This video, via RetroSound, explores using the Korg Wavestation & Roland JD-800 to create an ambient track, Arctic Circle.
Pads and fx sounds: Korg Wavestation SR played with the DX7 II
CS-80 like brass sound: Roland JD-800
The new super hardware synth from Arturia gets some scrutiny from Sonicstate.com’s Sonic LAB
Check out this out - Jean Michel Jarre met Norbert Pavel, a street musician in Budapest on a hang drum, and the next day they were jamming together on stage.
It makes a great combination, doesn’t it?
The hang drum is a relatively new instrument, developed in 2000 in Switzerland, and inspired by the steel pan and other world instruments.
A nice Italian girl “plays” the Moog Theremin at the MidiWare booth at the Meet Show ‘07 in Milan.
This video demonstrates the tantalizing nature of the theremin - everybody that sees a theremin in action wants to give it a try.
It also highlights the difficulty of making the theremin do more than scream and squeal like a stuck pig.
Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting the two wires, a tone is heard. The quality of the line affects the sound. For example, if the line is thick, allowing more current to pass over it, the pitch changes to a lower tone.
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SynthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and audio toy, available in the app store for $1.99.
Unlike a normal sequencer where you place notes on a grid and a moving playhead plays them, in synthPond you place nodes in a field (pond).
There are two major types of nodes.
Moving these nodes about allows you to create complex and relaxing melodies.
Additionally, because all the nodes are spatially organized, the audio generated can also be placed in a 3D space, occurring around the listener coming from the relative positions of each node.
synthPond was built with mobileFrameworks, an iPhone related c++ library for artists
Video here.
Twenty Systems is the latest release from electronica artist and Expanding Records founder Ben Edwards, aka Benge.
Twenty Systems features 20 tracks made on 20 synthesizers spanning 20 years, accompanied by 60 page color book with a foreword by Robin “Scanner” Rimbaud.
Brian Eno describes the release as ”A brilliant contribution to the archaeology of electronic music.”
His 10th solo album, the project combines an audio CD of new music with a hardbound full color book containing photos and diagrams of the electronic instruments used, along with a detailed history documenting the development of synthesizers between 1968 and 1988.
The purpose of the record is to demonstrate the development of the synthesizer from the first commercially available systems in the late 1960s to the introduction of fully digital systems in the late 1980s. Although not intended to be a comprehensive history of synthesizers, the listener will hopefully gain some insight into the character of each instrument, and on a more general level experience the evolving sound of synthesis over the years.
Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation at the Blip Festival 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge.
The Blip Festival takes place DECEMBER 4—7, 2008 at the Bell House, and is presented by Manhattan art organization THE TANK and NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES.
Video here.
Here are a collection of video introductions to Brian Eno’s Bloom (App Store link), an ambient music application for the iPhone.
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