Aliens Project Close-Up of the Week #47/10 - EMS VCS3 The Putney

via Aliens Project

Synthesizer-Symposium Cologne

via BERND KISTENMACHER

"I will participate on the "Synthesizer-Symposium" in Cologne on november 27th.

The event in Cologne will happen at "EMS - Electronic Music School". The organizers will also do an "Open Day" for all of you, which wants to get know their offers.

But this is not everything: in the evening, all participants wants to have some "party" after that long and "hard" day.

Also I will finish the year with another exclusive concert and also my colleague Mic "Moogulator" Irmer will perform there. The evening will finish with an exclusive DJ-Set from Bjoern Torwellen itself. He is one of the heads of EMS.

So you might expect some extracts from "Celestial Movements" and "Beyond The Deep" and eventual a little bit more...
I am also happy to announce, that my label "MellowJet Records" will also be there with a stand.

So meet and greet is always possible!

I hope to see you there."

Thomas Edision's Electronic Instrument?

Thomas Edision's 1888 To Do List. Click the image and check out the seventh line item. Would he have been first? Not necessarily. Check out 120years for a history of electronic musical instruments in list form.

TE image found on electro-music.com

Tangle of Potential

via ether^ra

"Buchla, Serge, ::VTOL::, and Folktek...a tangle of cables that suggests potential moments of sonic epiphany...the confusion presents new opportunity!"

Blacet Research Time Machine Bare PCBs Now For Sale

"Time Machines have not been available since 2005 but we get requests all the time for them.

For serious DIY builders. Check out our Bargain Basement Page:
http://www.blacet.com/bargains.html

Regards,
John"

lets go to namm pt2

YouTube via MOTMguy | November 19, 2010

"E580 resampling mini-delay"
follow-up to this post

Update: For anyone that couldn't get the video to play, it is also here:
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7743377

Quantimator Prototype: Prototype #3

flickr By g.p.macklin
"The third Toppobrillo Quantimator prototype was brought to life today. Between Bret, Josh, and myself we should be able to narrow down all of the bugs fairly fast. Let the bug squashing begin! Now the hardest part is going to be resisting the urge to write music. The Quantimator is really musical as soon as it is plugged into a patch and naturally it wants to be used in that context. It makes me want to play with it and not test for firmware issues. Hmm, I guess making some demos would be a way of working while playing.

So anyhow the image above is an arpeggio patch using the Quantimator with a Fonitronik Sequential Switch. The switch cycles between three notes which are output to an oscillator's pitch input. Modulating the chord selection with a control voltage adds a slight variation to the arpeggio.

Granular Matter"

See the Toppobrillo label below for video.

Using MOOG FILTATRON with a Modular Synth

YouTube via mootbooxle | November 19, 2010
If you don't know who MooT BooXLe is, click on the link above and check out some of his videos.
"The one and only Moot Booxlé (now with less hair) demonstrates how you can use Filtatron, the amazing new iPhone app from Moog, in place of a modular synthesizer's filter module.
This is made possible by another product - the iRig from IK Multimedia, which finally gives iPhone users a clean, uncomplicated way to input and output signals.

Other upcoming videos include:
- Using Moog Filtatron/IK iRig with guitar through an amp
- Using IK Amplitube + iRig with Rhodes electric piano.

The intro and ending music is "Space Theme" by Moot Booxlé."


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Jupiter III + TCM + LSD

YouTube via chamberofsounds | November 19, 2010

Chamber of Sounds on eBay

"Check out the new LSD (light sensitive delay) module hooked up to the Jupiter III and TCM. A tasty, analog trio, exclusively available @ chamberofsounds.com"

E560 - Frequency Shifter Outtake

YouTube via JohnLRice | November 19, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"This bit was just laying around "on the cutting room floor" so I decided to rescue it. ;-) It is a short test of the new Synth Tech E560 Deflector Shield Eurorack synth module in frequency shift mode.

Look for several more tests/demos I'll be doing of this exciting new module."