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Third Man Records has announced the 7-inch release of John Boswell’s A Glorious Dawn on November 9th.
A Glorious Dawn, embedded above, is an arrangement of Carl Sagan’s words from Cosmos, AutoTuned.

 

OT: Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh has created a line of art rugs that features his designs.
I’ve got an uncontrollable urge to get one of these for the Synthtopia studio…..
Devo has also announced plans for a series of live shows and some deluxe box set reissues.

via wired

 

Synthwerks is offering a sneak preview of their modular synthesizer, which is still under development, at their Facebook page.
They’ve announced an interesting array of modules, including a “thumbstick” joystick controller; force sensing resistor modules; and this iPhone/iPod touch Player Module, designed to integrate an iPhone into your modular synthesizer.

 

Cycle 1 by seeyouinsleep
If you like ambient and experimental music, you’ll want to check out Brian W. Green’s seeyouinsleep release, Cycles.
Green is constantly experimenting with sound, and documenting his work on YouTube, SoundCloud and at his blog.
Green explains:
I focus mainly on work dealing with field recording, sound art, generative synthesis, abandoned spaces/natural ambience, environmental/nature sounds, [...]

 

The Akai APC40, shown above getting a workout with a Freestylers/Noisia/BustaRhymes/Dillinja remix/mashup, has gotten a lot of people psyched about hardware controllers for Ableton Live.
To help showcase what people are doing with the APC40, Akai Professional has announced the European APC40 Video Contest, starting November, 1st and ending December, 31st 2009. Prizes include your [...]

 

Modartt has released Pianoteq Pro – the advanced version of Pianoteq. Its major feature over Pianoteq is per note adjustment for physical parameters.
Features:

Note per note adjustment for 22 physical parameters: detune, unison width, direct sound duration, hammer hardness piano, hammer hardness mezzo, hammer hardness forte, spectrum profile, hammer noise, strike point, pickup symmetry, pickup distance, [...]

 


Video Wizards to Create Interactive Party Penthouse was uploaded by: wired
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Grape Solutions’ Pluto is an online synthesizer and digital audio workstation. It’s implemented in a web browser, and based on Microsoft Silverlight.

 

Ever wondered what it was like making electronic music in the late 1950s?
Now you can find out – without having to learn tape-splicing.
Gleetchplug has announced Berna – a “vintage electronic studio simulation.”
It’s got reel-to-reel recorders, oscillators, tape delay – what more do you need to make electronic music?
Release date: Monday November 2nd 2009. Price 10.69€
I [...]

 

WABOT-2 relaxes by jamming on the electric keyboards.
Next, he will rip off your arms and beat you with them, because he doesn’t need you anymore. 

 

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