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Sunday, November 15, 2020

DOUG McKECHNIE – SAN FRANCISCO MOOG: 1968-72




Available on BandCamp here

"Never-before-released analog-synth recordings that rewrite the early history of electronic music.

Edition of 300 vinyl LPs. Out 10/23/20.

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 documents for the first time a critical missing link in the history of electronic music.

In 1968, a young Bay Area native named Doug McKechnie got hold of one the very first Moog Modular Series III synthesizers ever made—serial number 004—and began experimenting with it. Soon, he was hauling its many components around the region, performing improvised concerts for audiences whose minds had been opened by psychedelia but whose ears were often unfamiliar with electronic sounds. Working outside of academia and traditional recording studios—the only places one could find Moogs at the time—he invented his own way to play the instrument on the fly. He recorded many of his performances.

After four years, McKechnie lost access to the expensive Moog. He moved on to other musical and creative endeavors. The recordings he made on quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape gathered dust in a closet for decades, and have never been released until now.

The music on San Francisco Moog captures McKechnie eschewing the somber rigor of the academic electronic music of the era for a more free-flowing, melodic sound that nonetheless explores the limits of the instrument’s plastic sonic possibilities. Using the keyboard and two 24-step sequencers that came with the deluxe Moog, he created music that wove together multiple electronic voices in the moment, an innovation typically ascribed to later pioneers like Tangerine Dream (who would end up the owners of the very same Moog—but that’s another story).

Cuts like “The First Exploration @ SF Radical Labs, 1968” and “Berkeley Art Museum” find McKechnie building and expanding musical moods that capture the in-the-moment nature of his playing. “Meditation Moog 1968” finds him taking a more minimalist approach, while still exploring the instrument’s timbral possibilities. “Baseline” and “Crazy Ray” sound more like fully formed musical compositions, with melody, counterpoint, and even hooks of a sort.

San Francisco Moog not only proves a transportive listening experience, it casts a new light on the accepted history of electronic music."

DOUG McKECHNIE – SAN FRANCISCO MOOG: 1968-72

「PASSIVE TOOLS 2」by SYNTHFOX ~overview~


SYNTHFOX Channel

"Overviewing my new passive utility set and its various capabilities! These demos are with plain-simple Doepfer modules for the sake of clarity and simplicity, but of course, one can get way more complicated and unpredictable results using it in more uncommon ways."

https://reverb.com/shop/synthfoxs-boutique



PASSIVE TOOLS 1 by SYNTHFOX is a versatile collection of passive utilities in 4 HP. It consists of 4 signal processors, 3 of which can be musically useful when used with audio, CV and logic/gate signals, and one is intended to be a sound processor.

PASSIVE TOOLS 1 includes four useful submodules:

- MASH is a somewhat esoteric signal interwinder. A passive diode/transistor setup mashes the two signals together, often boosting their slight detunes and mismatches for audio, and creates interesting patterns out of CVs and logic signals. It acts in a manner somewhat similar to ring modulators and the logic XOR output, although the expected result of either is unobtainable from it: instead, you are going to get more unpredictable and surprising results.

- OR is a simple, yet very useful "max" processor. It lets the highest of the two voltages on its inputs pass, while completely blocking the other one. Its main intent is to combine gate signals like an OR logic gate, but it also can be used to select the maximal of the two LFOs, for example, or even mix down two sounds in a weird, weird way.

- M0RE is the least complex part of the module: a simple half wave rectifier lets only the positive half of the wave pass through, while completely blocking the negative portion. Useful for ridding the CV of the negative portion, harmonically enhancing sounds, or converting a bipolar squaerwave-like signals into unipolar gate signals.

- HPF is the only submodule that is intended only for use with audio: it's a simple passive high pass filter with three preset cutoff frequencies. It's an extremely useful and underappreciated audio tool: when it comes to mixing down the patch, nothing is a simpler solution in fixing the frequency overlaps between the bass and mid layer, for example, than a high-pass on the higher sound. It can as well be used to DC decouple sounds that have some voltage offset, or converting gates to tiny pluck-like spikes for pinging the filters.

The module draws no power and comes with 2 M3 mounting screws. NB! The module is assembled on-demand upon purchase, and it takes 1 working day. So, don't worry about the unit not being shipped right the next day - it will be shipped in 3 working days.

Elektron demonstration with Mario Hernandez - Analog 4 MK2 and Rytm MK2 (Replay)


Patchwerks Seattle

"This is a replay of the Elektron demonstration from October 21st, 2020 with Mario Hernandez of Elektron. In the video we discuss the new firmware updates and the incredibly sleek black MK2 models.

Order an Analog 4 MK2 here: https://bit.ly/elektron_analog4mk2
Order an Analog Rytm MK2 here: https://bit.ly/elektron_analog_rytmmk2

https://patchwerks.com/
Demo by: Mario Hernandez of Elektron
Video by: Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT)
https://www.ezbot.live"

Kodamo Essence FM "Back to the FM Vol 1" sound bank by Pulsophonic demo 1/3


Pulsophonic

Nosferatu

RK002 + Novation Circuit = Song Mode


Yurii Zubkov

"Work in progress. Still have a couple of bugs to squash.
A little demo of what you can do with RK002 and 64 bytes of memory (parameter storage). The recorded sequence will remain in memory after power cycling the RK002. I am planning to make a web editor for the sequencer.

Sequencer will support these actions:
- Start
- Switch Session (after number of beats)
- Loop Sessions
- Loop Sequencer Actions
- Jump to Action number
- Stop
- something else?

Please don't mind my weird headphones splitter, I just needed to convert TRS A to B somehow :D. My RK002 have male TRS connector."

Vintage DDR - Vermona analog synth

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A quickie with the SYNTRX + Ableton Live 11 Beta


Genshi Media Group

"I installed the Ableton Live 11 Beta today and thought I'd do a quick recording test using the Erica Synths SYNTRX being sequenced with the Make Noise 0-CTRL. I forgot to show this but, the initial Tempo in Live 11 was set using the new Audio Follow feature. I also added the new Spectral Resonator towards the end along with the updated Flanger."

Roland TR-06 + Dreadbox Typhon Electro


Adam Jay

"A peek into some live set prep. Two TR-06 patterns against one Typhon pattern."

COTK Two Rooms


synthprocess

"Club of the Knobs Synthesizer modules: C1650 EXTENDED RHYTHM CONTROLLER, C919 STAGE PERFORMER and C909-RS TWO ROOMS IN ONE"



No pics of the C919 yet.

ST Modular - CV SCAN and UIT (Balanced Out) with Morphagene | CV SCAN, TRYFELO and EUROKASTLE


Stefan Tretau

ST Modular - CV SCAN, TRYFELO and EUROKASTLE


"Using CV SCAN to scan through different CV sources from Tryfelo to control EuroKastle Pitch. And using CV SCAN to route one CV source from Tryfelo to different CV inputs of EuroKastle. Scanning manually and via CV, using the Volt Output of CV Scan to change EuroKastle CV with the Scan knob and interrupting the CV SCAN route via gate signals and manually via the dedicated OFF button.
I´m also using the new Balanced Output Module "UIT" here.

This is not supposed to be musical ;-)"
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