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 kinda hypnotic, I taped and uploaded it.

This shows the absinth ritual using a see saw brouilleur and Verte de Fougerolles Absinth (I love that brand). The sound of the see saw brouiller is captured by a microphone and used to trigger stuff in the modular synth (Doepfer A100, with the one and only Isidore robot cabinet)… so that every drops (approximately) changes synth parameters such as pan, fm, filters and delay clock.
I also added some melody from my micromoog and some rvb (on the moog only).

I had to make several takes and edited the thing while I was totally drunk.

The see saw brouilleur introduces a semi-aleatoric element to the music; can an absinthe plugin be far off?

Prof. Aaron Lanterman teaches Georgia Tech course ECE4893A: Electronics for Music Synthesis.

The above video is a tape of session 1; the remaining lecture videos are available on Blip.tv.

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This video demos how to create and upload a remix project to Koblo.com.

Music by Mankind is Obsolete.

This demos a circuit bent Atari Punk Dreamcast with opto theremin. 

Extra features include…

• Internal speaker with on/off [under lid]
• Opto-theremin (photo cell) with on/off [under lid]
• 4 Body Contacts 
• Pretty blue LED 
• Furby eyes

A demo of a Circuit Bent Toy Laser Gun, 6 Different Sounds Cool L.E.D. Light show, Pitch Bend and 1/4″ instrument out.

This video is a demo of a modded Linn LM-1 – a classic drum machine that is even more flexible with the mod, which adds tuning pots to the front panel.

A demonstration of an assembled Electric Western Phantastron vacuum tube synthesizer. 

This Phantastron was built for a customer from the same components & case parts in the standard kit. The Phantastron has a 30’s vacuum tube sound, like an Ondes Martenot in the highs and a Trautonium in the low range.

Phantastron was recorded direct to camera. No effects used…

SonicState takes a look at GForce M-Tron Pro, which is expected to be released soon. Price $199 / €139 Euros/ £109 UKP.

Features:

• 200+ total tape banks (sample sets), including:
  • 45 brand-new tape banks not found in the original M-Tron
  • 19 tape banks from the original M-Tron virtual instrument, remastered at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios
  • Over 40 looped tape banks
  • Over 3.5GB of samples total
• 700+ patches including many created by world-class recording artists and programmers
• Up to 35 notes, each individually sampled
• Dual layer and split keyboard operation
• Programmable MIDI CC response via MIDI Learn
• 29 parameters per layer including synth parameters: Vintage-style ensemble and delay effects
  • Low-pass, band-pass and high-pass resonant filter section
  • Tape reverse
  • Tape half speed

Formats
Standalone, VST 2.4 (Mac/PC including VSTi), RTAS® (Mac/PC), MAS (Mac) and Audio Units (Mac).

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 hit them

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

A demo of Noise.io – an iPhone synthesizer – with Chemical Brothers’ style arpeggiation/sequencing.