Switched on Santa Trivia

See the bottom update to this post for an interesting bit of synth history.

Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals - Engineering Update

YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"Moog Senior Engineer Cyril Lance give a quick update on progress on the Taurus 3 Bass Pedals design."

Reactable Experience

YouTube via marcosalonso
"Reactable Experience demo at Sónar Kids, Barcelona 2009. Music by Carles López.
Video by Metromuster"

Violette & François (France 1977) ELKA Rhapsody and EMS Synthi HiFli

YouTube via cosmocorps2000
"Short scene from the french movie Violette & François (France 1977) which stars Jacques Dutronc and Isabelle Adjani as a young couple.

Plot:
François (french musician and actor Jacques Dutronc) hasn't a regular job and just work when he need some money.
Now he works in an music shop.
Bored by the his job, he prefer to play with an electric guitar an immediate damages an guitar amp.

Violette & François (France 1977)
Directed by Jacques Rouffio
Isabelle Adjani as Violette Clot
Jacques Dutronc as François Leuwen

Seen Instruments:
ELKA Rhapsody, EMS Synthi HiFli and at the end of the clip an MiniMoog and a lot of guitars etc.

The movie tells the story of the young couple Violette (Isabelle Adjani) and François.
Irritated by his former jobs, François becomes a thief. But after a few thefts he get's nabbed."

I added this one to the Synths in TV and Film post. Be sure to see the Synth Movies label below for more as well.

AudioMulch 2.0 - drum synthesis with SouthPole envelopes

YouTube via AudioMulch. Update: see this post for more details.
"From http://www.audiomulch.com/blog Demonstration of using SouthPole filter contraptions to synthesize kick and high hat sounds from white noise, and gate percussion sounds, all controlled by the Metasurface for rapid parameter changes."

1950s Jenny Ondioline Demo Record - Synthesizer Precursor

YouTube via jafafah0ts
"A vintage record demonstrating Georges Jenny's Ondioline tube-driven electronic instrument, an important but almost forgotten ancestor of the modern synthesizer. I've included English translation of the French-language narration in this video." flexi disc

Spirits Of The Temple Electric

YouTube via JohnLRice.
"This was a modular synth patch similar to the one used in my "They Don't Care What You Do" video. I was using it to play around with watching the output run through an oscilloscope to see what it looked like. I started liking the audio and I thought a video tape of the o-scope would be good enough for a quick and dirty YouTube video. Once I started playing around with video effects though, the whole thing turned into something breathtaking and mysterious! (IMHO of course! ;-)

Watch it once through as is and then go back at watch it again and randomly pause the playback in many places and you may be surprised at the images you see! I see different faces (human/animal/???), bodies, buildings, structures and cosmic landscapes etc . . . many with seemingly very iconic spiritual/religious overtones! I mused that by chance I had stumbled upon a way to view an alternative electronic dimension and the beings or spirits that live and rule there! (I sure do miss those old Outer Limits TV shows! ;-)

So, I hope you enjoy this. I may make a second version in the near future with the same music but just a selection of the images as a slide show so it will be easier to ponder and let your imagination run wild.

Thank you are taking the time to watch, rate and comment!"

ARP Odyssey MKII 2813 Final Test After Restoration

YouTube via Thalassa77
"http://switchedonsynthesizer.blogspot...

This is final test that I made to this ARP Odyssey after have finished the restoration.

I'm cheeking all sliders and also CV/gate control and the external audio input. "

Rectifier

YouTube via maertsemil
"Malgorithm Plague Bearer MFB PlanB LFO Doepfer 199"

Plagorithm

"MFB-02
Plague Bearer [flight of harmony]
Malgorithm [the harvestman]"

Gristleized Drone Commander

Untitled from Phillip Walker on Vimeo.

"This is a demonstration of a Drone Commander made by Eric Archer (ericarcher.net) being run through one of the new Gristleizers made by Endagered Audio (smashingguitarsasheville.com). The original Gristleizer was created by Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey (thanks Chris). Also involved in this piece is a cruddy stereo reverb made by Realistic."

Update: you can find more at loop12.org