Synth Porn Saturday: The Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals in all their glory.

Click on the image to get the full-screen HD surround-sound photo of this droolworthy butt-shaker.

Moog’s selling these for 2K. Check the big photo and you’ll see why it’s going to be worth it.

Preliminary Specifications:

• 100% Analog Sound Engine based entirely on original TAURUS I circuits
• “Taurus I” style
• 2 VCO Oscillators, ADS Contour Generator, 1 VCF Filter, Output VCA
• PRESETS: 16 Banks x 4 presets = 48 Total Programmable Bass Sounds
• BANK 0 will contains the Original Taurus I Presets: VAR, TAURUS, TUBA, BASS
• MIDI: DIN and USB, Merging and Routing
• ARPEGGIATOR: MIDI Sync, TAP TEMPO, Internal
• CV Inputs: VOLUME, FILTER, PITCH, GATE

via Big City Music

Synth Porn Saturday: This video captures an Analogue Systems workshop at 4Sound Stordahl Musikk – or as Audiobersjerk calls it, a giant wall of manly Analogue systems modules.

Ahhhh. You can almost smell the patch cords……

The Bob Moog Foundation has created a calendar celebrating the rich history of the Moog Legacy through vintage photos, memorabilia, quotes and information taken directly from Bob’s archive.

The photos trace pivotal moments in Bob’s early career and highlight musicians and pioneers who inspired his work.

The calendar is $20 in the Foundation shop.

The calendar is comprised of five photos of Moog himself, taken from 1958-1974.

The remaining photos are of:

• Leon Theremin
• Vladimir Ussachevsky
• Herb Deutsch
• Keith Emerson
• Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause
• Isao Tomita
• Joel Chadabe
• Roger Powell

Throughout the calendar, Bob’s thoughts and philosophies about his work are shared.

The calendar was designed by graphics artist Rose Hecht in collaboration with the Bob Moog Foundaton.  Through her designs, Rose pays hommage to the original Moog modular synthesizer as the instrument that spawned an industry and radically changed the face of popular music. The background of every page touts panels of knobs and patchbays — images taken from photos of an early modular that was used in Moog’s shop in the 60s.

Image: Pablo Gregor

Saturday Synth Porn: Electronic music pioneer Michael Hoenig in his dream studio, in 1987.

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Image: exoct

Saturday Synth Porn: One of a set of nice shots of a portable Doepfer modular synthesizer.

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Saturday Synth Porn: Imogen Heap discusses her live performance setup.

She discusses the sensuality and aesthetics of her rig and how that is an important part of both her connecting with the instruments and the audience getting into the music.

Image: brotherloco

Saturday Synth Porn: This is the first in a series of unboxing shots of the new Oberheim SEM.

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Image: Brättli Airböurne 2

Saturday Synth Porn: Martin Hollinger in his Music Studio at Synthorama, Luterbach (Switzerland). The Synthesizer Museum is usually open the first Saturday each month (January only upon request).

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Sorry synth fans, but this Saturday Synth Porn entry is a little less synthy than usual and a little more porn-y.

The image above is from a performance of Technosexual, from Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand’s Mixed Relations.

Mixed Relations consists of a series of performances and workshops that explore the relations between bodies and technology within mixed realities.

If you can handle avant garde lesbian erotic multi-reality performance art, with motion sensors & a Nintendo Wii, see the details below.

Otherwise, here are the kitties and synthesizers.

The project involves two people performing in actual and virtual space. Live audio synthesis is achieved using Puredata to respond to body movements. These movements are detected through various technologies including marker based motion capture, flex sensors, pressure sensors, light sensors, accelerometers and the Nintendo Wii.

The performers’ movements are mirrored into Second Life, which is projected into the physical performance space. Live realtime video is also streamed into the virtual performance space, from cameras that are attached to the performers’ bodies. Scaled projections, scale models in virtual space and the projection of virtual instruments onto actual objects are used to create a mixing of the actual and virtual, blurring the lines between the two.

Technesexual consists of the performers engaging in playful erotic acts in physical and virtual space, while using handmade electronic stethoscopes to play the sound of their heartbeats in both spaces, blurring the lines between the two. The stethoscopes consisted of analog stethoscopes connected to piezo sensors wired to 1/8″ audio jacks.

The perfomance captured above was part of the Trasnocheo performance space curated by Susana Cook as part of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro at Mapa Teatro in Bogota, Colombia.

Noone feat. Nekochan- Just because of a little water.

Images : Arthur Chays, Simon Gras, Raphael Sylvestre /
Sound Design: Thibault Duperrier /
Editing : Camille Geoffray /

Noone on myspace : myspace.com/nooneroom

Image: Nova Musik

Saturday Synth Porn: Close-up detail on a Minimoog Voyager Electric NE.

The Voyager Electric NE is a custom edition of the Moog Minimoog Voyager that features:

• White-washed cabinet
• Electric Blue back lighting
• All Blue rocker switches
• Blue capped jack panel

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Image: eskimo_jo

Saturday Synth Porn: Little Boots (& the malfunctioning Tenori-On!) at the Wrongbar, Toronto, September 14, 2009.

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Image: livid instruments

Saturday Synth Porn: J. Scott G’s custom Ohm64 MIDI controller for Ableton Live.

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Image: jobenbelgium

Saturday Synth Porn: This is a pretty sweet room corner, featuring an ARP 2500 with the Analogue Systems TH48 Analogue Sequencer:

Check the same knobs used on the sequencer as on the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer. Knobs should still be for sale at Analogue Systems.

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Image: altemark

Saturday Synth Porn: An evocative shot of the Future Retro Revolution analog synthesizer.

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Saturday Synth Porn: Great shot of Keith Emerson rocking out, with his monster modular synth as a backdrop.

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Saturday Synth Porn: A Buchla 200e, with new modules freshly installed.

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Throbbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti shows off her complimentary and coveted Athens Synch Festival Bass Bag, which looks like a certain iconic bassline synthesizer.

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Saturday Synth Porn: Little Boot’s Remedy sounds pretty mainstream but has enough synth riffs, retro-futuristic vibe and Tenory On goodness to recommend it.

According to Little Boots, “The song is about dancing and music being a remedy to some kind of poison in your life. I wanted to write a dark dance pop song a bit like Britney Spears’ Toxic. The lyrics are not really very personal, I was more imagining a situation.”

via BBC

Image: LittleO2

This awesomely iconic shot of Jean Michel Jarre playing the theremin comes from his 5/30/09 concert in Zurich.

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