Michael Iceberg on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
This cheesetastic video shows Michael Iceberg, the guy that performed spacey music at Disney for years, in a classic performance on the tonight show. via Matrix
Category: Electronic Music & Recording Gear
What Is This Thing?
Found on YouTube – a device described as a wacky organ synth drum machine thing. What would you call it?
The Strangest Music Video You’ll See Today
Remember when I noted Roland’s V-Accordion as one of the the NAMM Show highlights? You probably were wondering WHO would do WHAT with a MIDI accordion. Here you go: Uwe Steger presents his extensions for the Roland V-Accordion. via MusicThing
Musical Condom Opens New Worlds Of Musical Expression
We’ve seen some strange musical instruments in our days, but this probably takes the prize. United States patent 5163447 is for a Force-Sensitive, Sound-Playing Condom – aka, the musical condom. The musical condom looks and acts like a traditional condom but it incorporates “a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer (18) which plays a melody or voiced… Read More Musical Condom Opens New Worlds Of Musical Expression
Secrets Of The Reactable’s Pattern Recognition
Vision Systems Design, an engineering tech journal, has an interesting discussion on the technology behind the Reactable synthesizer interface. The Reactable, developed by researchers at the Pompeu Fabra University, is a tangible interface for manipulating synth sounds built from an off-the-shelf camera, computer projector, PC, and a custom-built light-table. The Reactable hardware is based on… Read More Secrets Of The Reactable’s Pattern Recognition
The 2008 Winter NAMM Show Synthgasm
The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year. We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for… Read More The 2008 Winter NAMM Show Synthgasm
Music From The 1955 RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer
In 1955, RCA unveiled its Electronic Music Synthesizer, and a new era in the history of music began. Developed at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center (near Princeton, NJ), it was the brainchild of Harry Olson and Herbert Belar. Olson was also the designer of a number of RCA’s microphones. This huge and unwieldy system was… Read More Music From The 1955 RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer
New RozzBox 5-Voice Poly Synth w/Tube Filter
The RozzBox V2 is a 5-voice polyphonic synthesizer with digital oscillators, digital and analog filters on each voice, and one additional all tube filter. In addition to the classic design of a 4-oscillator polysynth with analog filters, the RozzBox features functions that can’t be found on any other synthesizer, such as the Hacker, the chaotic… Read More New RozzBox 5-Voice Poly Synth w/Tube Filter
Nick’s World Of Synthesizers
Nick’s World Of Synthesizers is a trip to bizarre DIY synthville. The video gives you a taste of what Nick’s been up to, but you have to visit his site to check out his really interesting, complex creations. Here’s his DIY philosophy: I have been making electronic musical instruments for about 10 years. With all… Read More Nick’s World Of Synthesizers
Dieter Doepfer On The Latest Doepfer Gear
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, synth goddess and Analog Suicider Tara Busch caught up with Dieter Doepfer and talked to him about what was new with the Doepfer modular synth line.
