Todd Barton Transmissions II at The Dance Space in Ashland, OR

"Saturday, October 17 8pm.

 Studio A.B and Control Voltage Therapy present an evening of multimedia / interdisciplinary performance by Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard, with special guests Lawson Inada, Damon Honeycutt, and Christine Williams. Buchla Music Easels, video projections, movement, poetry, and voice come together in a creative melting pot. Each artist brings their own responses to a single abstract concept, that of the conveyance of ideas and information. They then create the evening's performance in the moment without rehearsal or prepared script beyond general agreement of sections relating to emphasis on word, movement, imagery or all at once. The collaboration produces an intriguing, surprising concordance.

Left to right: Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Damon Honeycutt, Lawson Indada, Christine Williams.

Lawson served as Poet Laureate of Oregon and has won numerous book awards including the Oregon Book Award, and the American Book award. Damon is currently pursuing an MFA in Music Composition at The Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has traveled extensively worldwide and has preformed with Pilobolus Dance Company. Christine is a classically trained singer and actor, and has performed at Barbican Centre in London, the Growtowski Institute in Poland, and eight seasons at OSF. She is currently developing her own form of solo music theatre. Todd was composer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for over forty years and is now creative consultant to Buchla Electronic Music Instruments. Bruce is a self-taught visual artist and video designer. Together, Todd and Bruce form the music performance duo Control Voltage Therapy.

tickets $15 general / $10 seniors + students
online brucebayard.com/tickets
outlet Studio A.B 621 A Street Ashland
 info 541-482-2253

Seating for this performance is limited and advance tickets are recommended.
A very special thank you to Medford Fabrication for sponsorship of this event."

For more information and tickets go to: http://brucebayard.com/2015/09/transmissions-ii-at-the-dancespace/

EMS Synthi 100 For Sale

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Note this one is from Analogue Solutions and is not yet working. You might remember the EMS Synthi 100 in a van and the decals posted here. This is that Synthi 100. Update: New pics added including a much larger version of the overall system to the left (click on it). Also there was no connection to John Carpenter. I might have misread John when the reference was to Tom Carpenter of Analogue Solutions who is selling it. I asked Tom how much of the system was original and he said, "Only really the cabinet is not original as the original one was destroyed."

Details from the listing:

"yes you read it right - Original EMS Synthi 100 s/n 16 (of around only 28 built)...

This unit is nearing the completion of full restoration -

I am finding it hard to dedicate time to complete this project due to running my own business and a busy family life. But I will complete it if need be!

At my work rate it will take at least a couple of years, despite that fact it probably only needs a few full time weeks to complete.

Selling this now as is is an opportunity for someone to jump the queue and avoid themuch higher price it will fetch when completed by me.

If you are after a Synthi100 - this could be the only chance to get one since most are now locked away in museums or private studios.

I am only looking to reclaim the total cost spent on this and will write off my weeks of labour time so far invested.

Sale price will be in the 5 figures, but significantly less then a completed unit. (I have been offered figures in the region of £60K for it when complete)...

Very briefly, to complete:
Final stage of the re-wire (estimate about 2-6 days to do that). Most of the wiring has been done, it's just the final leg. Double checking the wiring, then finally checking each card one at a time - to repair any dead components (dead due to age).

Essentially the synths is complete and almost no money needs to be spent on it other than labour time and any spare to fix any faulty boards...

Sale includes Full service documentation, plenty of EMS patch pins, original double keyboard, spares, cables - and a strong steel table if required."

To Build A Minimoog Voyager

Flickr set by Moog Music.

Moog mars musings part ii

"Back in January 2004, when NASA’s Rover Lander touched down on Mars, Todd Barton began creating and posting a one minute daily music composition based on that day’s image from NASA’s website. Using his new Signature Moog Voyager as the exclusive sound generator, a looper and an effects pedal he created 110 Moog Mars Musings tracks.

Soon after the first few posts Edmund Eagan responded with the idea of tying each score to a current Mars image. Near the end of February Edmund started to create and synchronize his video manipulations with the music and posted those on his site.

The mars musings project ran online every day from January 25 to May 14th, 2004.

Here are the second batch of 20 of the Moog Mars Musings project. More to follow over the next few months."

Part 1 here

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

Novation // Circuit - Performance

Published on Oct 6, 2015 NovationTV

"In this performance video, Calc takes us through just some of the functionality of Novation's latest release. Sequencing beats with the 4 part drum machine, playing in harmonic sections with 2 desktop poly synths, adding mixer and FX tweaks and browsing through 32 different performance sessions, allowing you to start something quickly.

For more information on Circuit, head to: http://www.novationmusic.com/circuit

Start something.
http://bit.ly/Start-Something"

Novation // Circuit - Performance Explained

Published on Oct 6, 2015

"In this tutorial video, Calc takes us through just some of the functionality of Novation's latest release by explaining in-depth his Circuit performance. Demonstrating that you can easily start something."

Roland JV-1010 90's Promo

Published on Oct 6, 2015 perfectcircuitaudio

Perfect Circuit Audio on eBay
http://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/

Two ELKA RHAPSODY 490 STRING MACHINES

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SN 508 & 1922

"TWO MATCHING 1970's ELKA RHAPSODY 490 STRING MACHINE KEYBOARD SYNTHESIZERS. BOTH POWER ON AND RED POWER SWITCHES LIGHT UP. ONE WORKS ABOUT 75%, SOME KEYS DON'T WORK. THE OTHER ONE JUST POWERS ON WITH LIGHT UP RED POWER SWITCH, NO SOUND. ONE KEYBOARD STRING LEVER SLIDE IS BROKE OFF, BUT CAN STILL WORK. BOTH HAVE ORIGINAL CORDS."

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5U Modular Synth / OP-1 / Volca Beats (it's a jam) #TTNM

Published on Oct 6, 2015 The Tuesday Night Machines

"So, I finally got the music bug again and played around with my setup. This time I'm jamming with the MU Modular, the OP1 and Volca Beats.

Questions or comments? Go ahead and post them below! :) Thanks for watching! Check out my channel for more Synthesizer Music.

Audio gear used:
- MU 5U Modular Synth (with Curetronic VCO, Rob Hordijk 24dB Filter, Happy Nerding FM Aid, etc.)
- Teenage Engineering OP-1 (portable super synth box)
- Korg Volca Beats (drum machine)
- Korg SQ1 Sequencer
- Tascam DR-40 Recorder"

Modular Day Barcelona - 4ms performance

Published on Oct 6, 2015 4mspedals

"Dan Green of 4ms performs at Modular Day Barcelona #2 at Hangar.org. Three Spectral Multiband Resonators and a vocal sampler are being used to generate all the sounds."

Knobtronix Knobbee 32: High Resolution, Ergonomic USB-MIDI Controller on Kickstarter

Published on Aug 26, 2015 Knobtronix

Playlist:
Knobbee 32
Knobbee 32: The Making Of
Knobbee 32: More information about the knobs
Knobbee 32: more information about the buttons.

Features via Kickstarter

"The KNOBBEE 32 has the following features:

32 soft-touch knobs
8 illuminated switches
1 expression pedal input
ergonomic spacing of the controls
sloped enclosure for comfortable access of the controls
class-compliant USB-MIDI and additional MIDI-out via 3.5 mm socket
bus-powered
7 bit (MIDI standard, 128 unique values) or up to 10 bit resolution mode (~1022 unique values)
compatible with Mac OS X, Windows 7-10
Arduino based (ATmega 32u4), including Open Source firmware and utilities
configurable via MIDI System Exclusive messages
editor configuring the controller (currently Mac OS X only)
utility for receiving MIDI and sending OSC (currently Mac OS X only)
dimensions including enclosure (W/D/H): 260 mm / 165 mm / ~45mm - 52mm
backpack compatible

"Hackability"

The KNOBBEE 32 is built with having tinkers and hackers in mind. You can modify our Open Source firmware we wrote for the controller (Atmel ATmega 32u4 / Arduino) or even put your own.

You can configure the KNOBBEE 32 via MIDI system exclusive messages. This includes aspects such as the resolution, MIDI mapping, behaviour of the switches / LEDs and calibration settings. We have written an editor in Max/MSP which provides easy access to those settings.

You can also buy the KNOBBEE 32 with our enclosure or order our enclosure design files and built your own enclosure. (It is not recommended to use the KNOBBEE 32 without an enclosure.)

Enclosure

We have currently two types of enclosures. One uses a combination of acrylic and wood (seen above).

The other uses only acrylic

If you buy the KNOBBEE 32 without an enclosure you'll get the fully populated PCB, all knobs (not shown) and the top plate so it is easy to integrate it into other enclosures."