Dave Smith Instruments "In the Spotlight with the Prophet 12" with Louis Faro

The seventh in the Dave Smith Instruments' "In The Spotlight with the PRO 2" series is currently up with Louis Faro here.

"Louis Faro is a full-time, professional pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and producer. He graduated from the Béla Bartók Jazz Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary in 1976 where he studied with Kornél Kertész and Gustav Csík. He began his professional career at age 17, later moving to Chicago where he played with such greats as Michael Manson (bassist for George Duke), Richard Patterson (bassist for Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Roberta Flack, Boz Scaggs), Chuck Webb (bassist for Stevie Wonder, Joe Sample, Ramsey Lewis), Kirk Whalum, and Martha Wash (C&C Music Factory).

Louis currently performs extensively in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. He continues to broaden his fan base with his energetic and compelling blend of jazz, r&b, funk, latin, and classical styles. His original compositions feature bold melodies and rhythms, a unique breadth of musical language, and a mastery of modern synth media."

You can find links to all episodes of DSI's Spotlight series here.

Dave Smith Pro 2- Rhythmic Sound Design

Published on Oct 27, 2016 iVardensphere

See DSI's interview with iVardensphere here.

"Hey crew! Today we have the Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2. This is, hands down, one of my favourite synthesizers of all time. It's extremely flexible and sounds stunning throughout the creative process. In this video I'm explaining how I use the machine to create rhythmic atmospheres to work within the context of my tracks. Quite often a track just needs to sound 'fuller' and I use the patches I create here to give them that missing depth.

You can hear much of the Pro 2 on my most recent release- iVardensphere: Fable.

This video is made in conjunction with Long & McQuade Music Instruments. If you'd like to try out a Pro 2, be sure to head to an L&M near you."

The Synth Sounds of John Carpenter: Halloween, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13

Published on Oct 27, 2016 Reverb.com

"John Carpenter has been a master of horror, suspense, and science fiction for 40 years, Directing cult classics such as Halloween, The Thing, and Big Trouble In Little China. But many do not know that Carpenter was also the man behind the soundtracks for nearly all of his films, often using synthesizers and keyboards of the day to craft sounds that are now synonymous with Horror and Science Fiction.

In this video, Justin DeLay shows us how to approximate three classic Carpenter themes on synthesizers of the day, and gives tips and suggestions on how you can be inspired to experiment at home, all while getting followed by a mysterious Shape...

0:00 - Intro
1:04 - "Halloween" Main Piano Theme
3:04 - "Halloween" Pads, Drums
4:45 - John Carpenter's Synthesizers
5:55 - "The Fog" Theme on Juno 106
9:00 - "The Fog" Pads and Bass on Moog and Prophet
10:55 - "Assault on Precinct 13" Theme
13:30 - The Shape Closes In on Mr. DeLay

Read More about John Carpenter and download our John Carpenter MIDI clip pack at: http://bit.ly/2eJO84L

Synthesizers Used:
Ensoniq ESQ-1: http://bit.ly/2eRPcAX
Roland Juno 106: http://bit.ly/2bORcHQ
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5: http://bit.ly/2bPIooc
MiniMoog Model D: http://bit.ly/2bD3ClM
Ableton Live: http://bit.ly/2coU2Zo
Roland 606: http://bit.ly/2dX7wtE

Hosted by Justin DeLay
Directed and Edited by Michael Lux
Photographed by John Gagen & Michael Lux
Eric Slager as The Shape
Sawyer Hildebrandt as School Buddy #1
Titles and Pumpkin by Eric Slager"

S U R V I V E: “Copter” (Official Music Video)

Published on Oct 26, 2016 Pitchfork

Some good synth spotting. And yes, they do perform with them live. If you get a chance to see them, do not miss it. It's a rare chance to see a full ensemble of synths performed live, and they are very, very good at what they do. I actually recorded some their live performance that I still need to review, and hopefully upload at some point.

Video description/credits:

"Directed by Chris Rusch

Edited by Melissa Cha

Aerial Cinematography: Sean Krell, Ryan Aylsworth, Willie Rockefeller & Derek Gildersleeve

Video Synthesis by Samantha Gibble

Produced by Relapse Records & Holodeck Records

Special Thanks: T.C. Johnson, Lindsey Reimnitz, Adam Schlender & Match Point Productions

Purchase CD/LP: http://www.relapse.com/survive
Purchase Digital: http://www.survive.bandcamp.com"

Stranger Things Intro Superfunk Prophet 5 remix

Published on Oct 27, 2016 AnalogSynth Musem

"NETFLIX Stranger Things Intro Superfunk Prophet 5 synthesizer remix"

New Synthesizers.com VPlug Introduction

Published on Oct 27, 2016

"A demonstration of the VPlug.

Hosted by Roger Arrick of Synthesizers.com"

One Synth Demos by doombient.music

Colin Benders Untitled broadcast. Multistreaming with Restream.io

Streamed live 5 hours ago Colin Benders

+3 hours of eurorack modular goodness. Enjoy. :)

Two Bald Blokes And A Buchla

Published on Oct 27, 2016 The Talkhouse

"In this video I'm talking to Reed Hays, a master of the mighty Buchla Modular Synthesizer. Don Buchla, who recently passed away, designed a unique and beautiful sounding Modular synth that Reed has been working with for twenty-plus years and I hoped to to learn, with Reed’s help and demonstration, how the friggin’ thing works.

–Vince Clarke"

See the full post on Talkhouse here.

ANGLE - Hold Your Breath (Maxime Dangles - repeat remix)

ANGLE - Hold Your Breath (Maxime Dangles - repeat remix) from Tiptop Film on Vimeo.

www.tiptoprec.com

www.tiptopaudio.com

Artist: ANGLE

Remixer: MAXIME DANGLES

Title: Hold Your Breath (Repeat remix)

Title Album: Hold Your Breath

Directed and edited by: Lorenzo Marchi, Piero Fragola

Release Date: 10.10.2016

Label: Tiptop Audio Records

Genre: Techno

Mastering by Tommy Bianchi @ White Sound Mastering Studio

Distribuited by Wordandsound

http://www.decks.de/t/angle-hold_your_breath/c7z-ct

https://www.beatport.com/release/hold-your-breath/1854636

This black and white animated videoclip elaborates the visual experiences of a distant past in a highly contemporary language.

This work explores the tradition of the Thaumatrope, the nineteenth-century optical toy acknowledged as a precursor of moving image media. It is a disk with a picture on each side, attached to two pieces of string, whose twirling creates the illusion of interpenetration of the parts.

In the videoclip, the soft oscillation of the disk is accompanied by the slightly hinted movements of expressive nineteenth-century faces, turning their glances into smiles or grimaces. These faces call back to humanity, while the music weaves the weft of a mantra; the insertion of abstract elements and geometric graphics moves the vision towards a typically electronic imagery. The flight of the insects on the disk at the ending becomes a metaphor for the living buzzes of the modular synthesizers’ sounds.

The short loops remind of both the patterns of techno music, with its obsessive rhythms, and the circular processes from the 19-century Thaumatrope which re-activate the visual impact through the digital-born animated GIF, by means of a fast and highly effective cinematic language. The audiovisual experience of the videoclip becomes a micro-object that intertwines several contemporary artistic practices, as well as recovering the heritage of the optical toys, suspended between stillness and motion.

Rossella Catanese