MATRIXSYNTH

"Bermuda Triangle" performed by 1969

YouTube via TorigoyaSound | August 27, 2009

"'Bermuda Triangle'
Performed by 1969
Composed by Minoru Yonemoto

1969 are

Minoru Yonemoto (birth Sep 14th 1969)
- Electric Handmade Instruments

Yuichi Onoue (birth Sep 17th 1969)
- Handmade Ribbon Controller, Analog Sequencer

'1969' is electric experimental music unit. The member of this unit must be born in 1969 ,and play handmade electric instruments.
In this video, Yonemoto plays handmade electric sound generator which is called "Machine No.3". "Machine No.3" is controlled(played) by 8 bit data which is generated by manually (not by micro controller).

Ribbon Controller is a kind of electric musicalinstruments. It can change a oscillator pitch smoothly, depending on the place which you press down. It was originally made as a kind of MOOG SYNTHESIZER's controller in late 60's. Onoue made this following its example. And playing style is self-taught.

Miyoru Yonemoto Home Page
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yonemino/

Yuichi Onoue Home Page
http://torigoya.main.jp/"

Yuchi Onoue(尾上祐一) plays the Ribbon Controller

YouTube via TorigoyaSound | September 01, 2006

"Yuchi Onoue plays the handmade Ribbon Controller - Electric musical instruments.
This video is Improvisation of Ribbon Controller at my home studio in 2005.

This handmade electric musical instrument can change a oscillator pitch smoothly, depending on the place which you press down. Ribbon Controller was originally made as a kind of MOOG SYNTHESIZER's controller in late 60's. I made this following its example. And playing style is self-taught.

This ribbon controller hooked up to simple analogue oscillator. The frequency of the oscillator changes in the value of electric resistance. Electrically, This ribbon controller is just an electric variable resistance. Not a midi box.

More Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos...

More Info:
http://torigoya.main.jp/ (Japanese)
http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html (english)"

Moog Music Inc. factory tour

YouTube via BrianWilliamGreen | August 10, 2010

"A quick walk through the Moog factory in Asheville, NC. This is Moog Central. It's all made here!"

via Brian. follow-up to this post.

The Circle Machine

via Dave on the SDIY list: "I've been working on building a working model of Raymond Scott's circle machine. I thought it would be fun to build something with motors and lamps.

The only information I have is the picture on the Raymond Scott site. I used a Hammond vibrato scanner base as the base for the circle machine and mounted it on a plate with 16 potentiometers around it. I only have 8 lamps installed but I have it playing an octave scale (the output is quantized). I've got a thread going on Muff's in the Music Tech DIY but thought I'd post a link here as well. I'm not sure how practical it is but it's kind of fun to watch. It's also been fun to prototype.

I'm using incandescent lamps, rheostats (e.g. potentiometers) and a CdS sensor. All the control and processing electronics are done in a microprocessor (I know it's not original but those are the electronics *below* the panel). This will be a stand-alone module as it takes over 12 watts of power.

Details, photos, and videos are at http://modularsynthesis.com/modules/DJB-circle/circle.htm."

Tubular Bells Birthday Cake

via Phil

"For my girlfriend´s 18th birthday, I made a nice music-cake, because she is an organist. I am very proud of my success^^. I know, it is not really a "synthcake", but it is similar. So I thought that you are possilby interested. The music on the cake is the beginning of "tubular bells" by mike oldfield."

http://www.cave-music.wg.am/

serge aug14 small.mp4

YouTube via zackdagoba | August 15, 2010

"for more info see: http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com"

Robert Rich Discusses Modular Synths

All parts now up in this post.

1Song1Week1Year - Week31 - Bonus

YouTube via DJDJSMusic | August 15, 2010

"Week 31 in my epic quest to write one new song each week for the year 2010.
Originally it wasn't going to be this week's song, but then I ate some bad Chinese take-out and wasn't really in the mood to write a "proper" song.
How ever it is a nice little song and reminds me of the first songs I uploaded to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p8yb..."

1Song1week1Year Week 32 Pong