MATRIXSYNTH

Mid Century Electronica

Mid Century Electronica from Atomic Shadow on Vimeo.

"A short piece featuring Hp sine wave generators, tape loops and ring modulators. re-mixed and produced by Steve Howell at Hollow Sun."

via Atomic Shadow:
"Entitled 'Mid Century Electronica' the piece made use of my dusty, tube HP sine wave generators, tape loops and ring modulators. I am very pleased that Stephen Howell of Hollow Sun agreed to produce and re-mix the track. Any day that you can collaborate with a man who has done sound design for Peter Gabriel is an outstanding day.

Here is how Mr. Howell described the piece...
'A short piece featuring vintage, tube HP sine wave generators, tape loops and ring modulators with a photographic homage to the early pioneers of electronica.... Daphne Oram in twin set, the impish Delia Derbyshire of the early BBC Radiophonic Workshop, several tweedy boffins in their music labs, Karlheinz Stockhausen and so many others. A different age when innovation and ingenuity triumphed over the many technical limitations of the age.

Abstract music soundtrack re-mixed and produced by Stephen Howell of Hollow Sun using traditional techniques in a digital age.'

Stephen has made some really unique Kontakt instruments using samples from my vintage equipment. Check the Music Laboratory Machines section at his web site.

http://www.hollowsun.com/

TriOsc, Oscillosine, and Broken all started out as samples from the Atomic Shadow lab."

See http://atomicshadow.bandcamp.com for the latest two releases by Atomic Shadow. A future album titled "Twelve Full Moons" is due shortly after the first of next year.

I Dream Of Wires on SoundCloud

The makers behind the upcoming modular documentary "I Dream of Wires" has started a new SoundCloud group. Below is the first track posted.

20 Loops Cylonix Cyclebox (0101-Mode) + Moogerfooger by I Dream Of Wires

"Here is a demo created by Jason Amm (Solvent) of the Cylonix Cyclebox, a very unique digital VCO in modular eurorack format (http://cylonix.com). The sound is Cyclebox + Moogerfooger mixed together through an Intellijel Mutagen module, with no post-processing. I used a Mk1 Cyclebox here, since sold, although I now own a Mk2.

Here are 20 loops, self-generated via Cyclebox's 0101 mode, described by Cylonix as "Bitwise C-Element of OSC1 and OSC2 with OSC3 Phase Perturbation" - also described by another Cyclebox user as "Good as a chaotic but repetitive LFO". So just to clarify there is no external sequencing here - everything is self-generated within the Cyclebox. In each loop, the 2nd Cyclebox out ("Lag Out") is being used as a modulation source on 1 of the CV-inputs on a Moogerfooger. Three Moogers were used - the Freqbox, Low Pass Filter, and Ring Modulator. I don't remeber which was used for which loop, or what exactly I did to create any of these. But I can tell you that this kind of glitch/IDM madness was flowing out the Cyclebox with ease.

Please note: these sound recordings are the property of Jason Amm and are copyright protected. Please do not sample or distribute without permission!

For more info on Solvent:
http://solventcity.com
solvent
https://www.facebook.com/solvent"

Mark Mosher to Present Percussa AudioCubes at PNW SynthFest

via Pacific Northwest Synth Fest on Facebook:

"Mark Mosher – Intro to Percussa AudioCube Controllerism with Ableton Live

Electronic Musician, synthesist, composer, and controllerist Mark Mosher will be beaming into the Pacific Northwest Synth Fest from Boulder, Colorado. He’ll be telepresently performing and doing a talk on AudioCubes from 1:00-1:30. He’ll also be generally floating around on a laptop throughout the event so he can virtually mingle.

In his talk he’ll present an overview of the Percussa AudioCubes hardware, discuss mapping the AudioCubes to control Ableton Live and Virtual Synthesizers in real-time. He’ll also perform with the cubes, deconstruct a Live song, and discuss his free template for “9 Box Method for performance, improvisation, and spontaneous tribal jams with music, sound, and light” based on AudioCubes. Mark will take questions via interactive video chat.

For more on Mark visit:
http://www.MarkMosherMusic.com/
http://www.ModulateThis.com/
http://9box.ModulateThis.com/"

The event is this Saturday at Shoreline Community College in the general Seattle area. If you are in the area, be sure to drop by. Details can be found at the MMTA website here.

THE Science

YouTube Uploaded by FSK1138 on Oct 26, 2011

"WMD Gamma Wave Source out 2 ---input
korg monotribe sync out --1v/oct cv
WMD Gamma Wave Source"

Ipad App DM1 The Drum Machine Acoustic Demo

YouTube Uploaded by musicgearvideos909 on Oct 26, 2011

"Demo of the Acoustic machines the DM1 utilises for its sounds."

DM1 - The Drum Machine - Fingerlab - iTunes
iPads on eBay

LIDER-1 RARE SOVIET ANALOG GUITAR MICRO PROCESSOR SYNTH FX

via this auction

"LIDER-1 (produced by Formanta factory in 1982 - the one which made a legendary POLIVOKS) is a guitar microsynthesizer designed to be applied by guitar players who use external effects in the live performance or studio work. The synthesizer is a floor-mounted unit with four rubber footswitches; it also has sliders and knobs for changing the parameters of effects. LEADER-1 has 5 main series sections: MIXER, PHASER, FILTER, MODULATOR, and OUTPUT - every one with its own parameters and indicators. Commutation: line input, output (line, phone, amplifier). On the outer surface of the bottom panel, an input sensitivity regulator is situated.

Specifications:
— MIXER: rocktone 1/2 on, rocktone, suboctave, octave, guitar;
— PHASER: frequency, depth;
— FILTER: resonance, level, rate, start, stop;
— MODULATOR: decay, pedestal, attack;
— OUTPUT: AMPLIFIER/PHONE ON, EFFECT, SCALE.
— Weight, 8 kg (approx. 18 Pounds)"

SN 8612431

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Arp PRO DGX Soloist Synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by djskp on Oct 26, 2011

via this auction

Fluidus (session 9) feat. Familiar at Cincoechegaray

"Excerpt of the live performance of Malaventura with Manu Retamero & Sergio de Prado from the collective Familiar (famfest.info). Held at the Cincoechegaray bookstore in Malaga for a casual audience. Casio sk-1 & sk-5, Yamaha QY-10, 3 Nintendo DS, a doepfer monosynth, a mooger fooger, 3 Buddha machines and many more DIY instruments where the voices of this improvised jam that we called Fluidus number 9.
Download the entire session here:
archive.org/details/Fluidussession9FeaturingFamiliar
More information about this sesions at: malaventura.net"

Night tune (Virus TI, KORG R3, Ableton Live)

YouTube Uploaded by jeffdigit on Oct 26, 2011

"A tune I've in my head this evening. Hope you like it ;)
More slower tempo (90 bpm)
Sorry i cannot stop to move.

Access Virus TI: 2 parts
KORG R3
Ableton live (drum clip)"