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Live modular techno : sunken cities

Published on Sep 13, 2015 Maxime F

"Late sunday jam, starring the intellijel atlantis, shapeshifter and bastl grandpa."

An Interview with Barry Schrader

Hi everyone! As you know Barry Schrader will be giving his farewell concert at CalArts on September 26. The following is the beginning of my interview with him. I opted to post the questions and answers as they come in. New QAs will get a new post so you do not miss them and they will be added to this post so we have one central post for the full interview. This should make it easier for all of us to consume in our busy lives, and it will allow you to send in any questions that may come to mind during the interview process. If you have anything you'd like to ask Barry, feel free to send it in to matrixsynth@gmail.com. This is a rare opportunity for us to get insight on a significant bit of synthesizer history, specifically with early Buchla systems, and I'd like to thank Barry for this opportunity. Thank you Barry!

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Barry Schrader on KXLU's Trilogy, Wednesday, September 16

Barry Schrader, who's upcoming farewell performance is set for Saturday, September 24, will be sharing a selection of his works on KXLU's Trilogy program this coming Wednesday, September 16. Two electronic works featuring the Buchla 200 Electric Music Box will be featured.

Details follow:

Time: Wednesday, September 16 at 9:00 PM PDT (Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM UTC (GMT))

Place: KXLU 88.9 FM, Los Angeles, streaming on the web

For this show, I’ve selected a variety of works of mine spanning a 45-year period, most of which are not commercially available. The first will be a student work from 1968 for soprano and piano, Signature for Tempo, based on the poem cycle of the same name by Archibald MacLeish, with Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh, soprano, and the late Leonid Hambro on piano.

"Next will be two electronic works composed on the Buchla 200 (Electric Music Box) system."

"The first of these analog works will be the complete Death of the Red Planet Suite, featuring music from the 1973 film and second will be Moon-Wings from Moon-Whales and other Moon-Songs (1982-1983) based on poems by Ted Hughes."

"The second movement, Jig, from Dance Suite for Harp and Computer (1987), composed for and performed by Susan Allen will follow. This is presented as a tribute to Susie, who passed this September 7th."

"Finally, I’ll present two more recent computer music works, Monkey’s Magic Dance - Jumping Buddha’s Palm from Monkey King (2005-2007) [see this post here on MATRIXSYNTH for some details on the initial release], and Chinese Kaleidoscopes, from The Barnum Museum (2009-2012) [see this post], based on the short story by Steven Millhauser."

Time: Wednesday, September 16 at 9:00 PM PDT (Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM UTC (GMT))

Place: KXLU 88.9 FM, Los Angeles, streaming on the web

MOOG ROGUE Vintage ANALOG Synthesizer SN 5828

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Sequential Circuits Pro One Analog Sinthesizer J Wire SN 1014 with Original Patch Sheets

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"This is a vintage classic Sequential Circuits Pro One Monophonic Analog Sinthesizer from 1981 in excellent condition, everything works as it's supposed to. This is the J Wire Version Pro One. Original Manual is included as well as 64 sheets with the layout of the front panel and keys on boths sides of each sheet so you have a total of 128 pages where you can draw your own settings with a pencil, pen or marker. You can also make more copies of these.

This synth was serviced back in 2009 to have the keys cleaned and everything else working properly. It has ever since been kept in a smoking free environment and has never been taken out of the studio."

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Sequential Circuits Pro One

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Fun with Synthrotek MST EXPRESSOR Module - Craig Padilla

Published on Sep 13, 2015 Craig Padilla

"These are just a few fun ideas using the Synthrotek MST EXPRESSOR module (designed by George Mattson) with an expression pedal. This setup allows your feet to manipulate sound while your hands are doing other things!

For more information: http://www.Synthrotek.com

and http://www.CraigPadilla.com"