Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has officially declared May 23rd-30th, 2016 Detroit Techno Week, to celebrate the role of Detroit and its artists in the creation of techno music and the annual Movement Electronic Music Festival:
Village of Trumansburg, NY has installed a new historical marker, placed outside of the building that housed the original R.A. Moog company on Main Street. The building is where the Moog modular and Minimoog were developed and produced. Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of The Bob Moog Foundation, and composer David Borden (Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company) unveiled the… Read More Trumansburg, NY Unveils R. A. Moog Historical Marker
This video, via Seen From Space, captures a synth jam for Moog Mother-32, DSI Pro 2 & Novation Supernova II. Here’s what they have to say about it:
Earlier in the year, we reported that The Lawrence Public Library Is Getting A Monster Modular Synthesizer. Now the custom modular synth, created by Lawrence-based Free State FX, is freely available at the Lawrence Public Library, as part of their Sound + Vision studio. This video, via Jade Guitarmaker, offers a preview of the instrument and what it’s capable of.… Read More Modular Synth Jam At The Lawrence Public Library
Autechre has released a new album, elseq 1–5, their twelfth studio release. It’s a massive 5-part release, and is currently only available in digital formats. Options include: 24-bit WAV 16-bit lossless WAV/FLAC 320 KBPS Lame Encoded MP3 Previews and details are available at the Warp Records site.
At Moogfest 2016, being held in Durham, NC Thursday May 19 – Sun May 22, we spotted three new Eurorack modules that are still to be announced.
Disney and Sumthing Else Music Works have announced that they will be releasing Giorgio Moroder’s TRON Run/r soundtrack on May 31, 2016. The video game soundtrack features original tracks by Giorgio Moroder and Raney Shockne, along with remixes by Autechre, Bibio, Darkstar, patten, Plaid and Rusko.
Steinberg has announced Dorico – a new app that’s described as a ‘next-generation professional scoring software for composers, arrangers, engravers, copyists and educators’. It’s named after Valerio Dorico, one of the most important music printers in 16th-century Rome. Here’s what they have to say about it:
At Superbooth 16, we talked with Christian Günther of CG Products and got an introduction to his unique Eurorack synth modules. Günther is a percussionist, and many of his modules are designed with percussion synthesis in mind.
Native Instruments has released the Stems Software Developer Kit (SDK) – a free toolkit for software and hardware developers, designed to make it easy to develop apps that can work with the Stems audio format. Stems is an open file format that lets you individually mix four different musical elements in a track, such as drums, bass, keys… Read More Native Instruments Releases Free Stems Software Developer Kit
