Dasi's Healing Chime - Ambient Meditative Buchla, Vintage Moog Modular & EML

"There are some who believe that all objects and places have a spirit inside of them. The Japanese have old folk tales about discarded umbrellas becoming lonely ghosts that haunt their previous owners. Many native tribes have ascribed emotions to the rocks and trees they encountered every day. Dasi is a musical collective that believes in such things..."

via Dasi: "We've been working on this record for the past year. it's a mix of my little 200e system, a small Moog modular circa 1969, an old 69' Electrocomp 200 and a small Makenoise/DIY system. There is a smattering of Roland Vsynth and bit of Gnaural for binaural beats which were both fed to the modulars for processing.

The guitars are mostly my 1964 Fender Jaguar with a infinite sustain circuit installed and a 1970s Gibson Explorer, Rickenbacker 12, and custom electric sitar also making appearances. also tons of 68' Fender Bass VI on the low end

The environmental recordings were recorded in Tazmania, Japan, and Mexico. Some of the ocean wave recordings weren't 'epic' enough so there is a lot of 222e ring work pulling waves in and out. oh, and sorry about the sound of me smoking cigarettes in the rainforest...i tried to edit them out but couldn't cut them without upsetting the rhythm of the forest crickets!

i know it's not the most Buchlidian bleepy bloopy album out there but hopefully it will give the 'can a buchla do tonal music' guys something to chew on!"

You'll find the release here and Dasi's Facebook page here.  Note this post was originally going to go up on MATRIXYSNTH-C, however I opted for a post here for the great synth pics below. Note the Qbert arcade cabinet top above the Buchla 200e!

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1st Batch of Tiptop Audio Trigger Riots

Some synth history in the making via @tiptopaudio

"The 1st batch of Trigger Riots are here! YES! #TriggerRiot pic.twitter.com/cVd2TBxsIw"

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Vallée (from Entrailles a film by Gregory Robin, music by Franck Vigroux)

Vallée (from Entrailles a film by Gregory Robin, music by Franck Vigroux) from dautrescordes on Vimeo.

Vallée (from Entrailles a film by Gregory Robin, music by Franck Vigroux)
ENTRAILLES
Franck Vigroux performing at Musée de la mine, Saint Etienne, France.
A film by Gregory Robin, 2012
Co produced by Hibou Production / Images Plus - Vosges Télévision / Compagnie d'Autres Cordes / Après la Guerre.
© Hibou Production / Images Plus - Vosges Télévision

OTO Biscuit, Elecktron Octatrack & Moog Voyager RME on top of Akai VX90.

Roland MC303 groovebox ambient chill electro jam

Polymerization mechanism --MIDERA-- Roland MC 303 groovebox ambient chill electro jam (Demo #3)
Published on Jun 18, 2013 acemonvw·38 videos

"Just picked up the Roland MC-303 on Friday (it's Tuesday). This is the third piece I wrote using it. I spent a while today on this little piece. Hope you enjoy it!"

One-off Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer with Factory Blue Case?

via the Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer blog  where you'll find more pics and additional details.  If anyone has any additional info on this leave a comment there or here.

"I’m convinced that the blue paint job is factory, though I’ve never seen another like it. It only has 4k of memory, as opposed to the usual 16k found in later machines. Also, it has a two-prong power cable instead of three prongs. There may be other differences lurking inside. I don’t know what serial number these started at, or how the numbering scheme worked, but given that only a few hundred of these were ever made, I’m sort of fantasizing that maybe 600000 could mean this was the first one off the line…? Who knows…"

KORG POLYSIX with Factory MIDI

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Pittsburgh Modular Bender Demo

Published on Jun 18, 2013 soysos·17 videos

"Demo of some if the various patterns possible. Top half of the Pittsburgh Modular Bender cross modulating with the bottom half and modulating frequency CV of the Pitts Filter. Saw wave of Pitts Oscillator is used as drone. That's it."

Modular Wild Visits IO and NMASS Synth Workshop and Modular Performances

Modular Wild Visits IO and NMASS Synth Build Workshop and Modular Performances
Published on Jun 18, 2013 Modular Wild·42 videos

"A short video of my visit to the IO and New Media Art and Sound Summit 2013 Synth Build Workshop and Modular Performances. I wish I had more footage but I was busy soldering :)
Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

Playing around with Thomas Henry Modules

Playing around with Thomas Henry Modules from fonitronik on Vimeo.

"Modules involved are the TH 555-VCO, the TH CMOS ADSR (with added stage gate outputs), the TH Controller LFO, the fonitronik ADC Sequencer, and the fonitronik triple vactrol resonators (prototype). A digital spiral hall module (Accutronics) helps to get the sound out in stereo..."

"The Sneaky Panther" - song with Synthesizers.com modular synthesizer

Published on Jun 18, 2013 SynthMania·250 videos

I created a split on the dotcom:
Right hand: a typical percussive, 1960s space-age moog style sound;
Left hand: a simple bass line triggered by the keys
Oscillators: dotcom Q106s, SSL 1200 vco;
Filters: dotcom Q150, Q107;
Sequencer: dotcom Q119