Buchla 200e Demo

click here for the demo via Nicholas Kent. This one is pretty different from most you have probably heard.

Jarre breathes again with Oxygene

"Back in the Seventies, as punk was snarling its way across a world that had not yet gone green, a different sound was heard."

"Now Jarre has returned to his roots, dusted off his aged but robust tools and for the first time embarked on a tour of indoor venues across Europe.

These keyboards and synthesisers look antediluvian but emit warmth and emotion when in the right hands.

'It's not nostalgia, it's not a retro way of thinking. It's just the fact that these instruments - in the history of music - are absolutely unique, like the Stradivarius, or the Les Paul Gibson 58, or whatever," he says.

'Those instruments are very sensual and organic and you can have a very poetic approach to it.

'The difference between noise and music is the hand of the musician.

'It's the reason why I wanted to present Oxygene, which I've never played before in its entirety in a concert, to share this experience in a different venue, with proximity to the audience, to share the experience with the audience in a different context.'"

Click here for the full interview by the BBC.
You can find tour info at the official Oxygene JMJ website. Looks like European dates only. Anyone know if he will be coming to the US?

Mochika live, bjork cover

YouTube via atomolab
"Hi, this a live set during practices for the upcoming Atomo´s concert. 2 Mochika sequencers + Kaos Pad."

Future retro Newt and Peitra patching

flickr by Paulkaiju (click for more)

sha101100 - Roland SH-101 and Eurorack Modular Track

via appliancide:

"The bassline is the 101 and everything else is the eurorack modular (Analogue Solutions, Bananalogue, Doepfer, Livewire & Plan B). The 101 is being clocked by the modular."

you can find the track here.

From 1860 - The First Sample Ever?

"For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words 'Mary had a little lamb' on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif."

Click here for the full article on the New York Times including the creepy audio.
via Retro Thing

two moog minimoog analog synthesizers

flickr by Yotsuba&!
(click for more)

full size

imfine

flickr by flower electronics

full size

KORG MS20

http://flowerelectronics.com/

Cloud Generator Expansion module (CGX)

This is an image of the MOTM Cloud Generator Expansion module LCD being tested. Some details on the expansion module:

"* 5 Expansion jacks, comprising:
SAW OUT
TRI OUT
CHAOS CV OUT - user defined DC voltage that is 'mapped' to one particular ChaosEngine element. So it's a wiggley voltage :)
PATCH SEL IN - when a jack is inserted, a negative voltage reduces the current patch # and a positive voltage increases the current patch #. -5V will be mapped to Patch #1, and +5V will be Patch #16 and intermediate voltages mapped accordingly.
AUX CV IN - a user defined CV input that can modulate a CG parameter, ie it has the same effect as 'turning the encoder knob' of that parameter. Mapped to -5V is minimum, +5V maximum, intermediate voltages mapped accordingly. 3U wide module."

See My Synthesis Technology... for more.

Orgon Enigiser - FutureRetro Revolution / Nortec

YouTube via bostich1
"Ramon Bostich working with Orgon Systems Enigiser and Future-retro Revolution (thanks to Jered Flickinger for the revolution modification).

www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundmachine
www.myspace.com/bostichpointloma
www.future-retro.com"