Sunday Synth Jams: Peter Pringle makes a return appearance with this awesome and bizarre Tuvan Throat Singing & Theremin jam.
Tuvan throat singing involves controlling the shape of the mouth and throat in order to emphasize specific overtones. This creates the effect that the performer is singing two notes at once.
Detail on the performance below. Continue reading
The Bob Moog Foundation and Moog Music have announced a one-day event to celebrate the memory of Bob Moog & to raise music for the Foundation.
In celebration of Bob Moog’s 78th birthday, Moog Music will donate 50% of all online clothing and merchandise sales on May 23rd to the Bob Moog Foundation. For every $350 raised, the company will also donate one Etherwave Theremin to the Foundation’s educational initiative, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, to complete the DBSS Educational Kit that is provided to each participating school. Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool teaches elementary school students the science of sound through the magic of music.
If you’d like to support the goals of the Foundation and get some cool stuff, visit the Moog store this Wed and check out the Moog clothing and merchandise.
“In a time when science achievement is declining in this country, we are proud to support the Bob Moog Foundation in their efforts to bring science alive through electronic music,” said Mike Adams, Moog Music President & CEO. ”We invite all of our customers to make a purchase online on May 23rd and support the Foundation’s important work,”
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s another synth jam for the old school space music + Berlin School fans, Kristallwald (Crystal Forest), by Velvet Voyage (Bruno Ender Lee). Continue reading
The music of Tegan & Sera isn’t overtly electronic, but this live performance from the Moog Sound Lab showcases how they make use of the Moog Guitar, Etherwave theremin and Taurus 3 bass synthesizer.
Technical details below. Continue reading
From Thierry Frenkel, theremingénieur, who developed the volume loop mod for the Moog Etherwave Pro used in many of Peter Pringle’s videos:
This is a demonstration of my most recent development – a small module which is soldered onto the Etherwave’s circuit board and which extends the pitch range of this theremin by somewhat more than 1.5 octaves towards lower frequencies.
The player will feel a much more stable and linear pitch field, even very far away from the pitch antenna. At the same time, the bass range of this instrument does not longer sound like a dying motorbike…
As the theremin goes very low, small computer speakers will perhaps not allow you to hear the extended bass in acceptable quality. Try using headphones or an external sound system…
Frenkel adds, “This recording of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise Op. 34 has absolutely no musical value. I’m not a musician, I’m a theremingénieur.”
No additional information on the mod is available yet at Frenkel’s site, so I’ve contacted him to find out more.
If you’ve used this mod, leave a comment with your thoughts on it!
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Punkin Face and Pussy Willow interview Synthlebrity Tara Busch after her performance at Moogfest 2010, on the latest episode of the bizarro Get To Know Your Moog Show – Special Moogfest 2010 Edition.
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