via the BugBrandBlog
"Yes! A tour of Sweden with a brief jaunt into Norway.
Travelling with a 2Frame Modular.
Getting out to play, to talk, to meet.
The dates:
Tuesday 16th October - Club L'Amour @ Fylkingen, Stockholm
http://www.fylkingen.se/node/1663
A live show!
From 7.30pm - 80 Kr Entry
Wednesday 17th October - Presentation @ EMS, Stockholm
http://www.elektronmusikstudion.se/presentation-tom-bugs-ems-17-october-1830.html
A talk and hands-on demo session!
From 6.30pm - Free Entry
Friday 19th October - Dans for Voksne @ Sound of Mu, Oslo
http://www.soundofmu.no/
A live show!
Sunday 21st October - Lindblad Modular Meet @ Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg
http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67625 // https://www.facebook.com/events/182064561918595/
A modular meetup + demo!
From 3pm - Free Entry
Monday 22nd October - Lecture @ Academy of Music & Drama, University of Gothenburg
A lecture! (Open to non-students)
Free Entry
Friday 26th October - A show in Gothenburg
Details To Be Finalised!
Sunday 28th October - Ljudlek @ Inkonst, Malmo
http://www.inkonst.com/2012/09/19/tom-bugs-bugbrand-modular-synt-demo/
A talk, hands-on-demo, and a live show!
From 4pm - Free Entry "
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
10-Let's jam again ! Korg MS-20 sequenced by Plogue Bidule
Published on Sep 26, 2012 by GruithuisenCityMan
"Korg MS-20 Series :
Ten ways to have fun with a Korg MS-20
1-Basic Plogue Bidule polysynth passing through the filters of my Korg MS-20
2-Korg MS-20 acting very strange
3-Duophonic Korg MS-20
4-Duophonic Korg MS-20 (2)
5-Korg MS-20 complexely arpeggiated by Plogue Bidule
6-Korg MS-20 arpeggiated - Filters's resonance only !
7-FM-like sounds with a Korg MS-20
8-Crazy feedback loop with a Korg MS-20
9-Let's jam ! Korg MS-20 sequenced by Plogue Bidule
10-Let's jam again ! Korg MS-20 sequenced by Plogue Bidule
Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made in one take using a Korg MS-20, Plogue Bidule and Audacity. Enjoy !"
An Interview with Jon Appleton - One of the Creators of the NED Synclavier
via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full interview.
"APPLETON - I have the first and the second Synclavier but I don't play them. I am not sure they work. Sydney and Cameron and I developed the instrument first from something called The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer. It was my conception and their design..."
Check out the "all-star" pic below. You should recognize some of the names. Peter Zinovieff was he man behind EMS. Via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
Remember you can find all interviews featured on the site via the Interviews label below.
Mirador
Mirador from NormanBates on Vimeo.
"a super simple oscillator -from nicholas collins book- a 4093 chip with 2 ldrs, reading some videos of my likes collection. The first two from Guido Corallo, and the last one by Moritz Uebele. The three videos were originally silent. Sorry about the really poor quality, got to compress too much the original video to be able to got it under the 500mb restriction for the non plus like me.
un oscilador recontra simple del libro de Nic Collins, un 4093 con dos ldrs, pegado al monitor, "leyendo" algunos videos de mi colección de favoritos. Los dos primeros de Guido Corallo, y el tercero de Moritz Uebele. Los 3 videos eran originalmente mudos. La calidad deja bastante que desear, pero es que tuve que comprimirlo demasiado para que me quede en los 500 mb de límite para los no plus."
EMW WCS-1 Synthesizer
Published on Sep 25, 2012 by psprojectbrazil
"Playing the EMW WCS-1 synthesizer module using a microKorg and a reverb from a Behringer mixing console."
http://www.electronicmusicworks.com/
Synthesizing the Sound of Cloth, Garments & Fabrics
Motion-driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds (SIGGRAPH 2012)
Published on Jun 19, 2012 by DougLJames
Clothing sounds synthesized using the approach from our SIGGRAPH 2012 paper, and PhD thesis work by Steven S. An.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/Sound/cloth/
Steven S. An , Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner, Motion-driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), August 2012.
Abstract: We present a practical data-driven method for automatically synthesizing plausible soundtracks for physics-based cloth animations running at graphics rates. Given a cloth animation, we analyze the deformations and use motion events to drive crumpling and friction sound models estimated from cloth measurements. We synthesize a low-quality sound signal, which is then used as a target signal for a concatenative sound synthesis (CSS) process. CSS selects a sequence of microsound units, very short segments, from a database of recorded cloth sounds, which best match the synthesized target sound in a low-dimensional feature-space after applying a hand-tuned warping function. The selected microsound units are con- catenated together to produce the final cloth sound with minimal filtering. Our approach avoids expensive physics-based synthesis of cloth sound, instead relying on cloth recordings and our motion-driven CSS approach for realism. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a variety of cloth animations involving various materials and character motions, including first-person virtual clothing with binaural sound."
via Engadget
Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound (SIGGRAPH 2012)
Published on Jun 19, 2012 by DougLJames
"Acceleration noise sounds synthesized using the method from our SIGGRAPH 2012 paper.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/Sound/impact/
Jeffrey N. Chadwick, Changxi Zheng and Doug L. James, Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), August 2012.
ABSTRACT: We introduce an efficient method for synthesizing acceleration noise--sound produced when an object experiences abrupt rigidbody acceleration due to collisions or other contact events. We approach this in two main steps. First, we estimate continuous contact force profiles from rigid-body impulses using a simple model based on Hertz contact theory. Next, we compute solutions to the acoustic wave equation due to short acceleration pulses in each rigid-body degree of freedom. We introduce an efficient representation for these solutions--Precomputed Acceleration Noise--which allows us to accurately estimate sound due to arbitrary rigid-body accelerations. We find that the addition of acceleration noise significantly complements the standard modal sound algorithm, especially for small objects."
Published on Jun 19, 2012 by DougLJames
Clothing sounds synthesized using the approach from our SIGGRAPH 2012 paper, and PhD thesis work by Steven S. An.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/Sound/cloth/
Steven S. An , Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner, Motion-driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), August 2012.
Abstract: We present a practical data-driven method for automatically synthesizing plausible soundtracks for physics-based cloth animations running at graphics rates. Given a cloth animation, we analyze the deformations and use motion events to drive crumpling and friction sound models estimated from cloth measurements. We synthesize a low-quality sound signal, which is then used as a target signal for a concatenative sound synthesis (CSS) process. CSS selects a sequence of microsound units, very short segments, from a database of recorded cloth sounds, which best match the synthesized target sound in a low-dimensional feature-space after applying a hand-tuned warping function. The selected microsound units are con- catenated together to produce the final cloth sound with minimal filtering. Our approach avoids expensive physics-based synthesis of cloth sound, instead relying on cloth recordings and our motion-driven CSS approach for realism. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a variety of cloth animations involving various materials and character motions, including first-person virtual clothing with binaural sound."
via Engadget
Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound (SIGGRAPH 2012)
Published on Jun 19, 2012 by DougLJames
"Acceleration noise sounds synthesized using the method from our SIGGRAPH 2012 paper.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/Sound/impact/
Jeffrey N. Chadwick, Changxi Zheng and Doug L. James, Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), August 2012.
ABSTRACT: We introduce an efficient method for synthesizing acceleration noise--sound produced when an object experiences abrupt rigidbody acceleration due to collisions or other contact events. We approach this in two main steps. First, we estimate continuous contact force profiles from rigid-body impulses using a simple model based on Hertz contact theory. Next, we compute solutions to the acoustic wave equation due to short acceleration pulses in each rigid-body degree of freedom. We introduce an efficient representation for these solutions--Precomputed Acceleration Noise--which allows us to accurately estimate sound due to arbitrary rigid-body accelerations. We find that the addition of acceleration noise significantly complements the standard modal sound algorithm, especially for small objects."
Kraft test drummie & Robert Plant Touch Interface
Kraft test drummie & Robert Plant from NormanBates on Vimeo.
Circuitbended toy with 4 drum sounds, changed the buttons contacts to car antenna and metal sponges -the idea is from Mateo Carabajal- playing along with a 555 osc -drawdio style- on a Plectranthus australis (aka dollar plant)"
You can find additional pics here.
Vintage 360 Systems Keyboard Mellotron Chamberlin
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via this auction
See the seller's other items for more.
"This is a rare one: a 360 SYSTEMS Keyboard. It was the first manufactured Rompler - a ROM-based memory that stored samples, just like a Mellotron or Chamberlin but without the tapes. It's very similar in sound, however, I know as I own both Mellotrons and Chamberlins.
Each sound starts and stops immediately like those tape instruments and has about 8 seconds of length; they were definitely using the new technology of the era to try to replace the Mellotron! This does have some extra features though, like transpose, a Mod wheel to add Vibrato, you can stack 2 sounds on top of each other, or split the keyboard. It's sexy looking and perfect on top of a 400 Mellotron, with an old Minimoog on top, as it has a flat top for stacking keyboards!
SOUNDS: Each sound was a set of chips you bought from the company, no stock sets. Some of them were VERY expensive and some were less so. Strings were the most expensive and desirable, which are included here. This keyboard has the following sounds installed (quite a good, useable set, more than typical on these).
FLUTE
NYLON GUITAR
ELECTRIC BASS
CLARINET
OBOE
LOW STRINGS
FRENCH HORN
BRASS
SAX1
SAX2
BACH TRUMPET
STRING SECTION
All these sounds are demonstrated on a clip I just recorded today - you can hear them- I tired to link here to SoundCloud but ebay will not let me. Look for a link there maybe, or send me a message; I'll send you the audio link.
The last sets you hear there (after the strings) are stacks - two sounds layered together. These really have a great sound, I've used it on tons of records, especially the French Horn sound, which is amazing."
See the seller's other items for more.
"This is a rare one: a 360 SYSTEMS Keyboard. It was the first manufactured Rompler - a ROM-based memory that stored samples, just like a Mellotron or Chamberlin but without the tapes. It's very similar in sound, however, I know as I own both Mellotrons and Chamberlins.
Each sound starts and stops immediately like those tape instruments and has about 8 seconds of length; they were definitely using the new technology of the era to try to replace the Mellotron! This does have some extra features though, like transpose, a Mod wheel to add Vibrato, you can stack 2 sounds on top of each other, or split the keyboard. It's sexy looking and perfect on top of a 400 Mellotron, with an old Minimoog on top, as it has a flat top for stacking keyboards!
SOUNDS: Each sound was a set of chips you bought from the company, no stock sets. Some of them were VERY expensive and some were less so. Strings were the most expensive and desirable, which are included here. This keyboard has the following sounds installed (quite a good, useable set, more than typical on these).FLUTE
NYLON GUITAR
ELECTRIC BASS
CLARINET
OBOE
LOW STRINGS
FRENCH HORN
BRASS
SAX1
SAX2
BACH TRUMPET
STRING SECTION
All these sounds are demonstrated on a clip I just recorded today - you can hear them- I tired to link here to SoundCloud but ebay will not let me. Look for a link there maybe, or send me a message; I'll send you the audio link.
The last sets you hear there (after the strings) are stacks - two sounds layered together. These really have a great sound, I've used it on tons of records, especially the French Horn sound, which is amazing."
Vintage Oberheim Logo Sticker
via this auction
See the seller's other items for more.
"This is an old (80s?) era sticker from OBERHEIM, maker of wonderful analog synths! It's their OBIE logo character, about 6-7" across maybe. I put "used" as it's not perfect, but almost new. Never been peeled or stuck on anything though!! Perfect for your OB-X OB8 OBXA or SEM Expander rig!!.."
My girlfriend is programming the Roland TR-909, making a House beat
Published on Mar 26, 2012 by HotMusic1
With a synth cat.
"More TR-909:
http://www.facebook.com/ricklampe
http://soundcloud.com/ricklampe-1"
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