The Exotic Birds and the "Musical Computer"

Warning: click on the play button to launch. If you click on the title link or on the image around the play button you will end up on YouTube with a title to the video that will spoil the surprise. What's the surprise? Check out who the lead singer of the Exotic Birds is while you watch it. There is a bit on Thomas Dolby in the biginning as well. Funny how they continuosly refer to the synthesizer as a "musical computer."

via Tim Peters.

This Guy's In Love With You on YouTube

Doctor Bombay. "An electronic pop version of the 1968 Herb Albert classic done with vintage synths"

Synths spotted: Yamaha CS60, Moog Polymoog, ARP Quadra, Oberheim Four Voice, ARP Odyssey. I definitely missed a couple so if you spot something I missed post it in the comments. Anyone know what that second keyboard is and the one that looks a bit like a Moog Minitmoog but not quite?

Big warm hug to Stephen Teller, Doctor Bombay himself, for sending this one in.

Update via Stephen: "The second one is the Quadra. It's just reversed-like a negative. The lead sound flutey patch is an Arp Pro DGX. Maybe that's the one that looks like the minitmoog. I think you've got all the others."

Sherman Banner Cat

Trip. Sherman.be has a cat in their banner. Title link takes you there.

via David Vanderborn of DVDBorn.

Ralph Lundsten - Worlds First Polyphonic Sequencer and the Sexophone?

This one in via Magnus.

"Ralph Lundsten, 70 years old, started his electronic music studio in 1959. He lives in a pink house,a very pink house, in the Stockholm archipelago where he has his studio Andromeda. In the mid sixties he collaborated with a Finnish engineer, Erkki Kuriniemi, and built what probably was the worlds first polyhonic synthesizer with a sequencer. The Andromatic [pictured below]. It had 10 tone generators, some filters, and modulators. All analog. Erkki also built the Dimi-O in 1970 or 71. A synth with a tv camera where you played the music in the air,so to speak. This instruments made it possible to experiment vith interactive video techniques, e.g. allowing a dancer to create sound by his/her movements. He also built the Dimi-S. Dimi-S or "Sexophone" (Ralph Lundsten refers to this as the "Lovemachine") was a fun instrument for four players. Handcuffs and wires connected the players to the electronic unit, which measured the electrical resistance between all six pairs. When two people touched each other repeatedly, a sequence of musical tones were heard. With increasing skin moisture and contact area, the intensity of the music increased. All about the Andromatic and Dimi series here (pdf). Ralph Lundsten's site with pictures and VR panoramas of his house and studio here. Unfortunatley it is in Swedish but check the third and fourth link, Frankenburg, and Ralphs hus Andromeda studio. He still has the Andromatic in there as far as i can tell. Lower left in the left rack [pictured above]."


The Andromatic

Via the Andromatic and Demi Series pdf:

"In 1961 or 1962 I was invited by prof. Erik Tawaststjerna to develop the electronic music studio for the Institute of Musicology, University of Helsinki. Erik Tawaststjerna, the late professor of musicology, is perhaps best known for his extensive and definite biography of Jean Sibelius."

"I began to construct a modular synthesizer, after Moog brochures and transistor circuit manuals. It was to consist of a Generator Unit, a Filter Unit, and a Mixer, all built into a sound studio console. In it, I tried to experiment with every possible analog and digital sound processing circuit. Integrated circuits were not yet available (all early production went into military and space applications). But Philips made a set of epoxy encapsulated logic circuits, gates and flip-flops. These were used in the Generator Unit [pictured below], both in the audio range (square wave) and as digital control signals, all freely programmable with a 500-point pin crossbar matrix."

The Generator Unit

Skitz & Ruby

Ruby

Skitz


via Wirehead.

"Equipment pictured is a Prophet 600, Roland D-110, Korg EX-8000, Moog Liberation power supply (in rack), Ibanez DM-1000, Micromoog and Roland SP-808."

Severed Heads on YouTube

via sequencer.de. Roland, Korg and I beleive a Moog spotted.

http://sevcom.com

Doris Norton

Found this shot on VSE, and the following blurb and shot below on Discogs. If you know anything more about her, feel free to comment.
"She is the wife of Antonio Bartoccetti (Antonius Rex and Jacula) and the mother of Anthony Bartoccetti,best known as Rexanthony.
During the 80's she was sponsored by Apple Computer,and made a music program for IBM USA."

Marching MOTM - New Flickr Shot

flickr by GeschnittenBrot.

Dark - New Flickr Shot

flickr by stereodee. Moog Voyager Electric Blue.

Steiner Parker Synthacon - New Flickr Shot

flickr by moog55.