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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Belgian Magazine Article Featuring Mario Mathy



This one is in via Jos who had the following to say followed by an English translation of the article.

"Years ago, I sent you information about Mario Mathy (I think 2019). You published it on your blog. [you can find it in previous posts featuring Mario Mathy here] Afterward, Mario Mathy's 'Jumping Dance' went viral and achieved cult status.

Since your blog has become the most comprehensive and important documented synthesizer resource online, the attached article should also be saved for future history. It would be cool if you could share it with the rest of the synthesizer community. I translated it from Dutch to English using Google Translate.

Notice in the picture below the article that the photo was taken during the period when Mario endorsed Korg.

All I can see in the picture is Korg equipment. The song 'Love Dreams' is from his first album.

I expect most of the songs from his first album ‘Hello This is Mario Mathy’ were created using Korg synthesizers (in contrary to what you would expect from the album cover showing only casio).

After his first album, the single 'Jumping Dance' was released in Belgium. 'Jumping Dance' was from his second album, 'Music-Land'.

On his second album, you can hear a noticeable difference in his sound.

This likely resulted from switching from Korg to Casio synthesizers.

Mario was my piano teacher when I was about 15 years old."

You can check out Mario Mathy's releases on Discogs here.

The following is the tranlation of the article pictured in this post.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

BUCHLA & FRIENDS: THE SYNTH MAKER SHOWCASE Event Set for LA Next Weekend Jan 25 & 26



Tickets available at Eventbrite

"We’re gathering over 70 boutique synth makers in one awesome Silverlake spot so you can learn, listen, and live the latest in electronic music sound production. This hands-on, headphones-only gathering gives you a chance to hear the best sounds science has ever created. From additive to subtractive, analog to digital, keyboards to breath, audio to visual (yes- some video synths will be here too!), modular to full-size polyphonic, eurorack to Serge to Buchla, you’ll meet synth makers and synth enthusiasts alike. This will be January’s biggest two-day collection of hands-on synths on the West Coast! If you love creative sound, you need to be here."

Delicious food (including vegan) from Moby Rick’s fish tacos, incredible carbonated beverages from United Wild Brew. Exhibitors: 1010music • 4ms • After Later Audio • AIAIAI • AJH • ALM Busy Circuits • Animal Factory • Ashton Research • ASM • Bastl Instruments • Bitwig • Black Corporation • Bored Brain • Buchla • Catalyst • Circuit Happy • Crosspatch • Days of Yore • Rain City Modular • Doepfer • Dogbotic Labs • Dreadbox • Drift DJ • Elektron • Endorphines • eowave • Eternal Research • Five12 • Flame • Frap Tools • Future Retro • Genki Instruments • Groove Synthesis • Jomox • LA Synth Club • Mega Modular Corp • Melbourne instruments • MEMS project • Meris • Modbap • Moog Foundation • Mystic Circuits • Netherblade • New Systems Instruments • Noise Engineering • Noisebug • Novation • Null Modular • OXI Instruments • Polyend • Prism Circuits • Roger Linn • Schlappi Engineering • Sleepy Circuits • SoCal Synth Society • SOMA • Soundwork Shop • Studio Electronics • Supercritical • SynthRISE • TipTop • Tobinski • Touellskouarn • U.D.O. • Vermona • Wavea • Waveform Magazine • Wavesequencer • Weston Precision Audio • WMD ... & more!

Buchla organizes this event to make a stronger synthesizer community. We make it free to attend and affordable for exhibitors. This makes the vibes great - after all, we are all making our own waves!"

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Emulator II 40th Anniversary | Podcast


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking E-mu Systems Emulator II sampler, Dave Rossum, Kevin Monahan and Paul Wiffen share inside stories of the development and manufacture of the instrument, their struggles to get around the technological limitations of the time and how the instrument was widely adopted by bands, artists and pop culture.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - The Origins Of The Emulator
03:59 - The E-mu Name
04:57 - Kevin's Background
08:09 - Paul's Background
11:19 - The Motivation For Creating Emulator II
16:26 - Specific Challenges
25:19 - The Challenges Of Adding Hard Drives
30:35 - How Did The Iconic Industrial Design Come About?
35:11 - Having Two Disc Drives
38:22 - How Artists Responded To The Emulator II
46:46 - Using Sampling To Create Novelty Sounds
56:08 - Kevin's Contribution To Ferris Bueller's Day Off
57:37 - The Legacy Of The Emulator II And Sampling

Friday, December 06, 2024

Mark Twain on the Tellharmonium



This one was spotted and sent in by Gerard Pardeilhan.

Note that's not Mark Twain in the image as he was much older in 1907 as pictured here. The image appears to be "Musician playing at the Telharmonic Hall. The photograph originally appeared in Gunther’s Magazine, June 1907. Courtesy Reynold Weidenaar" according to Cabinet Magazine.

From the article on Cabinet Magazine:

"'The trouble about these beautiful, novel things is that they interfere so with one’s arrangements. Every time I see or hear a new wonder like this I have to postpone my death right off. I couldn’t possibly leave the world until I have heard this again and again.' —Mark Twain

The new wonder that Mark Twain described was the Telharmonium, a pioneering and immensely ambitious electrical musical instrument, the first to synthesize sounds from electrically generated waves. Conceived in the early 1890s by Thaddeus Cahill—whose original name for his invention was the Dynamophone—the instrument produced sound with dynamos that generated alternating currents. Because the sound was generated electrically, it was possible not only to synthesize sound but also to transmit it over telephone lines, making it possible to provide music to thousands of hotels, restaurants, and home subscribers."

I did a quick search for the quote and also found the following from The New York Times, December 23, 1906 on twainquotes.com via The New York Times.

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TWAIN AND THE TELEPHONE
He Hears the Telharmonium and Incidentally Tells a Story.

"The trouble with these beautiful, novel things is that they interfere so with one's arrangements. Every time I see or hear a new wonder like this I have to postpone my death right off. I couldn't possibly leave the world until I have heard this again and again."

Mark Twain said this as he lounged on the keyboard dais in the telharmonium music room in upper Broadway, swinging his legs, yesterday afternoon. The instrument has just played the "Lohengrin Wedding March" for him.

"You see, I read about this in THE NEW YORK TIMES last Sunday, and I wanted to hear it. If a great Princess marries, what is to hinder all the lamps along the streets on her wedding night playing that march together? Or, if a great man should die -- I, for example -- they could all be tuned up for a dirge."

"Of course, I know that it is intended to deliver music all over the town through the telephone, but that hardly appeals as much as it might to a man who for years, because of his addiction to strong language, has tried to conceal his telephone number, just like a chauffeur running away after an accident.

"When I lived up in Hartford, I was the very first man, in that part of New England at least, to put in a telephone --, but it was constantly getting me into trouble because of the things I said carelessly. And the family were all so thoughtless. One day when I was in the garden, fifty feet from the house, somebody on the long distance wire who was publishing a story of mine, wanted to get the title.

"Well, the title was the first sentence, "Tell him to go to hell." Before my daughter got it through the wire and through him there was a perfect eruption of profanity in that region. All New England seemed to be listening in, and each time my daughter repeated it she did so with rising emphasis. It was awful. I broke into a cold perspiration, and while the neighborhood rang with it, rushed in and implored her to desist. But she would have the last word, and it was "hell," sure enough, every time.

"Soon after I moved to New York; perhaps that had something to do with my moving. When I got there and asked for a fire-proof telephone, the company sent up a man to me. I opened up all my troubles to him, but he laughed and said it was all right in New York. There was a clause in their contract, he said, allowing every subscriber to talk in his native tongue, and of course they would not make an exception against me. That clause has been a godsend to me."

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I also found another write-up on Substack here.

See the Telharmonium label below for additional posts.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

ETI International 4600 Vintage Semi-Modular Synthesizer

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.


via this listing

"This is a large semi-modular synthesizer, designed in Australia and released as a kit by Electronics Today International magazine in 1973. The large aluminium panel pivots forward for maintenance. Its 22x22 matrix switchboard, joystick, complex modulation and feature set is reminsicent of a larger EMS VCS3, a comparison enhanced by the use of genuine Cliff "little Dalek" knobs.

The main modules in the 4600 design were repackaged for the (smaller) ETI 3600 and the lightly larger Maplin 5600 kit synthesizers. Its notable features are volts-per-herz VCOS (rather than volts-per-Octave linear VCOs), complex Transient Generators that are like simple three stage sequencers, and a different-sounding VCF.

This is a rare, powerful and unique synthesizer that needs some TLC from a competent builder to unlock its potential.

STORY

In the early 80s before it had been completely built, it suffered damage (the plaster ceiling collapsed on it, because of a shoddy repair job after the previous tenants, a punk gang, had a "demolition party" that destroyed all internal walls). The keyboard was destroyed and there seemed little reason to replace it (the first 4600 keyboard circuitry was problematic and had been replaced by a design from the Fairlight team.) There was some scratches to the case and a lot of dust, though the pots did not seem scratchy.

Friday, October 18, 2024

SynthFest UK 2024 - Iconic Drum Machines


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Oli Freke from Synth Evolution takes us on a guided tour of some of the most iconic drum machines that shaped music in our time.

He'll be joined on stage by Michael Eden who will demonstrate some of the drum machines in his collection.

Chapter times:

00:00 - Introducing the hosts
00:50 - What is a drum machine?
03:30 - The Wurlitzer Sideman from 1959, the first drum machine?
04:35 - Wurlitzer Sideman demonstration
08:15 - The Sideman's valve mechanism in action
09:52 - Legal problems and use by home organists
11:21 - Transistor-based Keio Donca Matic DE-11 from 1966
13:34 - Donca Matic DE-11 demonstration
15:15 - Keio becomes Korg
16:17 - Ace Tone Drum machines from 1967
17:15 - Keio Mini Pops 7 from 1967
20:47 - Famed use by Jean-Michel Jarre on Oxygene (Note: YouTube has muted the music clip)
23:12 - Inclusion of Quijada/ Jawbone sound
24:24 - Robin Gibb, Sly & The Family Stone drum machine firsts
26:29 - Paia Programmable Drumset from 1975
28:06 - Paia Drumset programming demonstration
32:16 - Use by Peter Gabriel
34:01 - Roland TR-808 from 1980
37:29 - Roland TR-808 features and demonstration
41:00 - Programming a beat on the TR-808
43:48 - Pioneering new genres of electronic music
47:13 - How does the TR-808 make its sounds?
48:14 - Recreating the 808 bass drum
50:39 - Recreating the 808 snare drum
52:22 - Recreating the 808 clap sound
53:48 - Recreating the 808 hi-hat sound
56:17 - Recreating the 808 cowbell sound
57:38 - Comparing the digital model with the original TR-808
58:29 - Outro

Oli Freke may be contacted via his website.
https://www.synthevolution.net"

Monday, October 14, 2024

SYNTHFEST UK 2024: Arcana Strum


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Arcana Instruments recently won the hardware category of this years MIDI Innovation awards! The creator Boaz gave us a demo of this innovative and educational instrument that anyone can use, designed to be an accessible guitar. Definitely one to check out.

https://arcanainstruments.com/product..."



"Arcana Strum empowers anyone to play guitar.

The Arcana Strum instrument is extremely easy to just pick up and play.

Providing an uplifting experience suitable and accessible for practically everyone.

ACCESSORIES

A range of supporting devices

The Arcana strum can be played in many different ways. During the development stage of the instrument, we carefully studied and considered your needs in order to optimize your playing experience. For instance, several ideas came from observing how people operate motorized wheelchairs, and we incorporated some of these ideas in the accessories we developed. By doing so, we provide solutions for a wide range of needs and abilities, both physical and cognitive.

The story of Arcana began in 2015. Its origin was a young girl who faced difficulty to play musical instruments and wanted to feel equal and included.

Our team of musicians, engineers and designers gathered together and founded Arcana to support her as well as millions of other people around the world who confront similar difficulties."

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

New SynthFest UK 2024 Videos by Sound on Sound


video uploads by Sound On Sound magazine

Playlist:
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: Analogue Solutions TC5000
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: Expert Sleepers Disting NT
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: Baloran The Pool
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: SSL 2 MkII & SSL 2+ MkII
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: Embodme Erae II
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: RYK Modular Algo
SYNTHFEST UK 2024: CB Electronics Eurorack Range

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Moog Music Introduces the New Moog Muse



Check with dealers on the right for price and availability.

Playlist:
Moog Music - Moog Muse | Reflections | Lisa Bella Donna
Moog Music - Moog Muse | Reflections | Misha Mansoor
Matt Johnson Jamiroquai - The incredible Moog Muse! Moog's new megasynth
Sound On Sound magazine - PREVIEW: Moog Muse Synthesizer Overview & Demo
Limbic Bits - MOOG MUSE Sound Demo (no talking): 21 Custom Presets for Ambient, Electronica and Melodic Techno
mylarmelodies - What you want to know about Moog Muse
Bonedo Synthesizers - Bonedo Synthesizers
loopop - Moog MUSE // Review, tutorial and plenty of sounds
HAINBACH - Moog Muse: Demo and Patch from Scratch



"Muse is an eight-voice analog bi-timbral polyphonic synthesizer — the culmination of over 5 years of dreams, design, and passion. Muse is an intuitive and powerful instrument built on the rich history of Moog that simultaneously gazes boldly into the future. This studio or performance centerpiece is driven by eight analog voices, each with two VCOs, a modulation VCO, dual VCFs, and a stereo VCA — all with that recognizable, kinetic analog quality.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Bob Moog Foundation: Adam Holzman Live at Static Age in Asheville NC


video upload by moogfoundation

"On Saturday, June 29, 2024, Holzman will perform a synthesizer and piano concert at Static Age Records.

Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m. For the performance, Holzman will create all sequences and loops in real-time analog without the assistance of a laptop using a variety of synthesizers. When asked to describe the concert, Holzman stated, “It will be sort of Tangerine Dream meets Keith Jarret.”

Tickets for the performance are $20 per person: bit.ly/AdamHolzmanLive.

Holzman is a masterful keyboard player, educator, author, and cartoonist who has spent his career performing with some of music’s biggest names while releasing numerous highly acclaimed recordings. From 1985-1989, he performed more than 200 concerts worldwide with jazz legend, Miles Davis, serving as Davis’s musical director in 1988. Holzman also toured and/or recorded extensively with Grover Washington Jr., Chaka Khan, Wayne Shorter, and many others. Holzman has frequently collaborated with British rocker Steven Wilson and is featured on many of Wilson’s acclaimed releases. Since 2012, Holzman has consistently placed high in Classic Rock and Prog magazine’s ‘Best Keyboard Player’ category. In addition to performing, Holzman wrote Creative Synthesizer Technique, which can be purchased at the Moogseum or online, and teaches part-time at The New School University in New York City.

Funds raised from ticket purchases for the concert and workshop will be used to expand the Bob Moog Foundation’s hallmark education project, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, which has inspired over 30,000 elementary school students through the science of sound. The auction will also help support the Bob Moog Foundation Archives and the Moogseum, an immersive, experiential facility located in Asheville, North Carolina, which brings Bob Moog’s pioneering legacy and the science of sound and synthesis alive for people of all ages. The Moogseum opened in 2019 and has since welcomed over nearly 35,000 visitors.

Visit for more info: https://bit.ly/AdamHolzmanLive."

Friday, May 24, 2024

SUPERBOOTH24: Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"The Voltage Lab 2 from Pittsburgh Modular is a self-contained modular instrument that boasts an all-analogue design but introduces some interesting new waveshaping techniques."

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

SUPERBOOTH24: Melbourne Instruments Delia


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"The Delia from Melbourne Instruments takes many of the key features of their Nina synth module and places them in a keyboard. Interestingly it’s more affordable than the Nina..."

SUPERBOOTH24: Korg Berlin phase8


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"At Superbooth 2024 we caught up with Tats from Korg Berlin to check out the phase8, the latest prototype instrument which employs their innovative new acoustic synthesis method."

SUPERBOOTH24: Tiptop Audio Art Series


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Tiptop Audio are showing off the latest modules to join their Art line-up, a series of modules that make it possible to build a polyphonic Eurorack rig."

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Polyphonic Wavetable Modules
01:53 - Triax 8 Polyphonic Oscillator
04:18 - Octovert, M Module & Z8000 Matrix Sequencer
06:23 - VC-Resonator
07:41 - A Polyphonic Eurorack System?
10:15 - Price & Availability

SUPERBOOTH24: Tiptop Audio Buchla 200t Series


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"We check out the latest additions to Tiptop Audio's collection of Buchla 200 Series recreations, bringing the legendary designer’s sound to modern Eurorack systems."

00:00 - Buchla Partnership Intro
01:10 - 200t Complete System
02:02 - Model 259t Oscillator
04:49 - Model 285t Frequency Shifter
07:23 - SOUND DEMO

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

SUPERBOOTH24: SOMA Laboratory FLUX


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"SOMA Laboratory's latest experimental offering is FLUX, a performance instrument that uses handheld magnets to offer Theremin-style control over pitch and volume while leaving a hand free for modulation."

SUPERBOOTH24: Polyend Press


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"We spotted a new prototype debuted at this year's Superbooth show. Press sees Polyend head in a new direction, offering an analogue stereo compressor with some versatile side-chain filtering options in a compact pedal enclosure."

SUPERBOOTH24: Polyend Tracker +


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"With the launch of the Tracker+, Polyend‘s popular hardware sampler has gained eight additional tracks and a collection of new built-in drum and synth engines."

SUPERBOOTH24: Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Groove Synthesis revealed a major update for the 3rd Wave at this year's Superbooth show, kitting out their powerful instrument with 35 seconds of sampling."

Monday, May 20, 2024

SUPERBOOTH24: Arturia Polybrute 12


video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Arturia have just launched the PolyBrute 12 which doubles the voice count of the original PolyBrute and boasts a new FullTouch keyboard that opens up a whole host of expressive performance possibilities."
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