M A S F possessed pedal and more

Published on Nov 15, 2013 pianoloft·226 videos

"the 'possessed' is a handmade japanese pedal, constanltly picking up samples from a signal. those extracts are played back with randomly processed rates and repeats. it´s a kind of glitch delay. after half a minute you can hear it shreddering a drum pattern of the korg er-1, run through a MAM AFB8 filterbank. at the begin there is a reversed piano loop, cought with the korg kaos pad 2 and a soft pad sound from the roland gaia synth. later on a second regular groove is added, created with a korg em-1. the piano is a yamaha p-155. the main delay is an echo park by line 6. at the end of the recording there is a nice modulation effect, created with a programm of the echo park delay."

the postcard weevil and other strange sound devices

Published on Nov 12, 2013 pianoloft·225 videos

"the main instrument of this setting is the postcard weevil ( http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/ ), a very smart and small synth with a neverending range of sounds. there are 3 squarewave oscillators, which are combined in two ringmods. small dials - one is a starve dial - and body contacts alter the signal flow. there is also the noisebrick by dr. moonstien ( http://www.youtube.com/user/drmoonstien ), run through the rainbowmachine by earthquaker devices, and a crazy circuit bent casio keyboard with a great comics design, created by dementia labs:
( http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperRoss007 )."

the cracklebox and a noisy setup

Published on Nov 5, 2013 pianoloft·221 videos

"the first crackle box was used in the 60th of the last century. fingercontacts influence and create unstable sounds. info: http://steim.org/product/cracklebox/
the MASF SCM and two effects generate some destructive soundfields, the MASF pedal consits of an enclosure with a contact mic in it, There is a small hole under the mounted spring so the box acts as an acoustic resonator (http://masf.figity.com/pedals/scm). the sound is run through the Dod Fx 69B and the subdecay noise box. joyful noise !"

This is the first MASF post.

the magnetic bug is eating your soul

Published on Nov 1, 2013 pianoloft·218 videos

"the 'magnetic bug' by folktek ( hhttp://folktek.com/instruments/Insectan ) is one of the most extraordinary instrument i know. the oscillators interact by connecting magnetic contacts, creating a soundfield of permanent changing artefacts. there are also knobs influencing the tuning of the connections. the design is unique - wooden case, big old knobs and very special materials, creating a kind of individual character, as so as the 'plastic world' never took place."

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magnetic bug and omnichord by folktek

Published on Oct 31, 2013 pianoloft·217 videos

"combining the splittering sound of the magnetic bug with the melancholic character of the omnichord - both instruments by folktek: http://folktek.com/"

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circuit bending, voice and guitar

Published on Oct 19, 2013 pianoloft·215 videos

"combining circuit bent instruments (the magnetic bug and the modified omnichord by folktek), common devices (roland gaia synth, run through the boss slicer sl20 for the pulsating bass) with guitar and voice, improvising fragile sounds and songfragments, played by the new duoproject 'kraks'."

white silence - omnichord and zapcase

white silence part one _ the omnichord


white silence part two _ omnichord and zapcase

Published on Oct 15, 2013 pianoloft·212 videos

"useing the dam drum 2.0 by bleep labs, run through the alesis metavox, a casio sa-20, modified by dementia labs, which i call zapcase because of the special design with some trashy comics and the omnichord, modified by folktek, combined with memory man by electro-harmonix."

http://bleeplabs.com
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chaos never disturbs me

Published on Oct 13, 2013 pianoloft·211 videos

"a very nice setup, useing the dam drum 2.0 by bleep labs, a modified yamaha pss 100 (squidfanny), run through a pitch effect of the roland sp-404, a noise machine by dr. moonstien with body contacts to create screaming sounds, a casio sa-20, modified by dementia labs with an extraordinary outfit in an old suitcase and wonderful chaotic soundscapes and in the background sometimes a pulsating sound is doing its job, useing a sl-20 and a korg kaos pad."

crackling world

Published on Oct 5, 2013 pianoloft·210 videos

"a simple padsound from the roland gaia synth is run through the WMD geiger counter for some extreme bitcrushing effects, this crackling sound is further formed by a filter effect of the korg KAOS pad and the boss slicer SL20. the other soundscape is created with the omnichord, modified by folktek and run through rainbowmachi ne by earthquaker devices."

melting spaces of sound

Published on Sep 24, 2013 pianoloft·209 videos

"the setup: dam-drum 2.0 by bleep-labs, run through alesis metavox, dementia dm-1 by audible disease, run through AFB-8, alesis philtre and memory man by electro-harmonix, noise machine (dr. moonstien), run through rainbowmachine by earthquaker, noisebrick (dr. moonstien), run through memory man, and roland gaia SH-1 synth, which is not visible in the video."

nothing but sound

Published on Aug 29, 2013 pianoloft·204 videos

"touching different spectrums of sound, very psychedelic musictrack , useing the noisebrick synth, handbuit by drmoonstien, run through the memory-man effect device by electro harmonix."

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dark sound space

Published on Jun 28, 2013 pianoloft·201 videos

"i used a korg er-1, run through the weathermachine, a crazy noise-effect-device with body controls, handbuilt by dr moonstien, a korg monotron for some very deep frequences, the nebulophon by bleep labs, run through the memory man delay by electro harmonix, and rota synth by trax, combined with the shermen filterbank."

magic circuit bent soundshuttles

Published on Jun 15, 2013 pianoloft·199 videos

"most of the instruments are modified and handbuilt:
omnichord, modified by folktek, run through the analog filter of korg monotron.
little red synth by micheal rucci, run through a bodycontacted noise effect device built by drmoonstien and a delay, called memoryman by electro harmonix.
the weather machine by drmoonstien, sometimes used standalone, and sometimes distorting a drumgroove, created with the korg er-1 drum machine."

the omnichord by folktek watermusic

Published on May 8, 2013 pianoloft·192 videos

"the omnichord, modified by folktek, is surprising to me nearly every time, i use it. there is a delay (memory man) added to the original sound of that bizarre synth."

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monotron delay, rainbow machine and the magnetic bug

Published on May 3, 2013 pianoloft·191 videos

"the sound of the korg monotron delay is run through the rainbowmachine by earthquaker, and later on the magnetic bug by folktek is added, sounds like metallic splittering light."

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my zebra went to techno town

Published on Apr 16, 2013 pianoloft·189 videos

"starting with a phrase by rota synth ( trax ), run through the sherman filterbank. groove is
realised with korg er-1 and korg em-1. some noises and distorted sounds are created with a crazy and wonderful 6-step-sequenzer-noisemachine with a light sensor, built by drmoonstien (http://www.youtube.com/user/drmoonstien ). later on some chords are played with the roland gaia syth SH-01, useing a preset sound."

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the weather machine and a korg er-1

Published on Mar 21, 2013 pianoloft·182 videos


"a lovely noise machine with a wooden encloser, a really extraordinary design and a lot of soundpossibilities,handbuilt by drmoonstien (http://www.youtube.com/user/drmoonstien) .there are body controls for a intuitive handling, lfos and a theremin controlled vco. a single drum beat from the korg er1 is sent into that crazy instrument, called weather machine."

A bit steampunk in design.

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the dam drum 2.00

Published on Mar 17, 2013 pianoloft·180 videos

"the dam drum 2.00 is a 'pocket drum machine'. it was a limited edition from Dam Funk, useing the same hardware as the bleep drum by bleep labs. just the sounds are different. in the video the dam drum is combined with the gaia synth by roland and a stage piano by yamaha."

the nebulophone by bleep labs in action

Published on Feb 10, 2013 pianoloft·179 videos

"the nebulophone is a very small synthesizer. the concept is very clever, so you have a lot of possibilities of sound and musical structure. you can play melodies with the stylus, you can create arpeggios and small sequences, but also wild and chaotic experimental noise-eruptions. at first there is a melody in the vid, and later on some noisy stuff, where the instrument was run through a pitch shifter delay effect of the roland sp-404sx. other instruments used: the optical noise brick, handbuilt by dr.moonstien ( http://www.youtube.com/user/drmoonsti... ) and a sound of the roland gaia sh-01."

http://www.bleeplabs.com/
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magic drone _ a psychodelic soundtrip

Published on Feb 1, 2013 pianoloft·177 videos

"the "optical noise brick", a handbuilt synth by dr.moonstien ( http://www.youtube.com/user/drmoonstien ), run through the pitch shift effect of the roland sp-404sx. a lot of nice frequencies are created with that combination - a real psychodelic soundspace"

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