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Ambient Synth Jam
Sunday Synth Jam: Skoulaman created this live Berlin School/space music/ambient synthesizer jam.
Details via skoulaman:
Sequenced with an arpeggiator loop from the Kurzweil Midiboard connected with the Kawai k1r and the Waldorf micro Q. The solo vibe sounds are from a Yamaha CX5M computer and the Korg Lamda in combination with a Moogerfooger. Accords played om the Juno 106 and on the Korg Lamda.
The Korg Minipops 20 S
This is a demo of the Korg Minipops 20 S, the stereo Minipops, a rhythm box/drum machine from about 1970.
The Minipops was probably most famously used by Jean Michel Jarre. Read more…
What The Future Sounded Like is a documentary about the the people of EMS (Electronic Music Studios) a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain.
Comprising of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who series) and genius engineer David Cockerell, EMS studio was one of the most advanced computer-music facilities in the world.
EMS’s great legacy is the VCS3, Britain’s first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog. The VCS3 changed the sounds of some of the most popular artists of this period including Brian Eno, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd.
via bananimalistic:
Sunday Synth Jam: This video demonstrates jamming with the JazzMutant Lemur and Ableton Live.
It starts with a demo jam and then digs into the set up of the Lemur with Live. Read more…
Korg Electribe ER-1 Dubstep
Sunday Synth Jam: The Korg Electribe ER-1 is a nice, cheap, easy to use virtual analog + sample playback drum machine.
This minimal dubstep drum machine jam gives the ER-1 a workout. Read more…
Launchpad Propaganda
Sunday Synth Jam: This track was done using only the Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8. Plugins used were Native Instruments Massive, Discovery DSP and ABL2.
It would have been nice to get an inset of the screen on this.
Using Compression In The Mix
This video demonstrates the effects of using compression in a mix.
Discussing compression is opening a can of worms. Robert Henke (Monolake) avoided compression on his latest release, commenting:
Radio, and more recently mp3 players and laptop speakers influenced the way popular music is composed, produced and mastered: Every single event has to be at maximum level all the time. This works best with music that is sonically simple, and music in which only a few elements are interacting. A symphony does not sound convincing thru a mobile phone speaker, and a maximized symphony does not sound convincing at all.
My take on compression is that extreme compression would ideally be left to playback devices, unless it’s being used as a creative tool. If you’re listening to that classical symphony or Monolake release in your car, you could push the “compression” button and hear the quiet bits, without the need for for the track to be squashed. Read more…
Thievery Corporation Interview
Current.tv’s interview with Thievery Corporation goes from Washington, DC’s monuments and into the DJ duo’s custom studio, nightclub and restaurant.
Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza and Eric Hilton show off the school tour version of DC – the White House, the Treasury Department, and the Washington Monument – calling it a “Disneyworld set for people to feel good about.” They also flash back to Operation Ceasefire, an event they DJ’d on the National Mall at the beginning of the Iraq War, which was quickly followed by an IRS audit of the band. But still, they’ve stuck close to home instead of moving to more traditional centers for music and entertainment.
via Current
Tonewheels Workshop In Bulgaria
Tonewheels is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions.
In this three day workshop from 24-27 October 2009 in Bulgaria, participants built a simple light-to-sound converter and DC motor controller, and then began to experiment with drawing sounds onto transparent “tonewheels”. The workshop ended in a group performance and an invitation to the audience to try out the instruments for themselves.
