Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Sound meditation - noise orchestra feat. Plumbutter, Boardweevil, Rin, Baoding ball, Chajchas, etc
Published on Apr 29, 2020 hajimmie
"Another meditative noise orchestra jam with various instruments."
ARPchivesLIVE!!! Episode I: Alex Ball
Published on Apr 29, 2020 Alan R. Pearlman Foundation
"Dina Pearlman (d'ARP) Executive Director of The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation visits (remotely) the studio of Alex Ball, documentarian and videoographer who created ELECTROMOTIVE: The Story of ARP Synthesizers." [posted here]
MIDIbox SEQ V4+ Midi sequencer w/OLED displays and 909 style buttons
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via this auction
"This MIDIbox SEQ v4+ is an amazing, 16-track step and morph midi sequencer with arpeggiator that can connect to gear via standard 5pin midi-din cables or a USB cable. It is powered by USB, I will include the cable. Also will include the pre-formatted SD card that stores all the projects and sessions.
The SEQ v4+ is only available as a kit (this one is from midiphy.com), but this one is fully assembled (by me) and works 100%. The buttons are special ordered '909 style' buttons. The displays are extremely high quality OLED displays.
This is similar to a cirklon in that it can serve as the center of your studio and has lots of midi ports. The advantage of multiple midi ports is lower latency. It has 4 assignable midi outs, and 4 sets of assignable midi in/outs. Also multiple USB assignable midi ports. As well as 'internal midi' that can be assigned to other tracks. It's very flexible and incredibly powerful.
(Note: In4/Out4 is wired to accept a future piece of kit that will be created by midiphy.com so regular midi in/out may or may not work for your situation. There are still tons of inputs/outputs to choose from.)
The display in the top left shows visuals based on what mode its currently in. There are multiple shift/button combos but also dedicated buttons for common actions. The OLED screens are readable at extreme angles and has a screensaver that is automatically activated to prolong their life.
The only way to acquire one of these sequencers is to purchase the pcb and case kit, purchase all the components, and then carefully solder, test and install the software. This unit has already been built, it's ready to use and has an all-metal, powder-coated case with screenprinted graphics."
via this auction
"This MIDIbox SEQ v4+ is an amazing, 16-track step and morph midi sequencer with arpeggiator that can connect to gear via standard 5pin midi-din cables or a USB cable. It is powered by USB, I will include the cable. Also will include the pre-formatted SD card that stores all the projects and sessions. The SEQ v4+ is only available as a kit (this one is from midiphy.com), but this one is fully assembled (by me) and works 100%. The buttons are special ordered '909 style' buttons. The displays are extremely high quality OLED displays.
This is similar to a cirklon in that it can serve as the center of your studio and has lots of midi ports. The advantage of multiple midi ports is lower latency. It has 4 assignable midi outs, and 4 sets of assignable midi in/outs. Also multiple USB assignable midi ports. As well as 'internal midi' that can be assigned to other tracks. It's very flexible and incredibly powerful.
(Note: In4/Out4 is wired to accept a future piece of kit that will be created by midiphy.com so regular midi in/out may or may not work for your situation. There are still tons of inputs/outputs to choose from.)
The display in the top left shows visuals based on what mode its currently in. There are multiple shift/button combos but also dedicated buttons for common actions. The OLED screens are readable at extreme angles and has a screensaver that is automatically activated to prolong their life.
The only way to acquire one of these sequencers is to purchase the pcb and case kit, purchase all the components, and then carefully solder, test and install the software. This unit has already been built, it's ready to use and has an all-metal, powder-coated case with screenprinted graphics."
MAM ADX1 Drum Synth Analogue Drum Machine SN AD10801008
Korg Polysix Keyboard Synthesizer SN 386962
Yamaha KX5 Remote Keyboard with Kramer Hard Case SN 01007
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via this auction
"Comes with a Yamaha breath adapter, two straps, a cable and a small MIDI box for unknown purpose. You get it as we got it.
FROM YAMAHA:
The Yamaha KX-5 is a MIDI controller (you connect this to a MIDI keyboard or sound module that you already own). These modules have NO actual sounds on board and are used for enhanced visual effect so a keyboard player can move all over the stage while playing with a band. [1] It was created by Yamaha in 1986.[2] It also featured a ribbon controller which could be used for pitch bend. It is powered by 6 AA batteries which has a run time for up to 7 hours.[3]
Yamaha KX-5
Manufacturer
Yamaha
Dates
1986
Technical specifications
Oscillator
None
Synthesis type
MIDI Controller
Input/output
Keyboard
37 Keys"
via this auction
"Comes with a Yamaha breath adapter, two straps, a cable and a small MIDI box for unknown purpose. You get it as we got it.FROM YAMAHA:
The Yamaha KX-5 is a MIDI controller (you connect this to a MIDI keyboard or sound module that you already own). These modules have NO actual sounds on board and are used for enhanced visual effect so a keyboard player can move all over the stage while playing with a band. [1] It was created by Yamaha in 1986.[2] It also featured a ribbon controller which could be used for pitch bend. It is powered by 6 AA batteries which has a run time for up to 7 hours.[3]
Yamaha KX-5
Manufacturer
Yamaha
Dates
1986
Technical specifications
Oscillator
None
Synthesis type
MIDI Controller
Input/output
Keyboard
37 Keys"
Zelda's Lullaby from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Piano, ContinuuMini and Xylophone
Published on Apr 27, 2020 MiniMan
"Love this piece of 90s nostalgia. Such a peaceful and beautiful song. Recorded April, 2020 in quarantine at my home studio in Philadelphia.
Harp - Treated Piano
Ocarina, Strings and Glass Harp - Haken ContinuuMini (www.hakenaudio.com)
Xylophone - Xylophone"
Zelda II - Palace Theme Cover on Synths (The Adventure of Link)
Published on Apr 29, 2020 GLASYS
"I recently played the NES Legend of Zelda games for the first time (they were the only ones in the series that I hadn't beaten) and I really loved the Palace/Temple theme in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. There's something really dark and mysterious about it that made me want to keep playing (and inevitably dying over and over).
Here's my live arrangement of the tune, and like in most of my arrangements, all sounds are performed simultaneously.
Gear used: Sequential Prophet XL and Pro 3, Studio Electronics Boomstar 4075, Arcadia controller (custom built for me by Matt Moldover), Native Instruments Battery 4."
Primary Optics: How Robert Henke used five 1980s computers to create his CBM 8032 AV show
Published on Apr 29, 2020 FACTmagazine
"Primary Optics is a series that dives into the ideas and technology behind some of the world’s most innovative audiovisual shows and artists.
In this episode, filmed at Berlin’s Radialsystem during CTM Festival 2020, FACT goes behind the scenes of CBM 8032 AV, the latest show from the mind of musician and visual artist Robert Henke, aka Monolake. The show revolves around a simple but technically challenging idea: what if you could create an audiovisual show using computers and technology from 40 years ago?
'This work is about the ambivalence between a contemporary aesthetic and the usage of obsolete and limited technology from 40 years ago,' Henke says. 'Everything presented within the project could have been done already in the 1980s, but it needed the cultural backdrop of today to come up with the artistic ideas driving it.'
The computer used by Henke for the show, the Commodore CBM 8032, was originally released in 1980. For comparison, the microchip you'd find in today's average domestic washing machine would be around 100,000 times more powerful that those inside each of the five computers Henke uses live on stage.
One is used for sequencing, one for creating visuals and three for creating sounds. Although he uses hardware effects from the era for filtering, pitch-shifting, looping and reverb, and expanded the computers' capabilities with a self-produced digital to analog converter, the sonics generated are a sparse, simple combination of sine waves, clicks, bleeps and cuts.
'The sound quality on one side is very limited, it's very rough,' Henke says. 'But exactly this kind of rough, edgy sound is something that suddenly becomes interesting because we are used to perfect sound.'
The graphics evoke a nostalgia for a more primitive age of computing, yet push the visual capabilities of the machines into a more psychedelic realm. This part of the show was developed by software engineer Anna Tskhovrebov, and required some clever hardware modification to interpret the computer’s visual data for projection.
'These machines can only display green and they can only display a limited number of graphic symbols, so in 1980 this was not seen as sufficient to do a one-hour performance' Henke says. 'Nowadays we are surrounded by virtual reality, millions of colours with unlimited channels of sound and suddenly the experience of going somewhere and watching for one hour a green screen is something special.'
Directed, filmed and edited by Pedro Küster
Produced by Scott Wilson
Special thanks to:
Robert Henke and Studio Robert Henke for their contribution and archive material
CTM Festival
All at Radialsystem, Berlin
Nai Fowler
Celia Solf and Soho House Berlin
https://roberthenke.com
https://www.ctm-festival.de/
https://radialsystem.de"
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