MATRIXSYNTH

Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao

Click here for a post on Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao. "I have just put on my blog an astonishing machine of Salvatore Martirano - American composer born on January 12, 1927 in Yonkers, New York, dead on November 17, 1995 - which I had taken in photograph in 1981 at the time of the international festival of Electronic Music, Video and Computer Art" The post includes an mp3 link, more shots and a link to The SAL-MAR Construction. Fascinating stuff. BTW, you might recognize the SAL-MAR Construction from this post.

Update via deb7680:

"Thanks Matrix. Attention, the MP3 is not Salvatore Martirano but duet HplanK with synths (RSF and Ems Synthi Aks), guitar and computers (Apple II and first IBM PC) which I created in 1981. I evoked Hplank because it is the festival of the Plan K in Brussels which gave me the idea of the name of HplanK.
For the meetings, since 1971, I work in the arts centres and as a critic musical in the newspapers. It is my work. I was likely to meet a great number of composers, Pierre Boulez, Xénakis, Pierre Henry Morton Subotnick, musicians like John Mc Laughlin, David Murray, Soft Machine, Cure, Jean-Luc Ponty, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, etc...
See this : http://www.deb7680.com/documentation/pierrehenry.pdf"

BTW, if you haven't already, check out Chroniques de la Mao for a lot more on these subjects.

More Synth Action on YouTube

Brain Damage - New Flickr Shot

flickr by lukas_y2k . Pink Floyd tribute band. Curious how that Korg X5D sounds. : )

Jen and microKorg - New Flickr Shot

flickr by simulacreant. According to the caption the microKorg was an anniversary gift and she's smiling about it. Now that is cool. : )

Korg Cake

This one sent my way via fred. Check out the cable. : ) Title link takes you to more shots.

Roland CMU810 on YouTube

Uploaded on Apr 30, 2006 f mass

"Roland CMU810 hooked up with a triplet of Roland System sequencers. The CMU810 is part of a wider Apple IIe/Roland Compu-Music (CMU800+CMU810) system that I finally finished to collect!"

This one in via fmasseti. "I have managed to hook up the roland cmu810 (part of a wider apple IIe/CMU800 set up) with my roland system 100m sequencing section." The Roland CMU810 is basically a Roland SH-101 minus sequencer and arpeggiator, but adds CV in. You can find more on the CMU810 on Sequencer.de and SOS. Note the image on Sequencer.de appears to be the CMU800.

Update: I sent this into AH. Brandon Daniel noted it also had some features of the MC-202. "But it also appears to have the LFO delay of the 202... with the noise
from the 101, but the 202's single waveform LFO. So somewhere between a
101 and 202, I guess."

Rhodes Chroma Poly-aftertouch

Title link takes you to a new addition to the Rhodes Chroma site - the original documentation from Fender on the Rhodes Chroma Poly-aftertouch. BTW, if you haven't checked out the Rhodes Chroma site, do it. It's probably the most comprehensive and active sites dedicated to a given synth.

"The Pressure Sensor is a fully programmable, polyphonic, after-touch, pressure sensor. With it, the performer can effect one or more notes, independently of each other, in a number of programmable ways. The degree of the effect is controlled by the amount of finger pressure applied to one or more keys after they have been struck. The Pressure Sensor can be used to bend the pitch, add vibrato, control sweep speeds, accelerate attack times, accelerate decay times, modulate wave shape width, add or subtract brilliance, and/or control loudness. Any one effect or a combination of several effects may be used in a program. The Pressure Sensor is truly polyphonic; only the note sounding from each pressed key will be affected. Also, the effect can be latched if the key or keys are released rapidly. For example, if a note is bent sharp and the sustain pedal is depressed and the key is quickly release; the sustaining note will stay at the bent pitch."

Unfortunately most Chromas do not have polyphonic aftertouch. Even without, it is one of the most expressive synthesisers ever made.

SCI Remote Prophet

Just a couple of shots pulled from this auction. You could strap this on for some keytar control of you Prophet 5. "This is a remote controller keyboard for the Prophet 5. It interfaces with the later Rev. 3 machines and allows you to strap it on and control your Prophet."

Electro-Music 2006 - June 2-4, 2006 Philidelphia

Title link takes you to more info.

"The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music."