Best Shop Window Ever?
Saturday Synth Porn: Best store window ever? We’re pretty sure that the windows display at Switched On Music Electronics (Austin) has to be high on the list….. via Switched On
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Steampunk Music Visualizer Dances To ‘Baroque Hoedown’
Artists Mathew Kneebone and Yuri Suzuki created the project 6 Rubens Tubes Visualizer – a sort of steampunk music visualizer that uses wave flame tubes to use musical waves to modulate flames: the antique physics equipment consisting of wave flame tubes or simple flame tubes has been reconfigured by the two designers to dance in time… Read More Steampunk Music Visualizer Dances To ‘Baroque Hoedown’
Open Mic: What’s The Best Synth Song Of All Time?
At the beginning of the 70’s, synthesizers were largely considered a novelty. There were dozens of novelty ‘switched on’ albums, ranging from Switched On Beatles to Switched On Buck. By the end of the decade, though, Keith Emerson had blown minds with his synth solo on Lucky Man, Kraftwerk had created the template for synth… Read More Open Mic: What’s The Best Synth Song Of All Time?
Switched On Handel
Handel Modular fuga g-minor HWV 605 was uploaded by: powerofthetruth
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Popcorn Tag Team Synth Jam
Reader Laurent Pelletier sent word about this very nicely done collaborative synth jam cover of the original synth pop classic, Popcorn. Thirteen members of the French audio forum Audiokeys worked together to make the video, a cover of Gershon Kingsley’s 70’s hit. “We are very different about our musical tastes,” notes Pelletier. “Our gear starts from the Stylophone up to… Read More Popcorn Tag Team Synth Jam
Switched On Bach On Guitar Synth
SHREDDER for iPhone: Synth for Guitar TEASER was uploaded by: YonacSoftware
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Merry Synthmas From GForce
Melly Xmas was uploaded by: GForceSoftwareTV
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More Switched-On Nutcracker Tracks
Free Music Friday: The Hybiscus Journals, who brought you a switched-on rendition of the Arabian Dance from Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic, The Nutcracker, last year, have been at it again. Now available for free download are two more installments from the suite – the March and the Chinese Dance. All sounds were produced on either Sequential… Read More More Switched-On Nutcracker Tracks
Bob Moog & Early Experimental Moog Music
The latest episode of The Tone Generation podcast explores experimental (and library music in the form of Roger Roger/Cecil Leuter) music created on the Moog range of synthesisers. Don’t be expecting Switched On Bach and Keith Emerson fare. As usual with The Tone Generation, it’s all about sharing some of the lesser known early electronic… Read More Bob Moog & Early Experimental Moog Music
Switched On Holst – Mars, The Bringer Of War
Classitronica: Reader Mike Leghorn sent word, via the synthesizer forum, about his progress on a new synthesized arrangement of Holst’s The Planets. So far, Leghorn has completed his versions of Mars and Mercury. Tackling The Planets is a huge and interesting undertaking. Tomita did a seminal synth cover in the 70’s, along with Patrick Gleeson.… Read More Switched On Holst – Mars, The Bringer Of War
