This one came in via Richard Devine – How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop – a new book on the history of the vocoder. That was all it took to sell me on the book – but here’s the book summary: The history of the vocoder: how… Read More How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop
Image: mr.c’s pics Clockwise from bottom left, with equipment in racks listed from top to bottom: Telephone. Analyzing keyboard (outputs to computers). Synthi AKS. Tannoy loudspeaker (behind). KSR-33 Teletype. Rack 1. Filter controls; audio-frequency oscilloscope; DEC tape drives; DEC PDP8/L (“Leo”). Rack 2. High-frequency oscilloscope; filter controls; potentiometer bank; frequency counter; Wavetek oscillator; 32K hard… Read More EMS Studio, 1970
Free Windows Music Software: This is a demo of AudioBulb‘s Sophia (.zip), a free Windows synthesizer designed to create ambiences and modulated sound effects: The initial sound generation results from the accumulation of 4 oscillators and a sub-harmonic wave table. Multiple stages of delay and reverb combine with various low pass / band pass filtering… Read More Free Ambient Music Synthesizer For Windows
Free Music Friday: This is a an extended improvisation from synthesis Richard Lainhart, recorded Friday 3/26/10: The audio track from my complete live ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com) set from March 26, 2010, available as a high-datarate downloadable stereo MP3. The music is structured improvisations for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum, processed with a Boss RE-20 Space Echo… Read More Free Music Download From Richard Lainhart
Gumby on the E-Mu Modular Synthesizer System, via The Chemical Brothers.
The Chemical Brothers have announced a new album – Further – to be released June 7th: It starts with what sounds like an alien morse code transmission; Earth bound signals bouncing off the side of orbiting space debris. Snatches of voices found out in the ether cut through the machine fog, drifting across burbling analogue… Read More The Chemical Brothers’ Further – New Album Out June 7th
Here’s a nice acid synth jam, via Richard Devine. Pretty sweet, eh? Anybody else want to hear direct audio on Devine’s next synth jam?
You might not realize this, but even in a synthesizer-filled utopia like Synthtopia, there are Zombies to deal with. Why? Five Reasons You Have To Worry About Zombies: Evil scientists – according to the bell curve – half of all scientists are actually evil; Radiation – Nuclear, X-Ray, Solar – they all end the same… Read More Remix Music + Win A Zombie Defense Kit! Plus – The Top 5 Causes For Zombies
Getting Started With Audacity 1.3 is a new book that discusses how to create podcasts and edit music with the free & open source audio editor Audacity. Topics covered: Learn to use the Audacity software–what it is, how to install it, and all of its main features Learn setting up projects and how to record… Read More Getting Started With Audacity 1.3
UK readers take note – the place to be April 24th is the London Modular Meet. 11am-5pm Kingston College Of Art And Design Penny School Gallery Kt2 5Bp Via Mark on Facebook
