MATRIXSYNTH

Richard "Jeff Beck" Lainhart

YouTube via JCRUDESS — May 23, 2010 — "Richard plays a nice melody on Continuum over sone JR chords!"
You should recognize Richard Lainhart from the numerous posts here.

For those in Western Europe, Richard will be performing at the Avantgarde Festival running July 2-4:
".. not just music... our aim is to create a place… and an atmosphere where…like musicians who meet on stage to jam... well , other artists like… painters, poets, shortfilm-makers… visuals... find a space to "jam", to collaborate... on a screen , on a canvass…

… a retreat ... "chill area"... is very important ... intensive listening and viewing can be very exhausting....

…oh yes… last year we came across the element "Fire"… in a performance by Spanish and French artists ... this year we want to develop this idea a bit more… we have invited a french lady welder artist… "jam" with local craftsmen ? … "fireworks" ? not quite ... rather "works with fire " ...
and …well, the spoken word - the often forgotten spoken word ... a poet from Pakistan will be our guest this year and we hope that there will be an encounter of word artists... a sort of catalysation might happen ... or rather multiplication... yes, indeed… multiplication ..."

MorphWiz - Jordan Plays Somewhere Over the Rainbow

YouTube via JCRUDESS — June 08, 2010 — "Jordan plays 'Over The Rainbow' with MorphWiz, his soon-to-be-released iPad music app. This arrangement was inspired by the great Jeff Back and his version on his latest album 'Emotion and Commotion.' This app is the creation of Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier."

Jordan and Richards Rainbow ala MorphWiz

MorphWiz JR preview

"JCRUDESS — May 13, 2010 — An informal preview of MorphWiz. This original app is being created by the team of Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier. We are still intensely working away, but getting very close to being able to submit it to the Apple store."

Moog Takes Over the Mac Store

via @moogmusic

Moog Little Phatty and TouhOSC on iPad

demoin' out the new beast lynne - word up

YouTube via horchacha — June 08, 2010 — "lynne - named after darth vader's daughter

VCO
VCF
VCA
DECAY GENERATOR
WEIRD SOUND GENERATOR AS AN LFO
1WATT AMP
8 STEP SEQUENCER
TEMPO CLOCK
12V Power Supply
other things

can take external clock
or take the l out of clock and hit it

takes awhile to warm up
excess pilot lamps for benefit of BP

dave wright
www.notbreathing.com"

Noise Makers on addicted to noise

via addicted to noise, a new site on various noise makers (more below).

Pictured:
"Left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
Jomox M-Resonator, Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, DOD FX32 Meat Box, Bleep Labs Nebulophone
Behringer Xenyx 802, 4MS Autonomous Bassline Generator, Ciat-Lonbarde Tetrazzi Organus

The signal path is:
Tetrazzi Organ (stereo) > M-Resonator (stereo) > channel on mixer
ABG / Nebulophone > channel on mixer
FX send on mixer: Holy Grail > Meat Box > channel on mixer
mixer > amplification+sound!"

via Josh of addicted to noise:
"I've started up a site that's dedicated to doing reviews, samples, holding discussions and soon to feature video reviews of music hardware for experimental artists. Will be covering a lot of different devices very soon--for now the only review I have finished is for the DOD FX32 Meat Box, but I have plans to cover some of the Andromeda Space Rockers kits, the Ciat-Lonbarde Tetrazzi Organus, Jomox M-Resonator, etc, all in a fashion that will favor people of an experimental nature. I feel like this is a presence that is lacking amongst all the guitar effects demos on YouTube and on other sites; not enough thinking that strays from the path."

Multivox MX-2000 Duo Vintage Synthesizer

via this auction

"The MX-2000 is a rare 2 oscillator synth with some very meaty, very analog sounding instrument patches. Perfect for making screaming DnB style bass lines.It would take an extremely talented effort with such as absynth to even come close to the actual analog sound of this synth. Arguably the best find of my life. A true analog enthusiasts dream. Made in Japan in the late 70's. Monophonic 3 octave Keyboard. The Keyboard has a small chip out of the low A key and over the years a silver toggle that controls solo or unison has broken off."

Making Music With Sound Squares - iPhone App

"SoundSquares — April 28, 2010 — Check out this music made with the Sound Squares application. Sound Squares is a revolutionary polyphonic synthesizer for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch that puts a grid of musical squares right at your fingertips"

Note this is the iPad app featured in this post.

on iTunes here:

Super Mario Brothers Theme Played On iPhone/iPad - All Voices!

"April 05, 2010 — Here is me playing the Super Mario Brothers Theme on my iPhone using the app 'Sound Squares'

Here is the pattern:
G2 G#/Ab2 A#/Bb2 C3 D3 D#/Eb3 E3
F3 F#/Gb3 G3 G#/Ab3 A3 A#/Bb3 B3
C4 C#/D4 D4 E4 F4 F#/Gb4 G4
G#/Ab4 A4 A#/Bb4 B4 C5 D5 D#/Eb5
E5 F5 F#/Gb5 G5 A5 B5 C6

Check it out here: http://www.markvapps.com/soundsquares"

on iTunes here:

Pre-Acid 303 - Early Roland TB-303 Tracks

The subject of a TB-303 revival came up on the Analog Heaven mailing list. The discussion lead to some sharing the first tracks featuring the 303, including of course pre-Acid tracks. The following are a few of them including a couple by Alexander Robotnick I tracked down. They are in order of release by year ending with Phuture's "Acid Tracks", credited as the first Acid track ever, for good measure. Wikipedia on Acid. If you know of any others pre 1987, feel free to comment or shoot me an email and I'll add it to the post. I know there was a track which used the 303 as a traditional bass guitar, but I forget what it was.

Update: Two from Heaven 17 via Pea in the comments added to the top:

Let Me Go (12" version) - Heaven 17 - 1982

YouTube via 4urlisteningpleasure — April 11, 2009 —

non embeddable 2006 digital remaster here

Update: new Crushed by The Wheels of Industry vid (old one here if interested)

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