The Mirlitrons have uploaded their Jingle Bell Variations to SoundCloud as “a greeting to Synthtopiarists worldwide.” We especially enjoyed the variation where Jingle Bells is transformed into disturbing sheets of playful sound-noise. MirlitronOne also sends word that the piece was composed using only a modified Casio SA-5 keyboard and a likewise modified Digitech RP50 multieffects… Read More A Happy Christmas From The Mirlitrons
BS/OD has released their album The System Is Down as a free album for the holidays. It’s available from now through the day after Christmas as a free download.
Here’s a free holiday-themed music download – the Hybiscus Journals’ version of the Arabian Dance from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite: For those interested in that sort of thing, all sounds were created on a Sequential Circuits Pro-One. The cello/bass ostinato was programmed into the Pro-One’s onboard sequencer. All other parts were played live (one at a… Read More Switched On Nutcracker – Tchaikovsky’s Arabian Dance On A Pro-One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdCeysR6yU This video, via deathstarchris, is a rendition of Silent Night on a circuit-bent Casio MT-520: Circuit bent Casio MT-520. Added a severe cut-off filter and a minor cut-off filter and a light dependent resistor and one momentary switch to activate it. Most circuit bent stuff is heavy on the glitch side. This one is… Read More Merry Circuit Bent Christmas
Ethan Goldhammer’s Up & Down via Ethan Goldhammer: This one’s less heavy on the synth porn, and heavier on the time lapse and tape delayed rhodes&piano. But it’s still got a good amount of Moog Opus, Sequential Circuits Six-Trak and lots of little-phatty filtered Piano and Rhodes (filter comes AFTER the Echoplex). This also features… Read More Ethan Goldhammer’s Up & Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMps8OSjls Electronic musician Andy Hagerty created this alternate score to the Tron: Legacy trailer. Hagerty describes his track, The Perfect Score, as “a pulsing, melodic, Jarre style track, with an underlying 80s game theme.”
Here’s a first look at the Analogue Solutions Station X mini-modular synthesizer and its complementary counterpart, the Analogue Solutions Station Y Synthesizer. This demo video features some random patches & finally some clangorous “noise” examples.
This is MSSIAH CTRL – a custom DIY hardware control mod for the Mssiah synth. If you’re not familiar with MSSIAH it is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 that turns the 64 into a MIDI synth module. Here’s a short demo of the controller in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uigPZ5zwMI The developer would be interested in input on MSSIAH CTRL: I… Read More MSSIAH CTRL Hardware Controller
Tinkerteam has introduced Sprak (app store link)- a new noise a noise/drone synth for iOS, designed to make ‘phat and gritty ehhrm, noise and drones’. Here’s what they have to say about it: While we love the existing noise and drone apps available on the app store, none of them combined the two in that special… Read More Sprak, A Noise-Drone Synth For iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
This video captures a very cool live electroacoustic ambient world music performance by Spiral 7, with movement/choreography by Claire Elizabeth Barratt. The performance features instrumental ambient world music plus Ableton Live to trigger audio loops and video projections.
