October, 2008 archive

ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
Koyaanisqatsi is a groundbreaking 1982 motion picture essay which looks at modern life and its imbalances.
It was directed by Godfrey Reggio, with [...]

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Watchmojo had a chance to talk to Moby about his most recent album, Last Night.

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Another audio-generated landscape music video from Flight404.

Genoqs has introduced a special edition of its Octopus sequencer, the Octopus Vampire edition.
Here’s the scoop:

Bordeaux lacquered wood frame
Anodized black front panel
Aluminum-gray anodized lettering
Blue-yellow-purple tri-color LEDs
Production strictly limited to 25 machines total
Pre-order yours now
Delivery starts December 1st, 2008
Price 2699.- EUR

Genoqs has a gorgeous Octopus Vampire brochure (pdf) that you can download.
via Gearjunkies

Noise.io, the iPhone synthesizer, is now available in the Apple App Store.
Noise.io is a synthesizer which takes iPhone’s processing capabilities to the maximum - you can create sounds for latter recording and processing in your favorite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
Features:

3 Major Workmodes (Freenoise Mode, Controlzone Mode, Soundkey Mode)
3 Generators (Brother, Sister - 2×25 possible waveforms, [...]

As if absinthe wasn’t strong enough on its own, DamagedMeat has combined his absinthe ritual with his modular sequencer to make ritual absinthe music:
I love Absinth, and I love modular synthesizers, so I thought it would be a good idea to do something featuring those two wonders… And as it actually looked quite good and [...]

RetroSound demos the Roland Juno-60 Analog Synthesizer, including demos of various filter and envelope settings, PWM, VCF and DCO Modulation and more;  Juno-60 arpeggiator triggered by the Roland TR-606;  drums: Roland TR-606.

Don’t watch this video on any illicit substances - it’s trippy enough already.
It’s an introduction to the “mind twisting hearing sensation” RjDj.
RjDj is an application for the iPhone that samples input to your iPhone’s earbud microphone, manipulates it in interesting ways and then sends it to the earbuds, creating a sound collage based on your [...]

Sonic State takes a look at the GForce Software M-Tron; it ads the newly developed synth engine from their Virtual String Machine to add deep filter and effects

DJ Mag has announced their list of the Top 100 DJs, and Armin Van Buuren, and trance music in general, has come out on top. In the #2 and #3 positions are Tiësto and Paul van Dyk.
I’m surprised to see Infected Mushroom in the top 10. And where are the female DJs?
Let me know what you [...]