written as a compliment to the owners manual. Published in the US by Hal Leonard Publishing and author credits to Terry Fryer, this is a particularly rare find. Go for it."

vintage 80s DK Synergy synth cartridge

via this auction and this auction

"Vcart4 V.1
BABEX PIANO11 CLAVNET5 CX3 JRASP3A VIBRAPHO NASALFUZ POLY1A HORNSX STRING STG3A SYMPH8A
PIANBRAS JRHO Q HARPSCD QUOIR BASS LINDA5 JA6 FLUTE FRENCH HONKER WARP4"

"Vcart 2
BASSY PIANK CLAVNETT JAZORG1D TIBIA2 TIBIA3 JA5 MELOHRN2 SYMPH6A GUITAR2A MEDCO1 SITAR
KIT11 SST HANDS COWBELL JAWBONE BUBBLE92 JA6 TCHTREM4 SYMPH6 MARIMBA2 TARP SITDRONE"

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Fender CHROMA POLARIS Vintage Analog Synth

via this auction

serial # 300955

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Vintage E-MU Drumulator

via this auction

"1980's E - MU Systems Drum Ulator model 7000 MIDI drum / drums synthesizer machine. It's made in the USA in Santa Cruz, California... The unit measures 15" X 13" X 5"..."

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Roland SBX-80 Sync Box and MSQ-700 Sequencer

via this auction
via the description:
"Roland SBX-80 Sync Box as well as a Roland MSQ-700. Terrific vintage relics from our musical past. The Sync Box offers many options for sending and receiving different beat sources. I purchased this piece originally to (DIN)sync a TR-808 and/or Roland CR-8000 Drum machines with a tap tempo. This also works well to tap tempo for arpeggiators inputs on any period synth (Jupiter 4, 6, 8, Juno-60, Korg Mono/Poly etc...). I am including a DIN/SYNC cable with this particular piece (looks like a MIDI cable but pin-configured differently). Also included is a Roland MSQ-700."

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