via Michael: "I'm doing a synth workshop + public intervention with handheld "synthpacks" in downtown Boulder - -"
"ArtDistrict is thrilled to present the work of multimedia artist Michael Trigilio the second week of July 2009. With more information to come, here's the skinny:
Michael is a member of the Visual Art/Media faculty at UC San Diego. A 2008 Whitney Biennial participant as part of Neighborhood Public Radio, Michael's video and sound work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
While in Boulder, Michael will explore sound as art and enable you to do the same with his synthpack workshop and public sound intervention. Learn to create your own portable electronic sound device, then take to the streets of Boulder and use those smokin' hot sythnpacks in a public sound intervention. {That's them on the left - click HERE for demo.}"
You can find more details, pics and links to media at ARTDISTRICT.
via the Moog Music newsletter: "Moog is now on Facebook and we've got an easy-to-remember URL... www.facebook.com/moogmusicinc Join the over 6700 Moog fans worldwide who are already using Facebook to connect to Moog and to each other. We're still loading up content, but there are lots of great photos, videos and more on our page already. Facebook makes it easy to share and discuss all this with your friends... and makes it easy to make new friends. It's all about the connections..."
You might remember the Monorocket custom euro cases from this post. You can find an interview with Steve R, the owner of Monorocket, on TRASH_AUDIO here. Note they are taking questions if you have them.
from the interview: "What do you feel is missing from the market with cases? Variety in features and pricing. That may sound cold, but this is a normal occurrence in the evolutionary cycle of any market. Apparently I wasn't alone. Monorocket is one of three companies producing cases that launched in June of this year. It was like we all appeared on the same day.I just found out that ModularWorld is already selling out of inventory and - good for them - it's a indication that there's still room for more vendors. Even though Eurorack has seen an explosion of module manufacturers, we've basically had one case manufacturer, with a couple of choices. All someone had to do was listen to the things that end users - like you - were saying (and watching you do things like screwing mults directly into unused space) and make the stuff they wanted." http://www.monorocket.com/ Monorocket on twitter: http://twitter.com/rtopia
YouTube via burblebeep. prior "This is how I Juno" vids here. "This is my entry in the How Do You JUNO? YouTube™ Video Contest. All audio was created and performed on my quarter-century-old, pre-MIDI, analog Juno-60 synth. Computer Museum Photo: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid" Update: note the LOL slider names of Tudor, Derbyshire, Subotnick and Babbit and the Bebe, Baron, Louis toggle switch.
YouTube via peahix "Now available for PRE-ORDER! The second of our newly remastered Orchestron discs, SOLO FRENCH HORN. As soon as we have 15 pre-orders, we'll go to press and start shipping. It's unlikely that there will be sufficient demand to do a second run of 25 of these discs, so your best bet is to buy as many of these as you need while you can! Any future additional copies will most likely be done as one-offs, which are twice as expensive to produce, and thus will cost twice as much.
PLEASE NOTE: This disc WILL NOT play properly in an Optigan! They WILL play, but the sounds will NOT be mapped correctly to the keyboard- they will be mapped mostly haphazardly across the chord buttons. Please don't order this disc expecting to easily use it in an Optigan. In the future we will be porting the Orchestron sounds to the Optigan- please be patient! :)
This is not a simple photocopy of an original vintage Orchestron disc, it's completely re-mastered and re-created from scratch, using the original sounds from the Orchestron master tapes. In other words, this disc won't sound 100% exactly like the original discs in every tiny detail. Specifically:
* Since there's usually no way to precisely identify the exact 2-second excerpt that was originally used from each sustained note on the master tapes (some of which can be 8-10 seconds long), we've simply chosen 2-second excerpts that sounded good in our editing situation. * Our French Horn disc has a little more low-end and a bit less upper-mids than the original. These can both be adjusted with EQ if you're trying to precisely duplicate the overall tonality of the original discs. * Our disc has a bit more white noise than the original, apparently an unavoidable result of the mastering process. * The loop joints on our disc are very smooth and for the most part don't pop/thud the way the originals do. * We've staggered the loop joints evenly across the disc (instead of placing them all at 12 o'clock), so that no two notes hit their loop joint at the same time. * Some of our discs may have very slight periodic crosstalk on some notes (mostly noticeable on higher notes), owing to miniscule variations in the center hole punching tolerance. Said crosstalk should be well within the acceptable limits that Orchestron users are accustomed to.
So, will our disc satisfy the absolute purist? Probably not, and we won't attempt to argue otherwise. But despite the differences, to the more casual player our disc sounds very much like the original. We're confident that you'll love the sound and quality of this disc, but if you're not totally satisfied, we're happy to offer a 100% money-back guarantee. This is a labor of love for us, and we want to make sure you feel the love too!
Since the original discs came in plain white jackets, so will ours. We will be replicating the original printed paper sleeves- spelling/grammar errors and all.
Soon we will have all eight of the original Orchestron discs remastered, as well as a few brand new titles. Stay tuned!
Smokes that are good for you...
