“We have an extended show for you this month with more excellent music from Jamendo. The best of free creative commons licensed downtempo music. This month we dedicate this show to those in South East Asia who have been devastated by a range of natural disasters. The Philippines with servere flooding, Sumatra rocked by a [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Circular nodes release waves at certain intervals.
Hard-edged nodes release waves when waves [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Here are a collection of video introductions to Brian Eno’s Bloom (App Store link), an ambient music application for the iPhone.
Oliver Chesler put together this nice map to electronic music in Berlin:
“Berlin is the undisputed center of electronic music. A few times a month friends and blog readers come to visit. I’ve decided to make a Google Map with the locations of many of the great record stores, labels, synthesizer manufacturers, audio software companies and [...]
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