Swarmatron, in the flesh.

YouTube Uploaded by tremorcore on Jul 3, 2011

"A quick and dirty montage (shot & edited on iPod) of Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan's set on 7/2/2011 at the Bing Bang Boing festival in Catskill, NY. I was able to grab a few snaps of their early Swarmatron prototype and the amazing Dual Primate Console.

Nearly impossible to see in these clips are the three 8-track tape players at center stage. Post-show, Leon explained the tapes were being fed into the DPC, where they were chopped and processed.

Sadly, the mic on the iPod does no justice to the sound happening in the room. It did, however, pick up the resident barn swallows."

Charles Hazlewood plays Thunderbirds, Jarvis Cocker and and Barry Gray's Ondes Martenot

Published on Feb 23, 2016 sonicstate

"The Ondes Martenot and the Swarmatron shared a stage with the Charles Hazlewood All Star Collective, playing the music of 'Supermarionation' composer Barry Gray in St. George's as part of the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol, with special guest vocalist Jarvis Cocker, Adrian Utley, Francois Evans and members of the Paraorchestra.
www.charleshazlewood.com
www.barrygray.co.uk
www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk
www.paraorchestra.com
www.dewanatron.com/instruments.php?page=­swarmatron"

Update: also titled 60’s Electronica: Charles Hazlewood - Thunderbirds Are GO! Bristol St. Georges, Feb 2016

Swarmatron 2015

Published on Nov 27, 2015 tim

"Swarmatron being played by Paul Nagle of the band Headshock

www.headshock.co.uk"

Dewanatron's Swarmatron Featured in The New Yorker

Full article here.

"You may have heard it, if not of it: Trent Reznor made prominent use of one on the soundtrack of 'The Social Network,' the Facebook film. The DVD, out this week, includes a bonus segment in which Reznor talks about the Swarmatron’s 'beehive-ish sound.' The sound of eight voices straining toward but not quite achieving a unity of pitch, the dissonance stretching like taffy, seems perfectly suited to these attenuated times."

via the Big City Music blog.

NonLinear Circuits & Serge Creature Synths (swarm effect)

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by DJjondent

"Trying to get that swarming, buzzing sound ... dissonant clusters made famous by the swarmatron. I'm using 4 VCOs here. I think the swarmatron uses 8.

Serge creature and NonLinear Circuits synth. . Everything ( including the 2 sequencers & monotribe) is clocked fron the Serge Smooth/stepped generator."

NAMM & NOT NAMM - New Products on the Synth Front

Well, it's that time of year again. Keep an eye out on the NAMM label (added to top right menu) for everything NAMM and more. More in that anything new will get the label whether it's shown at NAMM or not. It's about new gear. Updates in this post will be preceded in red. Some already in below. See "The NAMM List!" link under the Twitter, Facebook, and RSS labels on top of the right to get back to this post later.

(A note on the top site menus: I removed the iPhone and iPad labels as they go up in posts every day now so you can find them there. eBay links are on the right, so I removed it as well.)

That said, the following are some of the things to look out for. If you have any NAMM info feel free to comment and/or send it in. If I missed anything, let me know! If you are going to NAMM, feel free to send pics and video in.

On the list:

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Ciruit Abbey - Gravity Well Demo 01

Ciruit Abbey - Gravity Well Demo 01 from Low-Gain on Vimeo.

"*Note: Turn on your subs and turn it up for full awesome bass goodness! Or listen w/ headphones.*

Just got my Gravity Well by Circuit Abbey today. I had to shoot a video. Holy crap this module is awesome! Some real Reznor type shit! Lots of Swarmatron style sounds. all things modular are running into the Gravity Well. You can get so much out of it by just tweaking the level/bias pots! Wogglebug stepped output provides some great clicking which interupts/interacts w/ the bassline running through the Well. Rest of the drums are from the ESX-1 SD."

Dewanatron on NPR's here & now

"'The Social Network,' about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is up for a handful of Oscars this weekend. The movie’s Nine Inch Nails soundtrack also got an Oscar nod for the soundtrack, in part thanks to an unusual handmade synthesizer called the Swarmatron."

Click on the "Listen to the Story" icon at the top of this here & now post, to the right of the date.

Pitch Black and Phallen - Filling The Void

Published on Aug 19, 2016 Pitch Black & Phallen

Some nice synth spotting in this one including a rare Dewanatron Swarmatron, DSI OB-6, Analogue Solutions Telemark-k, and more.

"A collaborative Process between two artist's Pitch Black and Phallen. Here you will find full performances and steady releases both alike from the Duo. This is also the launch to the first collaborative process "Filling the Void". Keeping an out for whats next from the two by subscribing and following on Instagram for weekly updates. IG- @Pitch.black and @Phallen

DP - Anna Franquesa Solano
Editor - Travis Bleen"

NAMM: "Me & Leon"

YouTube via LofiFreq | January 17, 2011 |
Analog Systems & Dewanatron
"I programed the analogue systems 8500 and Mr Leon Dewan solos on his AMAZING swarmatron.

ENJOY!
NAMM2011"

"The Swarm" Free Noise Drone Synth

YouTube Uploaded by Resodeus on Mar 9, 2011

"It gets loud at moments, so watch your speaker volume : A demo of the new free standalone synth "The Swarm". Rather unique compared to most other free synths available (Mac too!). I really enjoy the deep tone. Inspired by Leon Dewan's "The Swarmatron". A good alternative for people who don't have several thousand dollars readily available. Obviously, this is no substitute for the real analog version but it does give the user a taste of the massive power of 8 Saws layered and detuned a bit from a central tone. Leon makes some of the most unique analog pieces around. Kontrolled by a Korg "NanoKontrol"

An impressive piece of code.

Check out : http://www.dewanatron.com/

Thanks to : http://www.synthtopia.com/content/ for a great RSS feed."

01 - How To Destroy Angels

01 from How To Destroy Angels on Vimeo.

http://howtodestroyangels.com/home.html
According to Amateur Chemist, this is Mariqueen Reznor and Trent Reznor's new project.
Teaser includes a KORG MS-20 and Dewanatron Swarmatron.
Click here and scroll for more posts on the Dewanatron including video.

02 from How To Destroy Angels on Vimeo.

03 from How To Destroy Angels on Vimeo.

04 from How To Destroy Angels on Vimeo.

Circuit Parade

via Joe of Circuit Parade:

"Circuit Parade is playing on Wednesday night at the Luna Lounge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Analog content: I'll be playing my PolyEvolver Keyboard, and Leon Dewan will be playing his home-made analog synthesizers: the Swarmatron (pictured) and the Melody Gin (for more info, check out Dewanatron.com). The band also features woodwinds by Mike McGinnis (The Four Bags) & cello by Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons). Incidentally, I've been enjoying the PEK immensely, and it plays an important role in this new "band".

Actually, I put together the whole night, and the other bands are very cool as well.

Info:
Unicornicopia 8 PM (Natalie Weiss' one woman set, with tape loops & samples, somehow melodic & noisy at the same time). Click on the link for a nice vocoder & ARP 2600 track that I produced.

Circuit Parade 9 PM (My band, don't have any mp3s yet)

Spray Paint Star 10 PM (My good friend Julian Maile's new band--features a Juno-60 and SixTrak)

Padre Pio 11 PM

Luna Lounge
361 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Thanks for the bandwidth,

Joe McGinty

http://www.joemcginty.com
http://www.myspace.com/joemcginty
http://www.carouselrecording.com
http://www.loserslounge.com"

All Dewanatron posts

'The Social Network' - Swarmatron with Trent Reznor of NIN

YouTube via seganandtara | January 20, 2011

Mutesynth drones

"Headphones on and shut yer eyes...

VCO Pulse via Moog Filtatron
Drone 1 & 2 & 4 via MuteSynth thru Filtatron
Electric Bass DI'd
Drone 3 via The Swarm
83.1bpm"

via Marc Coyles on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge (click through for more pics): "Having finally realised I'm never going to be able to afford a Buchla Skylab, nor a Swarmatron, I decided to invest in a pair of Collider / DirtyElectronics MuteSynth kits (£30 each) and spent sunday soldering them up... only took 2 hours! VERY pleased with the results, especially once whacked thru Filtatron on iOS, effectively using the MuteSynths as sample sources grabbed in realtime. Chucked this together with them"

DEWANATRON Documentary on Kickstarter - Chance to Win

"The documentary will trace the history of DEWANATRON as well as its place in music history and the history of electronic home-made instruments from the early 20th century to the Facebook movie. The film will be shot with our custom stereoscopic 3D imaging technology in order to capture the sculptural depth of the instruments, and to celebrate the DEWANATRON spirit of invention. The video we've attached is a short documentary shot and directed by Paul Yates, who will direct DEWANATRON..."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1123346089/dewanatron
Be sure to see the different pledge levels. One is for a custom built Swarmatron, the synth used by Trent Rezonor in the soundtrack for The Social Network.

"Lord of the Flies"- Mt. Olivet (Score for "The Machine")

YouTube Uploaded by TColeBartholomew on Aug 23, 2011

"Short film written and directed by Erik Parker release date unknown yet."

MT.OLIVET
Euro Rack Modular
Moog Little Phatty
Dewanatron Swarmatron

Alek Stark - Xmas Jam - Having a good time

Published on Dec 23, 2014 Alek Stark

"Alone in home, perfect time for a jam!"

Dewanatron Swarmatron in the dark. Buchla on the right.

NAMM: WNAMM10:The Swarmatron Is Here

via Sonic State - Dewanatron

DEWANATRON SWARMATRON - Handmade Miniature 1/6 scale

video upload by Ronaldo Lopes Teixeira ROLT