Celebration of Max Mathews and 50 Years of Computer Music

Image via wikipedia. Anyone catch the following? I found out a little late.

Update: check the comments for one more date on April 30 in San Francisco.

"Date: Wed, Apr 18 2007 1:46pm
From: "Computer History Museum"

CCRMA and CHM Present

A Celebration of Max Mathews and 50 Years of Computer Music

Fifty years ago, in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Mathews demonstrated that the digital computer can be used as a fantastic new musical instrument. He created a revolutionary software platform destined to form the basis of all contemporary digital musical systems.

His audacious ideas were driven by the belief that any sound that the human ear can hear can be produced by a computer. Mathews' mastery of this new instrument revealed new musical horizons and sparked a burgeoning curiosity into the very nature of sound. His comprehension and elaboration made five decades of art and research ossible, laying the groundwork for generations of electronic musicians to synthesize, record, and play music. Today at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a Professor Emeritus he continues not only to educate students and colleagues, but also to guide and inspire with his constant inventiveness and pure musical pleasure.

Join us in honoring Max for an afternoon of sound, celebration and discovery of his ideas,works, music, and writings.

WHEN
SUNDAY, April 29, 2007
4 p.m. Pre-concert talk
Jon Appleton, John Chowning, Evelyne Gayou, Max Mathews, Jean-Claude Risset
5 p.m. ìInfluences: A Tribute Concertî
Jon Appleton, Gerald Bennett, Chris Chafe, Evelyne Gayou, Max Mathews,
Dexter Morrill, Jean-Claude Risset
6:00 p.m. Reception

WHERE
Computer History Museum
Hahn Auditorium
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
www.computerhistory.org/about/directions/

REGISTRATION
Free.
To register or for more information on the event, please visit the Museum's
Website at http://www.computerhistory.org/max_guest_04292007 or Call (650) 810-1005."

via loscha.

The KORG MS-911

Another via Perry.

"This is a Korg X-911 that I have re-built to a modular synth. The original X-911 Guitar Synth actually contains much more than is obvious on the front pane"

Title link takes you to more detail.

Prophet5.org - New Prophet 5 Forum

Title link takes you there. The forum was set up by Stephen Jones of Sevcom and Synthwood. Note Stephen also recently set up Roland-Jupiter.org, previously posted here.

EMS Synthi AKS

Title link takes you to a couple more shots via this auction.

Update: Apparently this is the same one as my previous post. Doh! This is a good shot, so I'll just leave it up... : ) BTW, I've been up since 1:00 AM PST and it is now 8:23 PM PST. I had a 7:00 AM eastern flight from Hartford Connecticut back to Seattle. I got up at 4:00 AM EST which is 1:00 AM PST, so that's my excuse...

moogtouch1

flickr by sgodt.

MOOG Micromoog

The Synthi Micro

"This is a sort of clone of the EMS Synthi A. Well, not a clone really, since it has none of the electronics like the EMS, nor has it the complete amount of functions. It is also smaller then the original. I wanted a synth that could do the typical effect sounds that the Synthi A is known for. At first, I designed an even smaller synth, with a minimum of modules and functions, and no pin matrix. But after a while I realized this design would be far too limited, and I also wanted the routing capability of a matrix. So this is what it turned out to be. I used a lot of stuff that I happened to have laying around in the junc box; like the 10x10 pin matrix, a small reverb tank, CEM3340:s etc."

Title link takes you to the specs. Via Perry. Update: mp3s are now at the bottom of the page. You have to use the inside scroll bar to scroll down. There are also some really nice images.

Solar photosynth

YouTube via jonjb2a.

"Synthstick circuit with resistor replacing potentiometer. Circuit powered by three solar cells. Instrument has no moving parts; "played" in manner similar to that of theremin or tannerin, regardless of vast differences between it and the other instruments."

Solar powered?

via sendling

A Thingamagoop tried to look tough.

flickr by Dr. Bleep of Bleep Labs.

Thingamagoop in a cave...

waldorf-synth

flickr by erftmedien

The Waldorf Wave to be exact.

Update via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"... and it is my WAVE +16 (= 32 voice) shown here. A snapshot by someone taken during my last year's Planetarium concert of "EL-KA" (http://el-ka.synthmusic.info german only) in Bochum/Germany.
If you look to the yellow Waldorf Q in the back, you will notice the joy-stick someone added to my instrument.
Here is one from the other direction:
http://el-ka.synthmusic.info/el-ka_bochum_2006.jpg
You will see the other half of EL-KA there: HaJo Liese.
The CD recording is available at www.syngate.net and other EM music shops. And we will play at the Univercity of Eindhoven/The Netherlands next week's Saturday at the E-Day (http://e-day.groove.nl)

And by the way: I run the unofficial Waldorf WAVE pages located here:
http://unofficial.waldorf-wave.de (german and english)

keep on turning these knobs

Till "Qwave" Kopper"

KORG Poly61 Scans

Title link takes you to some scans of the KORG Poly61. Interestingly, the Poly61 had a discrete filter. I always assumed it was either an SSM or CEM filter, but I never had reason to look it up.

via Florian on AH.

Update: be sure to check out the comments for more info on the filter.