MATRIXSYNTH

UltraNova Sounds: Patches 1-45

YouTube via NovationTV | November 15, 2010

"Video showing Novation's UltraNova synth's first 45 patches."

RC CIRCUIT BENT BLACK SPACE ANALOGUE DELAY ECHO MACHINE

YouTube via djwidow420 | November 15, 2010

"A TOTALLY ONE OFF ANALOGUE DELAY UNIT FROM RESONANCE CIRCUITS"

Schwarzes Drohne

YouTube via waveshaper | November 15, 2010

"Droning here with some stuff."

Update: via mono-poly's modular blog:
"A little drone session with:

Synton Fenix XL

Lider-2 fx

Rhode & Schwaz UBM

Ensoniq Paris delay and reverb

ADM preamp with eq."

In the studio with Bryan Ferry and Maschine

YouTube via NativeInstruments | November 15, 2010
Roland Jupiter-8 and Yamaha VL-1 or VL-7 with reverse keys? at :37.

"Some impressions from the recording process of "Me Oh My" from Bryan Ferry's new "Olympia" album, featuring Maschine. Look out for a remix contest for another track on the album soon."

Drum machine playing on Octapad (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette | November 14, 2010
Great T-Shirt. :) Some pics below.
"Drum machine playing on Roland Octapad SPD-30. Performed by Franck Smith © 2010

Biography: Multi-instrumentalist and noise manufacturer using electronic devices, digital percussives, vinyls, anvils, gongs, sirens, drums, piano... also (un)known as Ijnveïq de Ernestine, Tlü Ejtko, Phrenq, Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg... Franck Smith runs the private recording collection Odiolorgnette and works as an independant artist in electronic fields, experimental audiovisual contexts and soundtrack production... Member of the dual electronic unit Zn'shñ and co-founder of audiovisual production Rosebruit...

On his Odiolorgnette collection Franck Smith publishes a catalog of hybrid recordings from personal studies on Pygmy polyphony, cartoon/video-game music to Butoh dance and Noh theater soundtracking via pure experimentation, noise and radical electronic... With Zn'shñ he recently played in Japan for a series of concerts in Tokyo around the cd release "Butoh sweets (Adventures in dance, flour and colours)"... With Rosebruit he works on new performances involving experimental VJing, film making and electronic music...

N.B.-- both Zn'shñ and Rosebruit are collaborative projects with visual artist and sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff.

Recent discographic works:
* Zn'shñ, "Butoh sweets" (odl.9173-659) 
* Franck Smith, "Théorème de point fixe" (odl.9173-658) 
* Zn'shñ, "II" (odl.9173-657)
 * Zn'shñ, "++" (odl.9173-656)

http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette
http://www.youtube.com/znshn
http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://znshn.blogspot.com
http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.rosebruit.com
http://francksmith.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/francksmith
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Franck-...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Znshn/2...

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

"Franck Smith" Octapad Roland SPD-30 drums electronics percussion Odiolorgnette drum-synth Biscuit Drum Machines"

Added to the Synth Ts post.

Grendel Drone Commander

Two pics via Zn'shñ

Jean-Jacques Perrey Biography

via Dana Countryman

"My biography on the legendary electronic pop pioneer, Jean-Jacques Perrey is finally out NOW!!!

This has been a seven-year project, and it feels so good to finally have my book completed, and out for sale!
It will be in stores soon, and also it will be on Kindle soon, but for now you can order physical copies from my web site.

The book is 312 pages long, and has over 250 photos and illustrations. This is the ONLY biography of this French genius, and I'm proud that Jean-Jacques chose me to write it.
I interviewed scores of Jean-Jacques' collaborators and friends for this book, including Angelo Badalamenti, Robert Moog, Gershon Kingsley, Don Dorsey, Vinnie Bell, Billy Mure, and many, many more.

You can view sample pages on the ordering site here:

http://www.danacountryman.com/not%20yet.html.

I hope you'll check it out."

Update: I originally had "Auto Biography" in the title. It's actually a biography. Title fixed.

BTW, this would make a great "stocking stuffer" for the coming holidays.

Novation Launchpad and MAX/MSP Game

YouTube via audibleobsession | November 14, 2010

"As part of my experimentation with MAX/MSP, I thought it would be fun to design and program a few games for my Novation Launchpad. Here's one of them I like to call "Speedpad". This is just a short clip of the game, but the game get quite difficult as the colors and speed increases with each level. Your score is recorded and there's a "Hall of Fame" (of course!). There's also some nice FM synthesis going on when you successfully hit the pads in time. I've got a few more fun games that I'm hoping to post soon and, as always, I'm glad to share the Patcher (just message me on YouTube). The background track is a little tune I made a few weeks ago, mostly with the Moog Little Phatty and a free Mellotron VST. Thanks for watching!"