Adebayor, por Lira

YouTube Published on Aug 7, 2012 by cultura

MATRIXSYNTH-T sighting.

"O convidado de Fernando Faro, Lira, canta ?Adebayor?, música de sua autoria, inspirada no jogador de futebol togolês Adebayor."

Googlish: "The guest of Fernando Faro, Lira sings? Adebayor? Music of his own, inspired by the Togolese footballer Emmanuel Adebayor."

The band:
Lirinha: voice and sampler
Astronauta Pinguim: Minimoog, Crumar organ, Wurlitzer 200A electronic piano and Moog theremin
Neilton Carvalho: guitar
Hugo Carranca: percussion
Angelo Medrado: percussion
Igor Medeiros: bass synthesizer

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim.

Be sure to see previous posts featuring Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauto Pinguim. You'll find a performance with Lirinha here, and interviews including Vince Clarke, Gershon Kingsley, Herb Deutsch, Jean Jacques Perrey and more.

Ah se não fosse o amor, por Lira

Published on Aug 7, 2012 by cultura

"Lirinha canta ?Ah se não fosse o Amor?, uma composição dele em parceria com Dan Maia."

Ela Vai dançar, por Lira

Published on Aug 7, 2012 by cultura

"Lira fala de sua peça de teatro ?Mercadorias e Futuro? e ainda canta ?Ela Vai dançar?, uma composição dele em parceria com Fábio Trummer, da banda Eddie."

My Life, Memória e Ducontra, por Lira

Published on Aug 7, 2012 by cultura

"Lira fala de seu filho de 9 anos, que compõe e canta, nos mostra um trecho de ?My Life? canta ?Memória? e ?Ducontra?."

MATRIXSYNTH T Spotted on TV - Lirinha with Astronauta Pinguim on Keys

AO VIVO: Lirinha no Estúdio Showlivre

YouTube Streamed live on Nov 21, 2011 by showlivre

Show starts at 6:30. I believe this is the second time MATRIXSYNTH was featured on a TV broadcast. There was one on French TV posted here. I keep hoping to find a MATRIXSYNTH card somewhere on the IT Crowd.

Fabricio Carvalho (Astronauta Pinguim) on Keys: Minimoog Model D, Roland EP30 electronic piano and a Crumar Toccata organ. Be sure to check out his Moog tattoo. Igor Medeiros on Nord Modular.

Googlish (Original description further below):
"Is the highlight Lirinha Studio Showivre (www.showivre.com) broadcast live on November 21, 2011.

Singer-songwriter presents Lirinha your disk, Lira, work that marked a new phase which now follows the artist in solo work, after more than 10 year career with Cordel do Fogo Encantado.

In Lira, the musician reinvents itself with a sound that goes through the use of guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion and drums, resulting in a surprising and innovative foray into territory that is familiar: the fine line between music and poetry. Lirinha shows his maturity as an artist and songwriter, evolves into a cohesive work, with strong influence of the references that populate his songs."

Original description:
"Lirinha é o destaque do Estudio Showivre (www.showivre.com) transmitido ao vivo no dia 21 de novembro de 2011.

Cantor e compositor Lirinha apresenta seu disco, Lira, trabalho que marca nova fase do artista que agora segue em trabalho solo, depois de mais de 10 anos de carreira com o Cordel do Fogo Encantado.

Em Lira, o músico se reinventa com uma sonoridade que passa pela utilização de guitarras, teclados, sintetizadores, percussão e bateria, resultando em uma surpreendente e inovadora incursão em território que lhe é familiar: a tênue fronteira entre a música e a poesia. Lirinha mostra seu amadurecimento como artista e letrista, evolui em um trabalho coeso, com forte influência das referências que povoam as suas canções."

Update:

Also see: dbmixtape Astronauta Pinguim via Fabricio on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:
"Hey friends, I was asked to do a mixtape to "Deep Beep" a brazilian site of electronic music, so I choose songs from some of the pioneers of everything we all like: Delia Derbishire, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, o Cluster e o Harmonia (both from Hans-joachim Roedelius), Giorgio Moroder, Harald Grosskopf, Tony Carey, Silver Apples, Conrad Schnitzler, Rüdiger Lorenz, You, Automat, The Normal e Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!! Please check it out and hope you enjoy my mixtape!!!"

Barbara Eugenia with Astronauta Pinguim

Bárbara Eugênia fala sobre seu novo trabalho - Metrópolis 04/06/2013 - Parte 1

Published on Jun 7, 2013 metropolis·5,108 videos

"É o que temos! Este é o nome do novo e segundo disco da cantora Bárbara Eugênia."

Two videos featuring Fabricio Carvalho of Astronauta Pinguim on Minimoog and Crumar Tocatta with a MATRIXSYNTH T-Shirt! The top one is on Brazilian national TV! Thank you Fabricio! :)

Barbara Eugenia Por que brigamos
Published on May 24, 2013

"Lançamento álbum "É O que Temos" - Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro"

Minimoog Meets Minimoog

Fabricio Carvalho playing his Minimoog Model D and Carlos Romero playing his Minimoog Voyager electric blue.

Click the pic for the full size shot.

Update: Fabricio will be playing at SESC Pompeia, São Paulo on September 29. It will be the official release of "Zeitgeist/propaganda." Listen below - also posted on c. The image featuring the two minis was actually taken during rehearsal for the upcoming show.


"Astronauta Pinguim's third solo album - a Pineapple Music relase!!!"

Zeitgeist/propaganda by astronautapinguim

Silver Apples - A pox on you (live at SESC Vila Mariana)

YouTube Uploaded by astronautapinguim on Feb 24, 2012 "Silver Apples playing "A pox on you", from the album "Contact" (1969) at SESC Vila Mariana on a friday, february 17th, 2012. Recorded by Ramiro Pissetti." Silver Apples - a short video of a close up on Simeon's oscillators YouTube Uploaded by astronautapinguim on Feb 25, 2012 "My friend Ramiro Pissetti had the opportunity of recording a close up on Simeon Coxe's Oscillators at SESC Vila Mariana on february 17th, 2012! Hope you enjoy!!!!" Silver Apples - a short video of a close up on Simeon's oscillators

And a pic via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on Facebook. Fabricio opened for Silver Apples at this show in São Paulo.

Astronauta Pinguim MATRIXSYNTH T Sighting on TV Cultura

via Fabricio Carvalho on Facebook

"Sabado passado, logo após a gravação do Programa Ensaio (da TV Cultura) com o Fernando Faro e a turma toda reunida!!!!"

"Last Saturday, after recording the test program (TV Cultura) with Fernando Faro and the whole gang reunited!!"

Thank you my friend!

Click here for a number of posts featuring Astronauta Pinguim including interviews with Gershon Kinglsey, Herb Deutsch, and Jean Jacques Perrey. Also see One Minute of Noise for Bob Moog by Astronauta Pinguim, Astronauta Pinguim - live at CCSP - Complete Performance, and Silver Apples - A pox on you (live at SESC Vila Mariana).

Update: pictured above: "Left to right: Astronauta Pinguim (Minimoog, Crumar organ, Wurlitzer electronic piano and theremin), Neilton Carvalho (guitar - he hand-makes his own amplifiers!!!!!!!), Fernando Faro (director of TV show Programa Ensaio), Angêlo Medrado (stand-up drums), Hugo Carranca (percussion and sampler), Igor Medeiros (Nord modular synthesizer playing the basslines) and Lirinha (compositions, voice and samplers)!!!!!"

The TV episode will be televised July 15 at 23:00 (11 p.m.) Brasilia hour. It will be reprised on the following Wednesday, July 18, at 1:00 a.m. (Brasilia hour). It will also be online on TV Cultura's site. You can click on the link 'ao vivo' to watch via the Internet. http://tvcultura.cmais.com.br/ensaio

On July 28 Astronauta Pinguim will be playing with Lirinha at Festival Musicas do Mundo, in Sines (Portugal) and also in Lisboa (Portugal) on next august 1st.

The Moog 1125 Sample & Hold

Astronauta Pinguim has a post up on the Moog 1125 Sample & Hold. You'll find additional pics, some history on the module, and instructions on how to use it (captured in the bottom pic below).

"The 1125 Sample and Hold is a device that captures the voltage range of the synthesizer, creates a pattern and repeats it constantly. The waveform (sawtooth or random) of this pattern is controlled by a slider on the left side of the 1125 -the other two sliders are a glide and the scale controla. Two knobs in the center of the equipment, one for speed (rate) and other for the sample pattern are located above three on/off switches: one to record and the other two to start and stop the sample (a red light indicates when it is working).
Five switches on the right side complete the unit: one to control the extent of sampling, two on/off switches controls the outputs of the instrument, an on/off switch controls the trigger and another controls the size (short or long) of the gate."

via Fabricio Carvalho on
The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Moog Catalogue (late 70's) and Moog Prodigy Poster

via Fabricio Carvalho on Facebook

Update via Qwave in the comments: " have a low-res scan of this Moog catalog in the german version online for 14 years. Amazing how time flies!:
http://till-kopper.de/moog.html"

An Interview with Jon Appleton - One of the Creators of the NED Synclavier

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full interview.

"APPLETON - I have the first and the second Synclavier but I don't play them. I am not sure they work. Sydney and Cameron and I developed the instrument first from something called The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer. It was my conception and their design..."

Check out the "all-star" pic below. You should recognize some of the names. Peter Zinovieff was he man behind EMS. Via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Astronauta Pinguim also brought us interviews with Vince Clark, Gershon Kingsley, Herb Deutsch, and Jean Jacques Perrey.

Remember you can find all interviews featured on the site via the Interviews label below.

An Interview with Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

You'll find the full interview on Astronauta Pinguim, including mentions of Delia Derbyshire & Daphne Oram.

BTW, today is Paddy Kingsland's birthday.  Happy Birthday Mr. Kingsland!  :)

Pictured: Paddy Kingsland and the EMS Synthi 100 (the Delaware)

"Patrick 'Paddy' Kingsland was born in Hampshire (England) on January 30th, 1947. He took piano lessons in his youth and got his first guitar when he was 15. By this time he also built his own valve amplifier and began to play in a band in his school days. After attending Eggars Grammar School in Alton, Hampshire, Paddy joined the BBC. He was a technician there until, in 1970, he had the chance to join the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the famous department that was responsible for providing the soundtrack and sound effects to BBC radio and TV shows. Paddy worked there for 11 years and created the music for many programs, including "The Changes", "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and several episodes of 'Doctor Who'!

"In 1973, BBC Records released the album 'Fourth Dimenson'. Although it was credited to The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, "Fourth Dimension" is the first solo album released by Paddy Kingsland and includes tracks that he recorded from 1970 to 1973, using mainly the EMS synthesizers VCS3 and Synthi 100 (the Delaware)..."

You can still find the release on Amazon and eBay.

The first synth to enter the BBC? "The first synthesizer arrived in 1970 - an EMS VCS3. It was great for learning about voltage control and making sounds, but no good for playing tunes on. The Arp Odyssey which came a bit later was much better for that."

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on the MATRIXSYNTH Lounge. You can find interviews with other synth legends on his site or via the Interviews label below.

An Interview with Rick Wakeman on Astronauta Pinguim

Full interview on Astronauta Pinguim

"How many Minimoog model D synthesizers did you have during all your career and how many of those Minimoogs do you still have? Can you tell us a little bit about the history of your Minimoogs?

RICK - I don't know the exact answer, but I think I have probably owned about 20 Minimoogs in my lifetime. I currently have 9. Finding good ones is extremely difficult. I have a very good man who repairs them for me and keeps them in good order. I cannot even imagine not having one. I have bought them for many different countries, and one from Switzerland which amazingly I used to own back in the early seventies!"

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

An Interview with Joel Chadabe on Astronauta Pinguim

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full interview.

"Joel Chadabe, native of New York, studied with Elliott Carter at the Yale School of Music. Following three years in Europe, he returned to New York and established an electronic music studio at the State University of New York at Albany.

In 1967, he created the design for an analog-programmable Moog synthesizer and commissioned Robert Moog to build it. In 1977, Joel Chadabe and Roger Meyers developed the PLAY Program, the first software music sequencer. From 1983 to 1994, Joel Chadabe was the president of Intelligent Music, the first company to develop and distribute software and hardware for interactive composing, In 1994, he founded Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the history and creative potential of electronic music. In 2006, he founded Ear To The Earth, a worldwide network for environmental sound..."

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

After checking out the interview with Joel Chadabe, click here and scroll for other interviews with synth legends on Astronauta Pinguim.

Jean Jacques Perrey Interview on Astronauta Pinguim

"Jean Jacques Perrey was born on January 20, 1929 in a small village in the north of France. When he was 4 years old, Santa Claus brought him his first accordion (on Christmas Eve, 1933) and, after that, he was possessed by a "little demon of music", as he says. In 1952 while attending medical school in Paris he met George Jenny, inventor of an innovative musical instrument called Ondioline. This contact with Georges Jenny was only the first of a series of meetings with personalities who passed through the life of Jean Jacques Perrey and that somehow have marked his whole career. Because of his enormous talent to play the "ondioline", he was invited by the famous singer Edith Piaf to take part in her shows - as a musician, playing the Ondioline..."

Read the full post on Astronauta Pinguim here. via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

An Interview with Bruno Spoerri on Astronauta Pinguim

Update: in case you read this post when it first went up, be sure to give it another look for a few updates.  It's a bit convoluted with quite a few tangents, but that's how it goes sometimes.

Read the full interview on Astronauta Pinguim here.

The following are some excerpts and tie-ins to other bits of synth history.

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Initially a saxophone player, Bruno Spoerri explored electronic music in the 1960s on.

"In 1964 he was invited to a job in an advertising agency and began to work with electronic music using a Ondes Martenot and, after, using lots of synthesizers and also experimenting with electrified/synthesized saxophones..." "As a saxophonist and jazz improviser I always looked for ways to play without a keyboard."

Pictured above is Bruno with his EMS Synthi 100 (videos previously posted here and here).

On the Synthi 100: "I bought the Synthi 100 in 1971. In 1987 I gave it to Felix Visser (Synton) in exchange for a Fairlight CMI; some years he had to sell it at an auction, and I don't know where it is now (I would recognize the instrument, as I did some small changes on it)."  It was listed on Vemia back in 2009 posted here and here. Click though for pics.

In 1974, he recorded the album 'Iischalte (Switched-on Switzerland)'.

Bruno Spoerri - Le Ranz Des Vaches


Uploaded on Jul 25, 2011 Aura Archange Maudit·57 videos

"Bruno Spoerri - Iischalte (Switched-on Switzerland)
1974

Imágenes de la película La lunga notte di Veronique (1966)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183441/

Video made by Aura Archange Maudit"

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"On 'Voice Of Taurus' (1978), Bruno Spoerri experiments a lot with electrified wind instruments and also with jazz-rock and rock."

Bruno Spoerri - Hymn Of Taurus (Taurus Is Calling You!)

Uploaded on Nov 19, 2009 MrJJBonanza·29 videos
Re-Published on Sep 30, 2014 Bruno Spoerri - Topic

"First track of Bruno Spoerri's 'Voice Of Taurus'
1978 Gold Records, Switzerland
Cat# 11 061 (Vinyl, LP)

Bruno Spoerri on 'Hymn Of Taurus':
"The rhythm track was created with my very first primitive ring modulator (4 diodes and 2 transformers) that is why it is so dirty The voice went of course through the EMS vocoder, the choir was created through the VAKO Orchestron."

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Again, don't miss the full interview with Bruno Spoerri on Astronauta Pinguim here. There's some fascinating history there including Ginette Martenot and the Ondes Martenot, Oskar Sala with his Mixturtrautonium, and Joel Chadabe. Regarding his original gear, "most of my analog gear is sold (most of it to the remarkable Swiss Synthorama of Martin Hollinger), but I still have my first synthi, the EMS VCS-3 (from 1970), the ARP 2600 with sequencer and the Lyricon I and II. I use the lyricon quite often in performances, the other gear mostly for demonstrations to visitors."

I was fortunate enough to visit Synthorama back in 2008. You can find my pics and videos from the visit here. See the Synthorama label for other posts including a one of a kind modular, the Airböurne, created by the curator of the museum, Martin Hollinger.

For more posts featuring Bruno click here and scroll.  Check him out on the Synthophone and Gesture Based Synthesis here.

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

You can find links to additional interviews with synth history's early influentials by Astronauta Pinguim here.

An Interview with Vince Clarke on Astronauta Pinguim

On his massive synth collection:

"I think I seriously started collecting synths in the early 90's. And then, having run out of space, I stopped. I realized, the only keyboards worth owning were the one's that would be useful to my music making process, and that is still true today. I try to incorporate as many different synths as possible into my music, rather than favor one particular keyboard over another."

Read the full interview with additional pics on Astronauta Pinguim here.


via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Interview with Udo Hanten on Astronauta Pinguim

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full interview and tons of pics.

"Udo Hanten was born in Krefeld (North Rhine Westfalia, Germany), in 1956. His first instrument was an acoustic guitar, but it was the electronic possibilities that Udo could achieve with that guitar plus a pickup, a tube radio, a spring reverb and a reel to reel recorder that led him choose his career as an electronic musician and producer later on. In the late '60s he started in music, in late '70s he started to work with audio performances and installations, in the early '80s he started to work with video and in the mid-'80s he started with Laserworks. Udo is in the business with all those art forms since then!..."


via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Astronauta Pinguim on the KORG VC-10 Vocoder

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full post including more pics.

"Produced between 1978 and 1982, the Korg VC-10 vocoder was the most popular among the many vocoder models made in the 70’s by several manufacturers. When the VC-10 came on the market, both the Korg - originally called Keio Electronic Laboratories - as the voice decoder (or vocoder) had some years of existence. What Korg did was attach a synthesizer to something that already existed and that was what made this instrument extremely popular: portability and the convenience of having a vocoder that didn't require external instrument to generate audio signal and modulate the pitch. They created a "self-sufficient” vocoder – you could only plug a microphone into it and was all ready to go!"

via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

MATRIXSYNTH T on Stage

via Facebook

Lirinha with Astronauta Pinguim on Keys - TV performance posted here.

Fabricio Carvalho (Astronauta Pinguim) on Keys: Minimoog Model D, Roland EP30 electronic piano and a Crumar Toccata organ. Be sure to check out his Moog tattoo. Igor Medeiros on Nord Modular.

Moog Catalog Featuring Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Chick Corea, Jan Hammer, Keith Emerson, Tony Banks

"The Moog Philosophy

'If you're into synthesizers, you have a lot in common with us. We're concerned, and maybe you are too, about some of the hype that's been around on synthesizer design. It's the kind of hype that places too much importance on gimmicks that don't have any real musical purpose.

Musicians Like You Help Design Moog Sinthesizers'"

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the rest of the scans and a full write-up.

via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

I'm missing the sixth person in the title. Anyone know who it is?

Moog Prodigy Multi-Page Promo Poster / Product Sheet

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full set of scans and a write-up. Click the pics to read.

When folded out, the poster is 16.5" x 23" inches.

via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge