Digging In The Crates

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation that lets visitors explore sampling as a production technology of contemporary music.

March 23, 2010March 22, 2010Leave a comment

Symphony of Science’s The Poetry of Reality

Symphony of Science – The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science) was uploaded by: melodysheep
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February 25, 20102 Comments

Neurosonics Live

This video, from Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc., carries on head-spinning visual of the original Neurosonics video. via Chris Cairns: Holographic Drumkit and Turntables test. DRUMS: WILL CLARK TURNTABLES: JFB HEADS: BEARDYMAN

February 23, 20105 Comments

Secrets Of The Optigan

Optigan.com’s Pea Hix demonstrates how the memorable music from this recent Chrysler Town & Country, above, was created using sound from an Optigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrGUJzA3a8 The Optigan was a home keyboard that was a proto-sampler. It used a photomechanical playback mechanism to read soundwaves from film disks.

February 1, 2010December 27, 20163 Comments

Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Trillian At NAMM 2010

Spectrasonics’ Eric Persing introduces their updates for Trillian, Omnisphere and their new Spectrasonics iPhone app. The iPhone app seems like more trouble than it’s worth – but Trillian and Omnisphere are both amazingly powerful and great-sounding. via SonicState

January 24, 2010Leave a comment

Create Your Own Multi-Sample Instruments

This video tutorial, via Brian at NextStepAudio, demonstrates how you can create your own multi-sampled instruments.

January 22, 20101 Comment

The Fate Of The Birotron, Rick Wakeman’s Super-Mellotron

At the 2010 NAMM Show, director Dianna Dilworth presented her documentary Mellodrama, which explores the history of the Mellotron. Featured in the documentary is the extremely rare Birotron, which was a variation on the tape sample idea, but using 8-track tape loops.

January 19, 2010Leave a comment