Sunday, March 30, 2008
Philadelphia 2006 Boredoms and their "Eye Ball" MIDI Controller
YouTube via shagasss. "eYe's Balls" via Alex:
"The two light bulbs have each a chip with a few sensors; the sensors detect movement, XYZ, shaking, velocity and proximity from each other. All these senses transmit this data as control messages to a laptop running unknown software. As the control messages trigger different sounds and events, it also sends corresponding electrical voltages back to the light bulbs, making the light bulbs react to the different movements. Really cool stuff!! I heard that a guy in Japan makes these, they're custom and only a few exist. As far as I know, there is no website for these things."
Old machines meet new
YouTube via Thirstmonkey. via Nusonica.
"Dubstep-esque techno jam with Vermona DRM-1 MK2, Futureretro FR-777, Roland TR-909, System100, TR-606, Ensoniq KT-88,Roland JX-8P DIN SYNC & Midi to synths via ableton live 6. Some sources are warped courtesy of the Schippmann Ebbe & Flut or passed through the effects channel of the ASR-10 sampler."
Technosaurus Microcon II analog synthesizer
YouTube via halmcgeevideo.
via Nusonica.
"This is my Technosaurus Microcon II analog synthesizer. Check it out as I take you on a tour of its features."
Switched-On Bach - Track List
flickr by timotheus.newbergfull size
"Switched-On Bach 1968
Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc. Presents. Virtuoso Electronic Performances Electronic Realizations and Performances by Walter Carlos with the assistance of Benjamin Folkman
1. Sinfonia To Cantata # 29 (3'24)
2. Air On A G String (2'31)
3. in F Major (0'39)
4. Tow Part Invention in B-Flat Major (1'28)
5. Tow Part Invention in D Minor (0'47)
6. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (2'58)
7. Prelude And Fugue # 7 in E-Flat Major (7'12)
(from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Side 2
8. Prelude And Fugue # 2 in C Minor (2'43)
(from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier)
9. Chorale Prelude "Wachet Auf" (3'37)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
10. Allegro (6'30) 11. Adagio (2'51) 12. Allegro (5'10)
(Total time 39'45)
Carlos Moog Modular Synthesizer
Bought the LP 24.10.1969 24 mk S:joki
To CDr 12.9.1999 (1st CDr from LP)
- MP3 24.9.06 (128) (3.3.08)
Cover photo Horn /Griner
Production: Rachel Elkind, Benjamin Folkman
CBS 63501
Can't remember anymore how I originally got any info of this legendary record, but I do remember how I found it at the Seinäjoki record Store and how I listened it before buying it. Even the trip to the city, dark evening and then how I was there with my 2 brothers, and how they left me into the record store and went to their businesses - and forgot me there... And how I was a bit scared when I realized that. (I was 17) And how they finally came to pick me up. (the last long Bach's Prelude nr 8 here - brings those memories over and over again...)
This record was very important many other ways. I took it with me to school and played during the music lesson and my music teacher liked it very much, so much that she wanted to play it in the morning prayer through the loud speakers to the whole school. That was amazing a moment for me!
Then I played it in our teenager dancing party at our school. Between the pop songs. Still remember how people were amazed to hear in-between Rolling Stones & Beatles something like this.
Trivia: The 1st LP I ever digitalized into CDr in 1999.
Trivia2: There's another version of the cover pic, where the wigged-headed "Bach" is standing."
Siel Orchestra
images via this auctionInside a Siel Orchestra
"These are quite rare , built by well known Itallian manufacturer SIEL in the late 70's . SIEL also manufactured these for ARP which is know as the ARP Quartet, which is exactly the same except the paint job.It is missing a few of the coloured caps.
Good if you want analog string sound and basic sawtooth sounds for cheap"
via ben
Some Notes on the Little Phatty ARP
via Amos on the AH list. This is in reference to the ARP demos in this post.
"Hi all; thanks for listening.The arpeggiator is a firmware feature of Little Phatty OS 2.0, which is currently in progress; I am testing it as we develop it.
It will start shipping with the new LP Stage edition version II, which should be out next month.
Once that's done we will release an update for all LP Stage Editions which will give them the new features; after that we plan to port it to the Tribute Edition as well.
Joe & other Tribute owners: it's looking like the new OS adds enough code that it won't all fit on the Tribute's smaller memory.
We'll make sure that TE owners can upgrade their memory so they can run the full v2 OS, and I'll see if we can do a "lite" v2 with as many features as will fit in the original memory.
The new v2 features include the arpeggiator, and tap tempo and MIDI sync for both the arpeggiator and the LFO. The arp can have its own internal clock, or MIDI sync with many different clock divider options, or you can clock the arpeggiator from the LFO. The LFO can now sync to MIDI with its own clock divider separate from the arpeggiator's (meaning a 16th-note arpeg synced with a 2-bar filter sweep, for example).
The arpeggiator has the following specs:
Patterns: UP, DOWN, ORDERED. (Random is planned but not yet implemented)
Modes: LOOP, OSCILLATE
Octaves: -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3
Latch on/off
This provides a lot of flexibility. Here is how it works:
Modes: LOOP means that the pattern is played from beginning to end, and then again from beginning to end (equivalent to a ramp wave driving a sequencer). OSCILLATE means that the pattern is played from beginning to end, and then in reverse back to the beginning (equivalent to a triangle wave driving a sequencer).
The Octaves setting is used to repeat the pattern at sequential octaves away from the original notes; 0 plays only the original notes entered, +1 plays the original pattern and then repeats it one octave up; -2 plays the original pattern and then repeats it one octave down, then repeats it two octaves down.
So, you can get the classic "Up/Down" pattern by setting Pattern = UP, Octaves = +1, Mode = OSCIL. "Down/Up" would be Pattern = DOWN, Octaves = -1, Mode = OSCIL. However, the fact that these settings are distinct from one another means that you can get some novel patterns also; for example you can have the notes you enter play back from highest to lowest (pattern = DOWN) but repeat this downward pattern an octave higher, and then again an octave higher (Octaves = +2)... and then reverse, playing the notes low-to high but repeating at descending octaves.
Pattern = ORDER is very nice also, as it allows you to arpeggiate notes in the order you play them, for more interesting melodic phrases. This also works in OSCIL mode, so that the arpeggiator will play a phrase in the order you enter the notes, and then in reverse order."
"Hi all; thanks for listening.The arpeggiator is a firmware feature of Little Phatty OS 2.0, which is currently in progress; I am testing it as we develop it.
It will start shipping with the new LP Stage edition version II, which should be out next month.
Once that's done we will release an update for all LP Stage Editions which will give them the new features; after that we plan to port it to the Tribute Edition as well.
Joe & other Tribute owners: it's looking like the new OS adds enough code that it won't all fit on the Tribute's smaller memory.
We'll make sure that TE owners can upgrade their memory so they can run the full v2 OS, and I'll see if we can do a "lite" v2 with as many features as will fit in the original memory.
The new v2 features include the arpeggiator, and tap tempo and MIDI sync for both the arpeggiator and the LFO. The arp can have its own internal clock, or MIDI sync with many different clock divider options, or you can clock the arpeggiator from the LFO. The LFO can now sync to MIDI with its own clock divider separate from the arpeggiator's (meaning a 16th-note arpeg synced with a 2-bar filter sweep, for example).
The arpeggiator has the following specs:
Patterns: UP, DOWN, ORDERED. (Random is planned but not yet implemented)
Modes: LOOP, OSCILLATE
Octaves: -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3
Latch on/off
This provides a lot of flexibility. Here is how it works:
Modes: LOOP means that the pattern is played from beginning to end, and then again from beginning to end (equivalent to a ramp wave driving a sequencer). OSCILLATE means that the pattern is played from beginning to end, and then in reverse back to the beginning (equivalent to a triangle wave driving a sequencer).
The Octaves setting is used to repeat the pattern at sequential octaves away from the original notes; 0 plays only the original notes entered, +1 plays the original pattern and then repeats it one octave up; -2 plays the original pattern and then repeats it one octave down, then repeats it two octaves down.
So, you can get the classic "Up/Down" pattern by setting Pattern = UP, Octaves = +1, Mode = OSCIL. "Down/Up" would be Pattern = DOWN, Octaves = -1, Mode = OSCIL. However, the fact that these settings are distinct from one another means that you can get some novel patterns also; for example you can have the notes you enter play back from highest to lowest (pattern = DOWN) but repeat this downward pattern an octave higher, and then again an octave higher (Octaves = +2)... and then reverse, playing the notes low-to high but repeating at descending octaves.
Pattern = ORDER is very nice also, as it allows you to arpeggiate notes in the order you play them, for more interesting melodic phrases. This also works in OSCIL mode, so that the arpeggiator will play a phrase in the order you enter the notes, and then in reverse order."
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