This GearWire demo video looks at the vocoder features of the Alesis Micron. The Alesis Micron is an 8-voice, 3-octave analog modeling synthesizer. The micron’s compact design delivers the power of large synthesizers like the Alesis Ion (the Micron is compatible with Ion programs).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqEPnqSvLs This video captures a performance of Blowjob, a experimental exploration of controlled feedback. If you’re in London, you may want to check out the Dec 12 IMT performance, which will feature Wojciech Kosma’s recent compositions, Headfuck and Blowjob, a composition by Berlin based artist Oliver Laric, and an appearance by Polish new-media artist Jan Simon.… Read More Totally NSFW: Avant Garde Music Performance Looks A Lot Like Oral Sex
This is a demo of the Analogue Systems rs35 External Processor eurorack synthesizer module, being used to control a modular synthesizer with an electric guitar. The rs35 is a frequency (or pitch) to voltage converter. It can turn virtually any sound source into a one volt per octave voltage allowing you to control an analog… Read More Using A Guitar To Play A Modular Synthesiser
jetdaisuke does his thing with the Korg nanoKey.
This is the trailer for DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s large scale multimedia performance work: an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. Description: The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field recordings… Read More DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite
Matthew Davidson (Stretta) demos the Analoque Systems French Connection. Based upon the Ondes Martenot, the French Connection is a unique controller for virtuoso performance. By placing a finger through the ring suspended below the physical keyboard the player can smoothly glide between notes by moving the playing hand from left to right, and create natural vibrato… Read More Matthew Davidson Demos The French Connection
This Tiptop Audio video features the Z3000’s doing the Bass drum and Snare drum and the two Z5000 are saturated making the HH’s. MFB Drum sequencer clocked by LFO triggers the sounds. All the outputs are then mixed with the Plan B mixer, playing the switches to open and close the sounds.
Gearwire takes a look at the Muse Receptor, IK Multimedia Total Workshop Edition in the studio. The Muse Receptor is a hardware VST host. This edition comes preloaded with an array of software from IK Multimedia.
Darkmatter, by Brazilian multimedia designer Nagash, is sort of an experimental electronic music acid trip. The audio signal is generated from the animation.
This video, Where Are You?, captures Stretta (Matthew Davidson) playing a French Connection controller against a looping phrase. If you listen carefully to the phrase, the pulses change slightly throughout the composition. The French Connection is controlling a small collection of modules including a Cwejman VCO-RM2, MMF1, Plan B model 11 and Doepfer VCA. The left hand… Read More Gorgeous French Connection Synth Work
