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Rare Stockhausen Interview - Electronic Music?

Title link takes you to a post on Audio Lemon featuring a rare Stockhausen interview. It is well worth watching. In the beginning of the video there is what looks like a keyboard (pictured here - note the time it comes in when you check it out). It doesn't appear again in the video. Does anyone know what it is? Also, this is probably blasphemy to even throw this out there, but I find it fascinating how he and other composers who primarily used traditional instruments are considered to be the pioneers of electronic music. I understand the music composed is very akin to music composed on electronic instruments, and of course many of these composers use electronic instruments, but is the music truly electronic in essence, and did they compose their music specifically as electronic pieces? The same goes for many electronic music events that oddly rarely feature the synthesizer. What do you all think? : )

The Augmented Sculpture Project

YouTube via Chebwa. Hopefully this will redeem the last post. A little... Not directly synth related, but I want one of these for my synths. I wonder what was used for the audio in this.

"Created by Pablo Valbuena, it mixes a "volumetric base that serves as support for a second level, a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time."

More info and a higher quality video here.

Finger Drums

yep...

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet live

YouTube via schafael. Interesting caption for the vid: "excerpt from live 1975 (famous fake)" Anyone know what the "famous fake" is in regards to? If you liked this vid also check out this.

Post Updates

In case you missed it, be sure to check out the following updates:

New Dry Samples of the Formant Kit Modular and links to scanned books with all the circuits

Navs' Modular Lab - The Clash of the VCOs! - New 24bit AIFFs (clicks removed)

Scroll when you get to each and look for Update in red. Don't miss these.

music to play in the dark

flickr by cray5656.

Click here for the full sized shot.

Another synth in the dark, this one via ghostdog in the comments of this post.

Guess the synths.

Quasimidi 309

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"It has the audio expansion which turns the 309 into a powerful production machine due to its capability to seperate the parts to their own outs. It has the drum expansion and the synth expansion. It also has the latest os 3.00a.

I've made with the 309, you can visit my myspace page: Listen to the song called (mini). The drums are the 309 and the synth parts are a polymorph. Believe it or not, I recorded this live and did not add effects or process it in any way. The 309 allows you to assign patterns to the 18 buttons (pads) on the sequencer, so you can set up a song and move through it live by pressing each pad as you progress. This is how I made this song. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't doubt the 309, it's not only alot of fun, but extremely powerful and versatile if you dig into it. These are pictures of the actual 309. The readouts show the os version, and the expansions, (I/O) = In/Out, (D) = Drum, (S) = Synth. Beautiful."