Roland JP-08 Patterning Drum Machine Genome MIDI Korg Electribe Jam

Published on Dec 14, 2015 exnihilo415

"Roland JP-08 Patterning Drum Machine Genome MIDI Korg Electribe Jam

Genome Midi is sequencing the Roland JP-08 Bass
Patterning is doing most of the percussion and syncopated snares
Korg Electribe is doing the rest.

Giving a big thumbs up to the Patterning Drum Machine iPad app. It's useful to visually see different velocity values and how they relate to each other to create really interesting percussion."

iTunes:
Patterning : Drum Machine - Olympia Noise Co.
Genome MIDI Sequencer - White Noise Audio Software

"Water to Fire" - Roland JD-800 New Age theme

Published on Dec 14, 2015 SynthMania

"Entirely composed on the Roland JD-800. Seven JD tracks, recorded in GarageBand, nonetheless. Watch me go 'Jan Hammer' with the classic JD-800 'Wailing Guitar' patch at the end of the video... :-D"

Headphone Science - unsichtbares Übel - Numerology Track

Headphone Science - unsichtbares Übel from enpeg digital on Vimeo.

Another composition composed completely with Numerology.

Artist: Headphone Science

Song: unsichtbares Übel

Album: Raumdämonen

Label: Enpeg Digital

Cat#: EN53

Ascendant - Source Transmission - Numerology Track

Ascendant - Source Transmission (Psybient / Chillout / Slow Trance) (Source Transmission)

Published on May 22, 2014 NCIFiRestArter's Psy-Ambient Grove

"Dreamy ambient tune from Ascendant, part of their LP Source Transmission. Sweet chills."

http://ambientascendant.bandcamp.com/

All tracks were made completely in Numerology.

The Electronic Music Synthesizer in Mid-Twentieth-Century Science Fiction

Back on October 18, 2012 a post went up here on an article written by Nicholas C. Laudadio (of Life of Saturdays) on the role of electronic music, and electronic instruments in early Science Fiction. That article was only available to students with access to JSTOR.

Nicholas just wrote in to let us know the article is now available to everyone on academia.edu. You can find it here. Note you can scroll down to read when you get there. You do not need to login or create an account unless you want to download the PDF.

On a side note be sure to check out Life of Saturdays on Bandcamp, for Nicholas' latest release.  It's kind of cool to hear music from the author of the article.

From the article:

"'Music is born free; and to win freedom is its destiny. In the new great music, machines will also be necessary.' —Ferrurico Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music (5)

“'The growth of musical art in any age is determined by the technological progress which parallels it.' —Joseph Schillinger, 'Electricity: A Musical Liberator' (26)

Introduction.

When the ships descend on Devil’s Tower in the climactic moments of Stephen Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the humans greet the aliens not with tanks and howitzers as in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), but with a simple five-note motif plucked out on an Arp 2500 electronic music synthesizer.

Atop its formidable white-and-black dais, the large modular synthesizer not only dominates the scene visually, it soon proves itself to be the most powerful tool the humans have for communicating with the alien visitors. The synth literally establishes first contact and maintains it..."

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Emu Emax SE SN 028129

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"Fully Functional. Backup disk included. Missing button on the volume slider, but still works without it (see photo attached).

12 bit sampling synth

Voice architecture is subtractive, (i.e. Sample->VCF->VCA). A monophonic mode is provided."

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7 Minutes with an Ipad Synth - BeepBoop

Published on Dec 14, 2015 Synth Anatomy

"A strange noise-making device. A collection of blocks of signal processing that document the last few months of my meanderings, wired together to make excessive oddness. Kinda like an iOS monotron, but with the capacity for great evil.

Made from circuit models. Structurally, there's an antialiased oscillator, feeding a partially temperature-stabilised transistor-ladder VCF (which can be heated), feeding an interesting old pitch-shifter in full-feedback-fun mode.Plus an LFO for some movement, and AudioBus compatibility. Sounds vary from early Dr Who to world-ending cataclysms.

There are no presets because what you hear is determined by more than just the positions of the knobs. It's what you turned and when. There's no MIDI input because it would be entirely out of character; once you hear it, you should understand pretty quick."

BeepBoop is available for free here for IOS:
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/b..."