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MFB Tanzbär First Session by Jens Aderholz

Published on Sep 6, 2013 Jens Aderholz·82 videos

Update: Re-Published on Sep 7, 2013

"Erste Session mit dem Bären. :-) Viel Spass

Only the Tanzbär"

RIP Dick Raaymakers aka Kid Baltan

Update: new link and video below.

Gearjunkies wrote in to let us know Dick Raaymakers passed away this week on Wednesday Sept 4, 2013. He was a pioneer of electronic music,  primarily working with tape producing musique concrete.  Below is a video of one of his compositions with Tom Dissevelt posted here on MATRIXSYNTH back in 2009.  Be sure to see the Gearjunkies post as well for another video.

via Wikipedia: "From 1954 to 1960 he worked in the field of electro-acoustic research at Royal Philips Electronics Ltd. in Eindhoven. There, using the alias Kid Baltan, he and Tom Dissevelt, under the name Electrosoniks produced works of popular music by electronic means (which turned out to be the first attempts of their kind in the world).[1] From 1960 to 1962 he then worked at the University of Utrecht as a scientific staff member. From 1963 to 1966, together with Jan Boerman, he worked in his own studio for electronic music in the Hague. Then, from 1966 until his retirement in 1995, he worked as a teacher of Electronic and Contemporary Music at the Royal Conservatoire (The Hague) and since 1991 also as a teacher of Music Theatre at the Image and Sound Interfaculty, at the same conservatory..."

Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt 1959

Uploaded on Nov 29, 2008 schreu26·39 videos (originally posted here)


Update via Pierre Serné on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:

"More about Dutch electronic and tape music Pioneer Dick Raaijmakers, who passed away last Wednesday at the age of 83:
http://patchpierre.blogspot.nl/2013/09/rip-dick-raaijmakers.html
- The interview is in Dutch but has English subtitles

Also worth watching: "Intona",a music-theater piece conceived by Dick Raaymakers.
It was performed amongst others on October 17, 1992 at V2_ in 's Hertogenbosch."


Dick Raaijmakers - Intona (Full Version) (1992)
Uploaded on Dec 23, 2010 V2unstable·275 videos

"More info: http://www.v2.nl/archive/works/intona

"Intona" is a music-theater piece conceived by Dick Raaymakers. It was performed amongst others on October 17, 1992 at V2_ in 's Hertogenbosch.

Intona is the counterpart of the work Three Ideophones. If in Three Ideophones the loudspeaker has the stage, in Intona, it is the microphone that is given a chance to express itself. In music, microphones are normally used for reproductive ends, i.e., to record music as faithfully as possible. But there is also an alternative use, a more subversive one, stemming from the 1960s, when musicians ripped the stable, fixed microphone from its stand and mobilized it. Pop musicians did this during concerts, but so did composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, who made a number of microphones move like jet planes according to preset, plotted routes across the surface of a gigantic tom-tom. His intention was to create a new, "open" kind of music by submitting the movements of the microphones to compositional laws, thereby making them part of the whole compositional plan, not as a special effect but as musical instruments. The "microphonist" became an "instrumentalist." If there were a kind of Beaufort scale for measuring a microphone's degree of mobility and expressing it in values 1 to 10, 1 would stand for perfect immobility and stability, and 10 for extreme mobility or even total incorporeality. Numbers 1 and 2 on this scale would be reserved for recording the classical repertoire in all its splendor and glory. Above chamber music ensembles and symphony orchestras, the most sensitive microphones hang like so many motionless leaves on a tree. From this position, they can pick up the slightest sound made by an ensemble and save it for posterity. The mobility of these microphones should ideally tend towards zero. Modern composers like David Tudor, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage would score a 5, 6 or 7. Pop musicians, with their mobile electric guitars and microphones, despite their roughness, stall at just 4. The challenge Intona takes up is to bring the remaining numbers 8, 9 and 10 into the picture. One must realize that at a mobility factor of 10, a microphone will dissolve entirely and disappear into the void. This occurs in Intona, not only as a result of brute implosive or explosive violence -- there's no art in that -- but in the intention of playing the microphone as expertly as possible."

Broken Delay - d0 CV Disturbances Patch

Broken Delay - d0 CV Disturbances Patch from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"Second patch using the karplus strong feedback setting with the Mungo d0 dual channel delay. This time taking both sine outputs and one from the final output from the MakeNoise DPO (only sound source). One sine was running into the d0 delay line A, and the other into B. The clocking source was the MakeNoise wogglebug, using clocked and gate bursts out to create random gestures and clusters. The wooglebug clock was then sent to a mult which was then clocked to the 4ms SCM input, shifted and rotated, to skew the timing even more for dotted tails and decays. Both sine outputs ran into the Optomix, strike input via the S5 output on the 4ms SCM. The changes in delay time A/B from the random stepped output from the wogglebug. This is the second experiment using the d0 as the main processing source, which can generate some very interesting broken glitchy iterations in the feedback path. The entire mix was ran into a Eventide space pedal for light reverb effect.

http://mungo.com.au/d0.html"

via Richard Devine on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Tutorial: Intro to Modular (Part 1)

Published on Sep 6, 2013 Discchord·65 videos

"[Modular is not yet out, but will be on the 12th of September, more info: http://pulsecodeinc.com/modular.html ] Modular is a free Modular Synthesizer for iPad and iPhone, which offers a lot of modules as part of the free package. This is an excellent opportunity for me to teach the concepts of modular synthesis!"

http://discchord.com

Tutorial: Intro to Modular (Part 2)

Published on Sep 13, 2013 Discchord·66 videos

"In this tutorial I get into some slightly more advanced concepts about modifying signals to make a self-generating sequencer, and then a synth to use it! Modular is out now for iPhone and iPad as a free app, with all premium modules past & present available as a bundle for $5."

iTunes: Modular Synthesizer - Pulse Code, Inc.

SeekBeats 1.0 for iOS

SeekBeats 1.0 Promo


SeekBeats 1.0 - How To (introduction video)

Published on Aug 29, 2013 rugosotv·3 videos

iTunes: SeekBeats - Rodrigo Yanez

"PLEASE NOTE: REQUIRES iPhone 4S or faster. iPod Touch 5th generation (4 inch display) or faster.

Check the support page (rugoso.com/seekbeats) to see a 2 minute video, watch and hear for yourself what's it all about!

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Create 100% synthesized electronic drum loops that sound alive, noisy and musical.

Feel the freedom to tweak the sounds and be able to go back and forth by using snapshots. Also, find mutations of the whole sound instantly with one slide of your finger via the random function.

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SeekBeats has:

• Eight voices, each with different synth parameters and envelopes.

• Step Sequencer, with velocity for each step that can be mapped to different parameters.

• Randomizer: Mutate the whole sound of your drums with one slide of your finger.

• Snapshots: Feel all the freedom to explore with your sound, go back and forth by taking and recalling snapshots. Change the whole sound of your drums with one tap.

• Sound Banks: Load and save your favorite sounds.

• Supports Audiobus.

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Check these App Store reviews!

• "Excellent. I am very impressed ... I haven't been so instantly taken with a drum synth in a long time!" - The pantsome menace (Australia)

• "Supremely intelligent... This is really, really smart. It gives you a lot of options for randomizing several parameters in real time, as well as an excellent preset arrangement, and the node system seems very well thought out" - Twirling Erling (Canada)

• "If my current drum synth is a Cadillac, SeekBeats is a Bentley. It is so good, I'm making SeekBeats my new go-to drum synth/sequencer ... I am actually having a difficult time putting it down. Instantly addicting in a good way." - rG3P0 (USA)

• "Absolutely awesome and inspiring - This app is hands down the best and most inspiring beat making app for iOS... You'll come up with beats and experiment with different sounds in seconds. Love it!" - fiskenuno (Sweden)

• "This is the best iOS drum synth I've tried yet. It just sounds great. I'm hooked!" - Hypnosapien (USA)

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If you were thinking about getting a similar hardware drum machine, it would probably cost you hundreds of dollars, SeekBeats is just 3 dollars (USA), but this is the introduction price, so ...

Get it now!"

Next Generation Percussa AudioCubes Announced

via Percussa

"After spending a couple of years working on a wireless module, I'm very happy to announce the next generation AudioCubes.

You can now use 16 cubes wirelessly within a 30-50ft range without having to connect them with a cable regardless of how you use them (sensor, sender, receiver or topology). One cube acts as the wireless base station and stays connected with a cable.

The difference compared to the previous generation audiocubes is profound:
- Very high reliability and robustness of communication through custom designed and optimized wireless protocol
- Very fast boot up
- No loss in sensor resolution and great LED RGB data rate and response
- Freedom to move around with your cubes
- More cube interaction
- More potential use cases
- Easier to set up and less to remember

As from now, we'll only release new software applications for the wireless cubes, and we'll stop supporting software applications for the previous generation audiocubes."