"The Peasant is a banjo player, and so thought that it would be very interesting to use a banjo to control the analogue synthesizer. A number of years ago a pitch-to-voltage convertor circuit board, designed for guitar use, was purchased from fellow DIY enthusiast Harry Bissell. This pcb only used the bottom three guitar strings to extract the CV output, and so it was decided to expand the board to work with all five strings on the banjo."
If I had my own space capsule this is what I'd want in it.
Anyone know what that is under the Rolands on the right?
Update: answer in the comments. Also.. Note the two CSQ-600 sequencers on the top right and the CSQ-100 top left. What's directly above the SEMS? Update: PAiA 4700
Foreground: Moog Micromoog, Roland VP-330, Yamaha CS-5.
# Nicaraguan Cocobolo
# RGB LED backlight and clear acrylic wheels via Blind Date
"Bryan is known around the country to be one of the best to hit the keys. He also plays the drums, guitar, keyboards and sings background vocals. His most recent work has been as the exclusive keyboard player for Boys II Men. He has also played with Frankie "Double Dutch Bus" Smith, Sister Sledge, The Delfonics, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Ray, Goodman & Brown, and Blue Magic."
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The China Concerts (Part 8 of 9) - Jean Michel Jarre
YouTube via 9thenazeing. China’s First Post-Revolution Concert was a synth concert. 1981 with Jean Michel Jarre and featuring the Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesizer. You can see Jean Michel Jarre and the Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesizer at 8:01. Some general synth spotting as well. Via EHX.com, where you'll find a great image of Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthew showing the Mini Synthesizer in Russia two years earlier. These are fascinating views of history and how music bridged and you could say broke through cultures. You can read more about the Russian trip here.
Via EHX.com: "Jarre breaks the barrier and steps out into the audience with his Electro-Harmonix Mini Synthesizer, using it as a literal and figurative bridge between East and West"
video description: "Peking: October 21st and 22nd, 1981 & Shangai: October 26th, 27th and 28th, 1981.
... After two years of negotiations, the Government of the People's Republic of China agreed for the first time to officially invite a western contemporary musician to give a series of concerts in Peking and Shangai.
... On October 12th, a team of sixty musicians and technicians left Paris for Peking with 15 tons of stage gear in the plane's hold. A gigantic stage installation, one of the most sophisticated concert happenings yet seen, and the technical, diplomatic and human accomplishment of five triumphant concerts fired the Chinese public with enthusiasm.
... The film of the China Concerts retraces this unique adventure, and, with Jarre's music, illustrates post-Mao China: its sufferings, its beauty, its desire for modernity, its aspiration for liberty ... images captured in 1981, at a historical moment when it seemed China was opening itself to the outside world...
... In 9 parts. :-(" You can find the other parts here.
