The Tappan Zee (Gov. Mario M. Cuomo) Bridge - I-87, I-287, and NYS Thruway

video upload by CatSynth TV

"A ride along I-287, I-87 and the New York State Thruway westbound in Westchester and Rockland Counties, just north of New York City. Along the way we cross over the Hudson River on the Tappan Zee Bridge, also known as the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The original Tappan Zee Bridge open in 1955 - it was only designed for a life span of 50 years, and was showing signs of decay by the 2000s. It was replaced in 2017 by the new twin cable-stayed span that we see in this video.

Filmed in October 2023, with pockets of fall foliage colors visible.

Original music by Amanda Chaudhary, featuring drums by G Calvin Weston and Amanda Chaudhary on synthesizers and electronics:
QuBit Prism
Cherry Audio Elka-X and Sines
Arturia Pigments, Melltron V, and Stage 73
EastWest Ministry of Rock 2 (bass)
Strymon StarLab
E350 Morphing Terrarium
Rossum Eletro-music Morpheus
Metasonix R-54 Supermodule
Big Fish Audio Grindhouse

0:00 Introduction
0:25 I-287 (Cross Westchester Expressway)
1:33 Merging with I-87 and the New York State Thruway
2:32 The Tappan Zee (Gov Mario M Cuomo) Bridge
4:00 Rockland County

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Dark Ambient Synth Beats with my Novation Circuit Tracks

video upload by North River

"My live jam using my Circuit Tracks from #novation #novationcircuittracks"

US Highway 395: Owens Valley (Independence to Bishop)

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We ride north on US 395 as it traverses the arid Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada; we start in the town of Independence and end in Bishop. In the community of Big Pine, the Californa Highway 168 joins with US 395 en route to Bishop.

The Owens Valley is among the deepest valleys, wedged between the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada and the Inyo and White Mountains to the east. The rain shadow leaves most of the valley a dry, desert environment. The Owens River, an which runs through the valley, has been heavily tapped as a main water supply for Los Angeles, which makes the valley even drier. Nonetheless, it is quite beautiful, as is US 395.

Original music by Amanda Chaudhary (an updated version of the music from 'Highway 58: Part 3').
Drums by G Calvin Weston
Synthesizers, keyboards, and electronics by Amanda Chaudhary featuring the following instruments:
Sequential Prophet 12
Buchla Red Panel 158 and 156m
Arturia Piano V, Wurli V, Mellotron V, CS-80 V
Ministry of Rock, Fab Four, Orchestra Gold
Minimoog
Grindhouse
Styrmon Magneto
Arturia MiniFreak
Korg modwave
Nord Stage EX
AudioThing / Hainbach Wires"

Sequential Prophet Rev 2 - Bi-timbral Sound Bank

video upload by Polydata

"An exploration of stacked patches with the Sequential / Dave Smith Instruments Prophet Rev 2. I've often found bi-timbral patches cheesy, uninspiring, or just not useful. I sought to create this bank to show how powerful and beautiful patch stacking can be. It needs to be approached with care - not just slapping two sounds together, but carefully tailoring each sound to complement each other and blend into a single unit that is greater than the sum of it's parts. Nuance is key.

30 carefully designed bi-timbral patches for instant inspiration. Recorded completely dry with no external effects or processing.

Link:
polydata.bigcartel.com

After payment, you will receive the SysEx file in your email within 24 hours. Loads into User Bank 3 by default, slots 1-30.

POLYDATA music
polydata.bandcamp.com

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Korg Electribe 2 ✚ Eurorack Modular Synthesizer ✚ Plonk ✚ Plaits & Rings ✚ Big Sky ✚ CALEDON

video upload by Jay Frederick

"All melodic parts are from the eurorack and sequenced via the Korg Electribe 2 via the Squarp Hermod. Nature sounds are from the location on camera mics added in post.

Recorded with the Soundcraft mixer as audio interface into Nuendo 11 at Curtis Creek campground: part of the Pisgah National Forest in Old Fort, North Carolina. Additional footage shot by the Potomac River at Caledon State Park in King George, Virginia. Powered with the Jackery 1000 PSU."

Todd Barton on BBC Sounds + Multum in Parvo Release

Excerpts of Todd Barton's performance at the Unsound Festival in Krakow is up on BBC Sounds.

"A rebroadcast of excerpts from my performance of Music and Poetry of the Kesh at the Unsound Festival in Krakow last month with a wonderful ensemble of Polish musicians. Here's the link which will be active for a month.

And the first excerpt on the broadcast is from my new solo Buchla Music Easel album, Multum in Parvo with cover art by Ursula Barton! [embed below]

Much more to come in 2019! Gigs in Belgium, NYC and Santa Barbara. New Album releases too.

Happy Holidays!
Best wishes,
Todd"

"If you’re anything like me, then one of your favourite albums of 2018 was Music and Poetry of The Kesh, released on the Freedom To Spend label. Recorded over two years in the mid-1980s, Music and Poetry of The Kesh in truth was never really designed as an ‘album’ as such. It was a cassette bundled with early editions of the legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home novel.

The novel described the art, culture, language and ethnography of a fictional tribe of indigenous inhabitants of North California, 500 years from now. On the tape, Le Guin and her friend and collaborator, composer and sound artist Todd Barton, created a detailed, vivid musical identity for these people - the Kesh.

Listened to in 2018, the sounds of Music and Poetry of The Kesh feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. Todd designed and built new instruments to realise the Kesh’s music, which were woven among synthesisers and field recordings from the Kesh’s native Napa Valley.

It’s a stunning, singular piece of work, but the story doesn’t end there. Anyone intrigued by Music and Poetry of the Kesh would be well advised to dig further into Todd Barton’s work, starting with Multum in Parvo - a brand new piece Todd composed using the Epoch Modular Benjolin and Buchla Music Easel.

“Don Buchla created a musical instrument that he said had no ‘preconceived ideas,’” Todd recently told the Listen to This website. “He wanted people to figure out how they wanted to interface with it. You see that with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alessandro Cortini—they’re bringing their own voice to the palette. For my part, I’m obsessed with sound, with the ‘Buchla Paradigm.’

“His approach to synthesis, which was so different from Moog on the East coast, is immediately evident to anyone who has ever touched a Buchla instrument. If you listen to a Buchla, it will start rewiring your synapses.”

Todd honed his craft composing for acoustic instruments - string quartets, small ensembles and orchestras. In the 1970s he was drawn to emergent synthesiser technologies because of their abilities to access tones ‘between’ the standard 12 notes of the Western musical scale, and to have the power to craft music out of glitches and unique sonic gestures that are unplayable on acoustic instruments.

Multum in Parvo is reflective of this approach - it has a definite and logical flow as a composition, but its content is abstract sound sculpted out of pure energy, something only analogue synthesis can offer.

Sometimes sparse, sometimes bristling and jumping with detail, Multum... provides a genuinely multidimensional experience. Listen to it in the dark on your best headphones, you experience your brain moving slowly through a black space where an orchestra of strange, electro-microorganisms seem to swarm, murmurate and disperse, adding their distinct flutters, whispers and calls to an immersive electronic symphony.

Like the classic Forbidden Planet soundtrack, which Todd was inspired by, or indeed Music and Poetry of the Kesh - Multum in Parvo seems to function as part of some unique sonic ecology, according to its own rules, in its own universe and somewhere just beyond time.

Multum in Parvo is available on CD with artwork by the artist Ursula Barton - Todd’s daughter, named after his great friend and collaborator. It is also available on cassette with Blue Tapes artwork as ‘blue twenty-eight’.

Praise for Todd Barton:

"Multum In Parvo creates a very real imaginary place, and then it weaves that imaginary place into exactly where you are right now. I’ve listened to Multum In Parvo a dozen times or more and I’ve never heard the same album twice, because I change and my mood changes but also because incidental noises in my body and my surroundings – from sighs to car horns to distant giggles – all seem to be on very friendly terms with Todd Barton and his Buchla." - The Quietus

“Listen outdoors and the creek water you hear in Le Guin and Barton’s songs may sync up to the muddy river you’re passing; listen during a city’s winter and the percussive rhythm and bell-like tones will commune with your apartment radiator. These are sounds that seek to speak from then and beyond, to right now.” - Pitchfork
credits
released October 5, 2018

Improvised soundscapes by Todd Barton
on the Buchla Music Easel and Epoch Hordijk Benjolin

Cover art by Ursula Barton (ursulabarton.com)"

Moog Model 15 Limited-edition Reissue Modular Synthesizer WITH 953 Keyboard

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via this auction

via the seller: "I am selling my as new Moog Model 15 Limited-edition Reissue Modular Synthesizer. I purchased to give it a go (always wanted to play a moog modular!) - and I just do not use it (or like it!) as much as my Eurorack stuff...... Used for about 5 hours.

I am also selling this with a matching BLACK Moog 953 - 61 key duophonic keyboard (BLACK COLOR) designed for use with the Moog modular System. THIS KEYBOARD IS STILL IN THE BOX!

The Moog 953 duophonic keyboard designed for use with the Moog modular System $1099.00 NEW
Moog Model 15 Limited-edition Reissue Modular Synthesizer $10,000.00 NEW

All as new for $8500.00 !

YOU MUST PICK UP IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO! (River North) I WILL NOT SHIP!"

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Bob Moog Foundation Announces Feast for the Future - May 23

"'Feast for the Future' to Support Bob Moog Foundation on Synthesizer Pioneer’s Birthday
Local restaurants to donate proceeds benefiting Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool

April 29, 2013, Asheville, NC -- Eleven local restaurants in the Asheville community are coming together for Feast for the Future, a fundraiser to support local non-profit, the Bob Moog Foundation. Feast for the Future takes place on May 23rd, what would have been the 79th birthday of the Foundation’s namesake, Bob Moog. In honor of this special occasion Early Girl Eatery, Moe’s Original BBQ, Wicked Weed, Chestnut, Laughing Seed Café, Jack of the Wood, Chai Pani, MG Road, Bouchon, Salsa’s, and The Local Joint, will be donating a portion of their sales from the day to the Bob Moog Foundation. This event is being sponsored by the Mountain Xpress and Asheville Radio Group’s 98.1 the River. More information on the event, including information about participating restaurants, can be found at www.bobmoogfoundation.org.

Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation, states, “What began as a one restaurant event last year has blossomed to encompass eleven local restaurants. We are so grateful to the culinary community in Asheville as they support our efforts to inspire the next generation of creative thinkers. We look forward to growing Feast for the Future every year and to growing Dr. Bob's SoundSchool to hundreds of schools in Western North Carolina in the coming years".

Proceeds from the event will benefit the expansion of Dr. Bob’s Sound School, the Foundation’s STEAM (science, technology, education, art, math) -based educational initiative that teaches second grade children the science of sound through the magic of music. Using electronic musical and acoustic instruments, as well as oscilloscopes and custom teaching materials, the innovative program engages children in the basic physics of sound through the parameters of Bob Moog’s pioneering legacy in electronic music. Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool recently completed its pilot year with resounding success, and is currently in 32 classrooms reaching over 600 students in Buncombe County and Asheville City Schools. The Foundation aims to expand the program regionally and nationally in the next three to five years.

Julie Stehnling, owner of Early Girl Eatery, reflects on her experience last year as the sole participant in Bob’s Birthday Salute, “Early Girl is so proud to be part of Feast for the Future. Last year our staff and our guests had a blast celebrating Bob's birthday. Remembering Bob as a kind man who was one of our own and also celebrating him as a visionary of our times is an honor all in Asheville are lucky to have. Both my children and I are inspired by the Bob Moog Foundation's Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool curriculum. Preserving Bob's genius and working to inspire more folks both locally and nationally is work we are so happy to support.”

The Bob Moog Foundation honors the legacy of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog through its mission of igniting the innovative and creative spirit through the intersection of music, science, history, and innovation. Dr. Moog was a resident of Asheville for 25 years before his passing in 2005.

(http://www.bobmoogfoundation.org)
(http://981theriver.com)
(www.mountainx.com)
(http://earlygirleatery.com/)
(http://www.moesoriginalbbq.com/locations/asheville.aspx)
(www.salsas-asheville.com/)
(www.wickedweedbrewing.com/)
(www.chestnutasheville.com/)
(http://ashevillebouchon.com/)
(http://www.jackofthewood.com/)
(http://laughingseed.jackofthewood.com/)
(http://chaipani.net/)
(http://mgroadlounge.com/)
(https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Local-Joint/175520499207682)

Be sure to see the Dr. Bob's SoundSchool - Inspired Progress video previously posted here.

Monkeys + Synthesizers - Voltfestivalen june 9, 2012

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by voltfestivalen

"Monkeys + Synthesizers is a project where 6 different spieces of monkeys (and some others) were given different synthesizers. Do monkeys like music and do they enjoy creating music?

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Bob Moog Foundation Auction: Original Bob Moog Inspired Mixed Media Painting

via this auction
"This auction is for a piece by Asheville artist Marie Knight from ArtYes.

Piece Description: Winged girl carries a synthesizer suitcase to the bus stop as the sun sets in a circuit sky. Paints & vinyl collage on board. Colors in the second photo are more true to life.

It measures 16x20. It is signed and dated by the artist on the back.

Media: Cut Vinyl and paint on board

Since 2007, Marie Knight has worked out of a small studio in the Asheville, North Carolina river arts district. When she's not chained to a lab bench or watching Audrey Hepburn movies, she combines flattened, distorted, embellished, and scaled-up representations of all manner of life forms with scaled-down signmaking to make arresting and occasionally nerdy graphic art.

You can see more of Marie's work online at: www.artyes.net"
You might remember this one in the making from this post.