Gnostic Rocket and The Springboard Dub

Title link takes you to Gnostic Rocket, a new blog on "Analog Synths, Circuit Bending, Music Production, Loop-Based Music and more. Brought to you by Gnostic Rocket, a Toronto-based experimental dub musician." Current post is on The Springboard Dub (pictured below) with samples. Interesting piece. I'm looking forward to seeing what else crops up. Check it out.



"This instrument is basically two cannibalized delay circuits, with bends added, built in a small piano-shaped cabinet (the unit is about 13" across, 18" high). There are springs in the cabinet where the piano keys would usually be."

Update via Doktor Future in the comments: "Hey , I listened to this guy (Gnostic Rocket) and this instrument at the Ambinet Ping in Toronto. Was pretty good. He backed it up with an electribe. It was a good set. He told me he paid a lot (can't remember exactly how much, somewhere between 2 and 4k CDN I believe) for that springie thing." Thanks Doktor.

The ANYSEQ

Title link takes you to a page on the ANYSEQ on sequencer.de. For those of us that do not speak German but speak English, here is a Google English translation. This appears to be a hardware sequencer by the folks of Anyware Instruments who brought us the SEMtex.

Moog Party Time - New Flickr Shot

Pikachu Possessed

Alright, this one would freak out my daughter. Via GetLoFi.

Roland SH-5 Modular - New Flickr Set

Title link takes you to more by unrest including Fenix and Serge modulars.

Willy D. Synth - New Flickr Shot

I think he has synth on his mind... Title link takes you to more.

Unisynth Electronic Guitar

No title link. Some shots I pulled from this post on Craigslist. More on the Unisynth Electronic guitar here.

Synth Buddha Says...

"Every human being is the LFO modulating his own health or disease."



I think mine is set to random. Title link takes you to more shots by The Genie Photos.

Dance Buddha Dance!

Ok, had to put up another. I just picture this little Buddha rocking out.



Make sure to read the captions when you get there.

Three Decades of Buchla

You are looking at three decades of Buchla in one gorgeous Buchla modular consisting of modules from the 100, 200 and new 200e series (who said you couldn't mix the 200e with older Buchla modules?). Title link takes you to a larger shot and one additional shot. Absolutly breathtaking. Note there is one non Buchla module in the system, a Milton Sequencer by Peter Grenader. Thanks Reed!

Update: Notes from Reed: "I decided it was time to put the greatest hits of all my Buchla systems into one easy-to-use configuration. It is basically all my personal favorites of the 100, 200 and 200e world, culled from systems that have come in & out of my hands over the past 12 years.

After I figured out the module configuration, I had the guy who did the metal ducting in my studio fabricate 7 "boats," in Buchla parlance, out of galvanized steel. Then my business partner Phil & I bought a router & some maple: plywood for the sides & solid pieces for the front. Learning how to use the router to cut curvy pieces of wood was fun. Phil did nearly all of the routing while I did nearly all of the sawdust-sweeping. We both did a lot of sawing. In the meantime, my long time technical guru Takeshi Kawana of Kawanatron built a beautiful power supply which weighs in at 46 pounds & sits separately from the maple cabinet. All 3 of us ran the various power wires & terminals throughout the boats, and I spent many nights installing the modules, replacing their power wires & terminals, and overcoming my 20-year fear of soldering.

I will not sell this. Most of the modules (except the 200e and some of the late-70's 200 stuff) have been an integral part of my music-making life for years, and ever since we first threw the power switch the instrument has been used every day in our television music business and almost every night after work when I stay & get wrapped up in the banana cords."