Stevie Wonder Pappa Was a Rolling Stone with talkbox

YouTube via BMZSOUL. Thanks goes to Failed Muso for this great find.
I'm guessing he's driving the ARP 2600 in the background.

Cynthia Programmer

"Back in March of 1977 the delightful Mr Serge Tcherepnin wrote a do it yourself article in Synapse Magazine for a handy control voltage "Programmer" module. Playfully he published it using the alias of Mr. "Arpad Benares" and now close to thirty-years later we are pleased to offer the very same Benares Programmer fully assembled in Modcan A-series banana format as a very limited edition!

Putting this wonderful nostalgia aside for a moment, this Programmer is a terrifically useful tool for your modular. Think of it as a Sequencer with five stages of four knobs each. You can access the stages sequentially, or individually, and in any random order of your choosing by either driving the Programmer to a specific stage with an input pulse or with your finger using its big sexy industrial crisp-action LED pushbuttons.

Each button has an individual Gate Output to activate other modules in your system, and there is a Common Pulse Out jack to fire your envelope generator no matter which of the buttons is pushed for traditional keyboard applications. Actually you can put several of these double wide Programmers in rows to form even longer keyboards!

For convenience the original design has been updated to include white Strobe Up and Strobe Down jacks. A fun new way of sequencing can be explored by putting different LFOs into both jacks at once - for push-me pull-you tug-of-war type rhythms and melodies like "three notes forward, and one back".

Programmers can of course be used to play four-part melodies or pre-programmed chords, but they are often used to control other various parameters of a large patch such as the cut-off frequency or resonance of filters, or the amount of lag, or or the speed of a clock, or the wave selection of a MiniWave module, or literally any handful of things that need to be pre-programmed for big sweeping changes instantly, (in a live performance for example).

If you need more than two hands for major shifts in your music, just Program it!"
Programmer on Cyndustries

coming soon: harvestman stilton adaptor

the harvestman

Matrixsynth T at the Expiramental Garage Sale

flickr by nebulagirl

See the complete set of shots for the event here.

Tonal Plexus TPX6s

YouTube via AaronAndrewHunt. sent my way via fischek.

"Here is a sketch using 2 main ideas. The first is a motive including the 11th and 13th harmonics, and the second is a sequence using natural 7ths. Sorry, the camera angle is not the greatest as it hides what my right hand is doing. The sound is 019 ChrchOrgn from the internal synth, with reverb setting on 07 (delay), all max values. This was a single take. See more at http://www.h-pi.com"

Chimera Synthesis BC16 Demo via MVL

mp3 here

YuSynth PCBs

Available at bridechamber.com

Roland TR-808 and a Chicken

flickr by drb3nway

Or rather a rooster.

Click here for one more shot of a TR-808 on a farm sent my way via Giorgio.

Cwejman-Doepfer-Livewire

YouTube via DavideModu

Cwejman-Doepfer-Livewire-2

Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - Loreley festival

YouTube via ArtBonVivant.

I'm guessing that's his stack of Quasimidi Polymorph's behind him. I actually saw Dead Can Dance live once.
"Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze was play at the "Night Of The Prog" on the "Open Air Festival" stage Loreley (Germany) on 18 July 2008. Another band there was Tangerine Dream."