Microscopics has re-released Gas 0095 CD, a cult classic ambient electronic release. You can preview the album above, or download a free track from the album below. All pre-release orders of the Gas 0095 CD come with a free model Minimoog: The 1/8th scale model is modelled on the classic Minimoog model 204D and is pre-cut & scored by hand.
2008 Summer NAMM Show: Numark announced that it is bundling EZ Vinyl Converter 2.1 with all of its USB turntables. Version 2.1 of the software reads incoming audio from a turntable, listening for spaces between songs and automatically breaking the album into individual tracks, freeing the user from standing by the turntable as the record plays… Read More Numark Bundling EZ Vinyl Converter 2.1 Software With Its USB Turntables
The Bob Moog Foundation has filmed a collection of videos that feature musicians, composers and others reflecting on the influence of Bob Moog and the Moog synthesizer. Here are a few of my favorites: Larry Fast, Synergy Eric Persing, Spectasonics Nick Montoya, Volt Per Octive Band It’s a nice start to a living memorial to… Read More Bob Moog Memorial Videos
2008 Summer NAMM Show: Roland announced the TDW-20 Expansion Board for the V-Drums TD-20 Percussion Sound Module. Description: This add-on lets drummers extend the power of their V-Drums with wider dynamics, new sounds, new ambience effects, enhanced V-Editing, and improved functionality. The TDW-20 Expansion Board can be user-installed easily, adding hundreds of new drum and… Read More Roland Unveils TDW-20 Expansion Board
The IBM Glass Engine is designed to enable deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works. The interface is unusual, and takes a few moments to understand, but it lets you navigate Glass’s music in a variety of ways,… Read More The IBM Glass Engine
Roboclarinet is a robotic clarinet player, designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA, that has won first prize at an international orchestra competition. The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine. Staged in Athens, the goal of… Read More Roboclarinet
Michel Waisvisz, leader of the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam since the early eighties, has died. From the STEIM obituary: Michel Waisvisz died peacefully in his home last night after fighting the mean cells in his body for the last eight months. He was born on the 8th of July 1949 and lead STEIM as Director… Read More STEIM’s Michel Waisvisz Has Died
15 years ago, Kevin Kelly (Editor of Wired magazine) and Brian Eno (ambient music guru and super-producer) published a list of “unthinkable futures” – probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking – in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Their intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more… Read More The Unthinkable Futures of Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno
Caught this via Lunchfood, who says: “Look, the New Kids on the Block are really old! And so are you!” Damn! He’s right on both counts. And if you know who the New Kids on the Block are, you’re old, too. Thanks, Lunchfood, for ruining my day! I think I’m going to have to skip… Read More OT: The New Kids On The Block Are Really Old. And They Still Suck
Numark has introduced the iDEC, a professional rack-mount solution offering playback and recording for iPod. iDEC’s Universal Dock for iPod permits playback of audio and video from any docking iPod through integrated outputs. It can also record incoming audio in real time at CD-quality 44.1 kHz sampling rate, directly to the docked iPod. The Numark… Read More Numark iDec Turns iPod Into Recording/Playback Hub
