Folktek Family Portrait

via the Folktek Arts blog.

"Always good to take a family photo when these things all happen to be together at the same time.
Time Scape Sequencer, Harmonic Field version 2.2, Illuminist Garden, Mobius Harmonizer, Micro Garden"

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Folktek Arts Time Scape Sequencer/Garden Hybrid

via Folktek Arts

"A Hybrid remix work built on co-mission by Arius Blaze - taking elements of the time scape (with patchable keys of a time machine), sequencer synchable to the time scape, and a micro garden sized panel routed through the circuitry of a luminist (delay to wave reverb). A world of possibility and sweet sound generation built into a custom hardwood box."

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Neokitsch Showreel

YouTube via NeoKitschMusic
"This is a brief showreel of the activity going on at the NeoKitsch studio. It includes a few words from Danny Hahn, the director and composer for NeoKitsch, and there are clips of commercial, TV, animation, film and art visuals accompanied by original sound design, voice-over work, composition and foley work by NeoKitsch. The interview with Danny shows a brief example of the instruments used in the studio. Some of them include: Folktek synths - "Micro Garden", "Folkchord" etc, Roland MC-808, Haken Continuum Fingerboard, Omnichord OM 300, Korg MS-2000B, Moog Etherwave Theremin etc."

NeoKitsch - Haken Continuum and Violin

"Another improvisation by Danny Hahn and David Way at the NeoKitsch studio."

NeoKitsch - Edward Lear Nonsense with Haken Continuum, Monomachine and Viola Improvisation

"This is the first attempt at playing with the Haken Continuum Fingerboard in the NeoKitsch studio. David Way is playing the Viola and Danny Hahn is on the Continuum. Both Danny and David share an exciting conversation between violin, viola and unusual instruments, and they produce a large amount of music together for film, TV and for classical, Jazz and experimental music enthusiasts. Please visit the NeoKitsch website/blog for more interesting music, film, reviews, instruments and events at: www.neokitsch.com"

Space Kalimba

Published on Nov 16, 2014 Qi Meng

"Similar to Folktek Micro Garden, with kalimba interface. It can do tonal and atonal sound, perfect for playing sleepy ambience.

mengqimusic.com"

micro garden by folk tek

Published on May 19, 2015 pianoloft

"some metallic and cloudy soundscapes, realised wit the microgarden by folktek, combined with a korg kaos pad 2 to catch some live samples, a shifter-delay effect of the roland sp404 and the memoryman by electrvox and line6 echo delay.
http://folktek.com"

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Meet the Sonic Artist Making Music with Plants: Sound Builders

Published on Sep 16, 2014 Motherboard

"In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She's a sonic artist and environmental designer who's developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression.

Channeling a plant's sentience into an instrument is no obvious feat. Mileece's background as an audiophile and programmer dovetailed to turn a garden into an organic medium for music. She pulls this off by attaching electrodes to leafy limbs, which conduct the bio-electric emissions coming off living plants. The micro-voltage then gets sucked into her self-authored software, turning data into ambient melodies and harmonic frequencies.

It's simply not enough for these green little squirts to just spit out noise. All this generative organic electronic music must sound beautiful, too. As a renewable energy ambassador, Mileece's larger goal behind her plant music is to enhance our relationship with nature. And if plant music can have a pleasing aesthetic articulation then hopefully we all can give a greater damn about our environment.

While some may see the paradox in an organic medium generating electronic music, Mileece does not. She sees this as a symbiotic relationship, a vital one, and one that hints to a larger relationship she's been trying to unify, which is that between humans and nature."

The PPG 1003 "Sonic Carrier" - World's First Programmable Synth?

via Wolfgang Palm on Facebook
Be sure to see the video below.

"This was the first programmable synthesizer (1977)."

Programmable as in patch memory. The 1003 was a programmable monophonic synth with two oscillators, digitally controlled keyboard, and it was duophonic.

But was it the first?

Excerpts via Part 4 of the PPG Story:

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Folktek Mobius Harmonizer

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via this auction

You can find demos of one posted here.

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Folktek Mobius Harmonizer #1 = as created and played by Arius Blaze

Published on Mar 21, 2013 Sir Folktek·62 videos - video by Big Pauper

"A piece by Arius Blaze based on the original feedback harmonizer (http://folktek.com/instruments/electr...) , expanded upon in interesting ways.
Though shot well (thanks to Big Pauper), both mobius videos fail to capture the broader scope of capabilities and sounds. For more sound, photos and words go to the folktek site; folktek.com
or go directly to the Mobius Harmonizer page; http://folktek.com/instruments/electrocoustic/mobius-harmonizer"

Folktek Mobius Harmonizer #2 = as created and played by Arius Blaze, video by Big Pauper


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via Folktek:

"The Mobius is a concept piece designed to allow the playing of an acoustic sound source in an electronic way. Essentially, synthesis from acoustics similar in nature to the way the Folktek Garden series generates lush waves from micro sound.

The Mobius features four strings with a fretless soundboard driven into a delay capable of extremely tight, notated delay, to about a second and a half of near endless looping. The delay travels into pitch shifting, out to an amplifier that runs an internal spring reverb and back into the delay.
The pitch shifter can subtly or drastically shift the pitch to a great degree and has six playable keys designed to shift the incoming signal. Keys are additive so playing more that one at a time results in different pitch arrangements which allow for different combinations of pitch control within the master pitch (controlled by a master pitch knob). The original signal from the delay can be mixed with the shifted signal for more harmonic dynamics or played dry all together.

The spring reverb is not an overwhelming reverb but is instead designed to add depth and resonance to the sound - creating deeper, crystalline waves or generating waves of feedback. In longer delay modes where the repeats are near endless, the reverb will swell with each repeat, which generates, for examples, gradual waves where there once were very specific strong attack notes. Play with a bow adds an entirely new sound and dramatasizes the reverb feedback. There is an independant level control for the amplifier that runs the spring reverb.

In addition, there are 1/8" CV (+5v control Voltage) jacks to control delay time and pitch to synchronize with analog/modular synthesizers.

The result is an expansive work with a rich sound capable of endless sonic possibilties"