Sonic Immersion has an interesting interview with ambient electronic music pioneer Steve Roach. In the interview, Roach touches on his renewed interest in analog synthesizers: I have been using vintage analogue gear all along in some basic ways as I consider the Oberheims the core to my sound and I never let go of these. They… Read More Steve Roach On Analog Synthesizers
Peter Tod Lewis, Director of the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios from 1968-1980, created an audio introduction to the Moog synthesizer in 1979. The multi-part series provides a perspective from the past on the synthesizer and its role in classical electronic music studio. Here are links to each of the segments in the series:… Read More An Audio Introduction To The Moog Synthesizer
Never underestimate the power of scantily-clad women. Duran Duran’s Rio has been named the greatest music video of all time in an MTV poll. The 1982 video, featuring the band in suits on a Caribbean beach being teased by scantily-clad women, beat favorites such as Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Madonna’s Like a Prayer to claim… Read More The Best Video Ever: Duran Duran’s Rio
Sarah Albu’s Clavivox cake. It doesn’t really look anything like any Clavivox I’ve seen, but it looks a lot tastier. Raymond Scott, who designed the Clavivox, would have been 100 years old September 10th. While Scott is known to some for his pioneering work in electronic music, his 30’s recordings with his “Quintette” are his… Read More Happy Birthday To Raymond Scott
midiO is an Audio Unit designed to let you control your hardware synths from Garageband. The plugin lets you drive a MIDI based synthesizer with one or more GarageBand tracks. Changes since 1.14: Universal binary Supports generation of midi clock messages Improved timing of generated midi messages. Reduced processor load Improved documentation This new version… Read More midiO Lets You Control Hardware Synths With Garageband
Electric Western – a new company making an all-tube synth – has moved to New Mexico: They haven’t updated their site much during the move, but here’s an update on the upcoming Phantastron: All the parts for the Phantastron release in October are in stock or on the way. I also have some spiffy mods,… Read More Electric Western Moves To New Mexico
Sonic-Core has announced that starting later this month, they will publish The John Bowen Chronicles, with new installments every few weeks, leading up to the release of the SOLARIS synthesizer. John Bowen was involved in the development of many legends in synthesizer history – the Prophet 5, the Prophet VS and the Prophet T-8 by Sequential… Read More Coming Soon: The John Bowen Chronicles
Goldbaby Productions has released another pack of free samples. This sample pack features some CR-78 Rex files that didn’t get used in Tape Drum Machines Vol 2. The Roland CR-78 Compurhythm is considered to be one of the world’s first programmable drum machines. You can find Goldbaby’s CR-78 files, along with their other free downloads, here. via Rekkerd
The Chemical Brothers have launched Midnight Madness with Google Earth – a strange mashup that takes fan videos and plots them on Google Earth. The idea is that you can surf around the world with Google Earth and see what Chemical Brothers fans are up to. Here’s the link to view the project (requires Google… Read More Chemical Brothers Google Earth Mashup
Unidentified Sound Objects has posted pictures that offer a sneak peak inside the Radio Italiana Phonology Studio, a pioneering Italian electronic music studio: In 1955, the Radio Italiana (Rai) established the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at RAI Center in Corso Sempione 27, Milan (Italy). Physicist Dr. Alfredo Lietti builded the famous “nine oscillators”, the white… Read More Inside the Radio Italiana Phonology Studio
