Folktek Art The Luminist Garden

via this auction
See the Folktek label at the bottom of this post for more including video of The Luminist Garden.

"The Garden is a conceptual sound art work and a phenomenal instrument for extending micro sounds into waves or generating odd sounds based on an accoustic source. The Garden is a part of the electrocoustic section of the works of Arius Blaze. Please go here to see more: http://ariusblaze.com/electrocoustic.html

This work is an expanded version of the Micro Garden, capable of making lush choral waves and entire compositions as a standalone work. The expanded soundboard has multiple pick ups that run into the delay - which offers time settings from extremely tight notated repeats to about 1.5 seconds with undecaying feedback that essentially acts as a looper allowing one to make beats by tapping the board and plucking or rubbing the strings.


The delay runs into a very lush and unusual reverb that has the ability to act more as a wave generator, creating waves that can endlessly extend and are based on the original note but with the ability to pitch shift the feedback, resulting in something like the NI effect called "convolution".
The result is rich electronic music from an accoustic source. Sweet ambience. Stereo out.
There are sound samples on the blog page: http://folktek.blogspot.com/2010/01/luminist-garden.html, each a single take with no editing or external effects.

The feedback can be adjusted to generate long perfect extentions of micro sounds to become waves then captured in long format if desired. There is as much musical potential as there is a potential for strange sounds - bits of waves can be strecthed in real time and become distant-relative abstractions of themselves.

There has not been a single displeased buyer of the any of the Garden series - it is an extremely solid conceptual work with a huge sound.

This piece runs on supplied 9v power adapter, stereo 1/4" output to amp or mixer, custom folktek hardwood box with jointery, custom lamps and switch."

Folktek Art The Micro Garden

via this auction
See the Folktek label at the bottom of this post for more including video.

"The Garden is a conceptual sound art work and a phenomenal instrument for extending micro sounds into waves or generating odd sounds based on an accoustic source. The Garden is a part of the electrocoustic section of the works of Arius Blaze. Please go here to see more: http://ariusblaze.com/electrocoustic.html

The sound very much reflects the asthetic - an electric garden with waves growing from the sound field they're created from. The sound board and spouts of wire extending from it are picked up with high sensitivity and run through a digital delay with a very warm sound. This delay can be as tight as possible or extend to about one and a half seconds. Every sprig of string has a unique sound and the Garden can be played as a percussion piece or soundscape generator. The feedback can be adjusted to generate long perfect extentions of micro sounds to become waves then captured in long format if desired. There is as much musical potential as there is a potential for strange sounds - bits of waves can be strecthed in real time and become distant-relative abstractions of themselves.

the buyer of a previous garden on ebay had this to say: "Garden of Eden. You have quite outdone yourself w/ the Garden ! Simple and beautiful-a great idea ! I might say it's the best of yours I have. Wonderful work!". All who have recieved these works have been quite pleased.

This piece runs on a single 9v battery, 1/4" output to amp or mixer, custom folktek hardwood box with jointery, and the lamp glows white."

O-GAWA for iPad -The Future Beat Machine-

YouTube via yudoinc — April 07, 2010 — "O-Gawa (Ou-Gawa) is Yudo inc.'s first iPad musical application and fully makes use of the screen.

●What is O-Gawa?
It consists on touching objects synchronized with rhythm loops. Loops play back can also be designated.
The manipulation is really simple and is the best suited for real time performance.
You can also enjoy the visual effects made by the synchronized lines and shapes drawn with your finger on the top of the screen.
This "rhythm machine" using the iPad's environment has evolved into the best performance tool.
It is really helpful to make tracks using electronic and techno sounds."

Yudo Inc. on iTunes:


iPads on Ebay

"Duft Punk - Da Funk" nachprogrammiert auf meiner x0xb0x

YouTube via accenter — April 07, 2010 — "Eine der geilsten Basslinien aller Zeiten wie ich finde!!"

"DOM - Fackeln im Sturm" nachprogrammiert auf meiner x0xb0x

Rigs! Travis Johns demonstrates homebrew electronics Part 1

YouTube via RibosomeMatt — April 07, 2010 — "Travis Johns demonstrates his homemade electronics boxes, which use analog synthesis to create controlled chaos."

Rigs! Travis Johns demonstrates homebrew electronics part 2

"RibosomeMatt — April 07, 2010 — Travis Johns discusses building his own chip boards for his instruments."

Rigs! Travis Johns performs on homebrew electronics

"RibosomeMatt — April 07, 2010 — Travis Johns performs on his homemade instruments"

KAOSSILATOR PRO Demos

YouTube via VJFranzK — April 07, 2010 — KAOSILLATOR!
http://noisebug.net/

Update:

KAOSSILATOR PRO Demo Part 2 - Connecting Electribe!


KAOSSILATOR PRO Demo Part 3 - Final Thoughts

Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard, 2 sounds together using multimode

YouTube via johnsoncp13 — April 07, 2010 — "I upgraded my Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard to firmware version 1.15, loaded the free Easter sounds and used mutimode to demonstrate playing 2 sounds at the same time."
Blofelds on Ebay

Update via Achim, "the mute function probably isn't what he was trying to use. On the "receive" page 2/5 he finds the answer to his question of which parts the keyboard sends to: You can set "receive Local" on or off there (the graphics still shows USB and
MIDI from page 1/5)."

stribecompose

YouTube via soundwidgets — April 07, 2010 — "stribe controlling sample volumes - samples triggered by on-screen matrix"
See the stribe label below for more.

monome five twelve unboxing

YouTube via stretta — April 07, 2010 — "Personally, I think unboxing videos are fairly ridiculous. But, so then is the five twelve. Since there are only 10 of these things, and it wasn't a big deal to set up a camera, I decided to share this. Don't expect a music demo - this is just a first impression and plug in."

Ohm Studio real time collaborative music workstation

YouTube via OhmForceSoftware — April 06, 2010 — "Make music online with your friends in real-time with the Ohm Studio. Subscribe to the beta-test at http://www.ohmstudio.com ! Soundtrack by Versus, check their music at http://www.versusmusic.org"

This reminds me, I was playing Smule's Magic Piano on my iPad last night and decided to see what "Duet" mode was. It brought up a globe of the world that rotated to another player visualized by streams of light for each note played. There was a name "Sofia" on the bottom right of the screen. I was able to play along to this person. I have no idea if "Sofia" heard and saw my name while playing as well.

According to the Smule website: "
Play With the World!

Travel around the Smule Globe to find other Piano users. Select "duet mode" and Magic Piano will create warp holes to connect you with other Pianists.

To stay connected to a single individual, just say so, and play back and forth to your heart's content. Or just listen into other player's duets on the globe."

Magic Piano on iTunes