http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Tir9ewgks Moog Music has announced that it’s bringing back a limited edition run of the Moog Taurus Bass Pedal. These have been used on thousands of classic recordings, especially prog-rock of the 70’s. According to Moog, the most important aspect of the design is to reproduce the original Taurus I sound-engine as faithfully as possible. I’ve… Read More Hell Freezes Over! Moog Reintroduces Taurus Bass Pedal
Hello World, via Bleep Street: Bleepstreet likes 8-bit technology and groovy, filthy and raw data action. After a few years break Bleepstreet is now back to go beyond 8-bit machines as gimmicks. We make gritty electro, playful pop, slow harsh beats, techno, data rock, breakcore and so on, and we don’t see computers as mere slaves under our control.… Read More Hello World!, 8-Bit Style
This short video, Train of thought, is by Hans-Jörg Scheffler and features his work with Omnisphere. Footage was taken looking outside the window from the Shinkanze on the way from Hamamatsu to Tokyo by my good friend Tommy Snyder. I manipulated the raw footage in V-Track and composed the soundtrack with the new Omnisphere Softsynth from Spectrasonics for… Read More Cool Video For Omnisphere Track
This is a quick demo of a prototype of the Quad Multi-Mode Gates. Only the Doepfer monster case was used, everything is just blinking alluringly, attempting to distract you (worked on me!). Doepfer A-155 randomly sequencing a Livewire AFG sine, Doepfer A-147 square wave clocking Doepfer A-149-1/2, Doepfer A-149-2 random gates triggering QMMG CV triggers and… Read More Non-Specific Acid With A Prototype Make Noise QMMG
Tenori-On Dreaming – Composed & Performed by Gianni Proietti using only the Yamaha TENORI-ON.
Experimental sounds and video by James Honzik. Sampled convulsions of steel and concrete mixed on top of color distorted coastal landscapes
Jordan Rudess (Dreamtheater) demos the C-Thru Music AXiS-64 Pro MIDI Controller. Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Music, the arrangement of notes helps you understand note relationships and create as you never have before.
Niladri Kumar’s Priority is an interesting new-age/space music track, and it’s got a really nice animated music video. Kumar plays the Zitar, and electric sitar, and the DnB tabla is kind of cool, too.
The video for Cygnotic Realm‘s Space Harmonics takes you onto a voyage into the space within your mind. They call it space electronica for timeless groovy synthfreaks. Any other timeless groovy synthfreaks out there?
Version 1.0 of Processing, an application for creating audio and visual work, has launched. Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing… Read More Processing Audio/Visual App Now 1.0
