In his profile of Icon Steve Roach, Roach talks about the artist and music that inspired him to choose a life of electronic music making, Klaus Schulze’s Timewind:

I think when I heard Timewind, it was really the album that hit the switch for me.

There’s just a sound and a quality of the sound and a feeling that the sound gave me went so deep and cut through so many layers and was so direct, the experience of that music was so direct, it was so familiar.

Timewind is a 60-minute electronic epic, dedicated to Richard Wagner, that is made up of two (side-long) half-hour tracks, Bayreuth Return and Wahnfried 1883.

It’s Sunday! That means we take a slight break from the non-stop electronic music news coverage and break out the Sunday Synth Jams – new and classic examples of musicians making interesting music with synths and electronic music gear.

You may have seen this one before, because it’s a vintage synth jam from 1977. But it’s Klaus Schulze at his Moogtacular prime…..

If you ever need a definition of Berlin School electronica, this is it!

Tune in, turn on and space out as Klaus Schulze plays live, WDR Köln 1977.

For Schulze fans only: Leave a comment and let me know what your favorite Schulze album is!

via OtixIbiza:

One of my first works as soundtechn. at german television WDR Köln 1977.

This is a teaser video for Retrotech, an electronic music concert composed and performed live by keyboardists Carlos Trilha and André Dessandes.

Retrotech recalls the “belle epoque” of electronic music.

Details:

On stage, Trilha and Dessandes use synthesizers, analogue sequencers and drum machines from the 70’s and early 80’s. These historical instruments evoke the origin of characteristic electronic sounds that are now widely used in many types of pop and electronic music.

A unique detail of this production is that they do not use loops or sound libraries. All the sounds are created from real instruments and are first generation, allowing Retrotech to make a striking reinterpretation of the classic sound of electronic music.

In addition, Retrotech also uses a special set of projection images from generative code (created in real time), synchronized by software written with MAX/MSP/JITTER by ALESSANDRA MARFISA specially for each performance.

Sunday Synth Jam: Proof that there is hope for an electronic music scene in Iowa: Blutiger Fluss performing their Klaus Schulze-esque Minima at Vaudeville Mews, June 27th, 2009.

via h0mrs1mpsn:

Sorry about the audio, we were playing pretty loud and the camera person was close to the stage.

Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s an ambient/space music jam, with a side of Berlin School sequencing, via Tom Bedlam:

Dark Equinox

Live performance 24.09.09.
Tom on all synths,Mellotron and programming.
Visuals by the Invisible Collage

Bedlam says that he’ s alive and reasonably sentient, and likes people who like to collaborate on musical projects. See his Vimeo page for more info and music videos.

Motion Samples presents the sounds of Galactic Atmosphere featuring 36 scores of synthesizer strings and pads created for film scoring projects in the themes of space, mystery, psychedelic, science, technology, electronic and other enigmatic themes.

The scores are arranged by tempo from 60-100 bpm and duration times from 40 sec to 2 min, providing a wide selection of ideas to fit you scene.

This collection is also great for creating electronic and world music.

Contents:

• 36 Wav Files, 40 sec – 2 min
• 60-100 bpm
• License C (TV/Film), details here

Galactic Atmosphere retails for $35 USD.

Here’s a treat for fans of old-school Berlin school synth music.

This video, by Quintin Hewlett, captures Electroluminescent (Ryan Ferguson) as part of the New Harbours Music Series vol. 2 Christ’s Church Cathedral, Hamilton, Ontario, Spring 2009.

This video, by Hans-Jörg Scheffler, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the SETI@home project:

It features my dear friend and incredibly talented musician Tatsuya Nishiwaki on chromatic harmonica. The images in the clip are a wild mixture of imaginary alien broadcasts and stuff that we humans transmit.

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Eno will introduce the premier of the new arrangement at the concert on the 20th.

20 and 21 July 2009 (doors open at 19.00pm). £18 per person*

To book your place, call 0870 870 4771

* Children aged 14 and older are welcome to attend accompanied by an adult.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing the Science Museum, alongside Sound and Music, present the premiere of a new live arrangement of Brian Eno’s 1983 album ‘Apollo’.

The performance by amplified ensemble Icebreaker, with BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar, will be accompanied by original footage of the Moon landings by director Al Reinert (For All Mankind, 1989) projected onto the giant screen of the Science Museum IMAX cinema. Supporting the new arrangement of ‘Apollo’ will be performances of new material based on recordings from space.

Taking place in the Science Museum’s iconic ‘Making the Modern World’ gallery, which includes the real Apollo 10 Command Module, these performances will be by experimental artists Douglas Benford and Iris Garrelfs.

The concert will take place in the Science Museum IMAX Cinema and ‘Making the Modern World’ gallery.

The long anticipated electronic music collaboration between AD Music’s David Wright and DiNs Ian Boddy has been confirmed as Shifting Sands and is set for release on 5th September 2009 at the Derby Music Festival.

There are 5 tracks: Comets, Shifting Sands, Still Motion, Endless Terrain and Halcyon.

Some of the album will be premiered during the Boddy, Hoffmann-Hoock & Wright evening performance at the event. The album is currently in post production and sound bites and more information will be available soon.

Sunday Synth Jam: Modulator ESP at Relativity: A short section from Jez Creek’s solo set at the Relativity concert on 23-6-9.

The gig marked the live debut of his new Doepfer modular, used here to create a lot of the FX. The set was a mix of ambient and uptempo, all improvised, and even including a ’style’ request from a member of the audience.

via filbyhyde22

Free Music Friday: Modulator ESP (Jez Creek) produces improvised experimental music using analogue and digital synthesis, analogue sequencers and processed sounds to create strange worlds of sound somewhere between ’70s space music, prog rock and dark ambient drone.

Creek has shared a large collection of his synth music at the Modulator ESP site. You can preview several of his tracks below.

Creek has this to say about his Modulator ESP project:

I decided to ‘form’ Modulator ESP as an outlet for my desire to produce improvisational electronic music. I compose my music using synthesizers, sequencers and samplers and spend far too much of my time on sound design. I am into a wide range of music from ambient electronica to thrash metal via all points between and tend to like weird or progressive stuff. I listen to music because it takes me away from the humdrum reality of everyday life and into new worlds of imagination. I play music so I can design my own new worlds. I am happy to include in my musical influences such diverse acts as Airsculpture, Dream Theater, IQ, Jean Michel Jarre, Radio Massacre International, Redshift, Tangerine Dream and Yes.

This track, Cosmos, features Roland D-550 + JD-800 + TR-808, and was inspired by Carl Sagan’s classic TV series.

via retrosound72:

“COSMOS theme”
Inspired by the cosmos tv series by C.Sagan

pads, sweeps, chimes and other sounds: Roland D-550 and JD-800
drums: Roland TR-808

This is sort of amazing – Mat Jarvis (Gas) has announced that a fan video for his track Microscopic has just reached the quarter million barrier on YouTube, with 250,000 full views.

That’s amazing for an ambient music video, but even more so since it’s fan-produced.

Check out the track below and see the Microscopics site if you want to get the full album.

The first podcast features music from:

• Steve Rose
• Ministry of Inside Things
• Mingo
• Sensitive Chaos
• A.R.S.(e)
• Computerchemist
• Dolmen
• Parallel Worlds
• Numina
• Ran Kirlian
• Synthetic Dream Foundation
• Steve Roach

Preview the first episode below:

You can subscribe by adding this Feed URL to your podcast software, such as iTunes:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/HypnagoguePodcast

via EphemeralRadio

Korg M3 Soundtrack Mix – Ode To NASA

This video demos a collection of Korg M3 sounds from Kid Nepro.

via KidNepro:

M3 Soundtrack/Film Mix – Our second collection of sounds for the Korg M3 has now been updated.

Version 1.5 has added an additional 16 combis. Soundtrack Mix now contains 64 Programs, 48 Combis and 60 Megs of new samples. All well crafted and fully KARMA-fied!

Video footage courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope.Music and Video: Steve Proto More info and demos at: www.kidnepro.com

©1984-2009 – Kid Nepro Productions

Becquerel 2 70×10 11 Ci [Synthesizer Soundscape]

This is an “epic synthesizer soundscape”, recorded at the Hilltree studio Netherlands.

Synths used include: Waldorf microwave/Pulse/ GEM S3/Roland SH32/ Clavia Nord/DX7/Korg MS2000/fb-01/Elka synth

via hilltree:

“My secret weapons for this track ….. A good reverb…..a big delay/chorus….and a deep harmonizer.

Synthtopia reader JRice sent word that we can do no wrong……as long as we post more of the Berlin School electronic music goodness.

“More is better!” he says.

With that in mind, check out this episode of the Small World podcast, which features an interview with Alpha Wave Movement’s Gregory Kyruluk.

The podcast, below, kicks of with an off the heezy Berlin School track. It continues with some interview segments with Kyruluk, some of his more ambient tracks, and then comes back with another heaping helping of the interlocking step sequences:

This is a must listen for old-school synth music/space music fans!

Via solipsistic, Image: blueforce4116

Sunday Synth Jam: This video features a bit of Berlin-school style synth jamming by Pollard & Daniel with Free System Projekt.

Part 2 below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

via filbyhyde22

Atlantis Rising is the title song from a CD by San Francisco Bay area recording artist Michael Diamond with special guest Steven Halpern.

The song was composed by Steven Halpern on keyboards and includes Michael on guitar-synth and E-bow guitar.

This music video by award-winning film maker Ken Jenkins, is a selection from his latest DVD entitled Illumination 2. Most of the visual effects on the DVD are not computer generated, but were created by optical projection devices which Ken designed and built.

Part 1 of the Illumination 2 soundtrack features over an hour of ethereal electronic music by Michael Diamond with a guest appearance by Steven Halpern and part two is set to the ambient soundscapes of Sylken from Toronto, Canada.

More info here.