John Foxx in the studio

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New fruit-based MIDI-controller

Check out this video with Dr. Robert Schneider and Elijah Wood presenting a new kind of synth controller: By the way, the new Apples in Stereo record is here

Telemark vs. SEM

I really like the looks of the new Telemark synth from Analogue Solutions. After selling my small synthesizers.com modular I’m looking into buying a new modular, and maybe the Telemark could be the start of a new system? Anyway, here’s a great demo of the new synth. Below is a demo of the original Oberheim [...]

OSC Controller nearly finished

The C++-based OSC-controler I’ve been working on for my master degree in music technology is nearly finished. Here is a screenshot: As you can see it’s on Windows, but since I’ve been using the openFrameworks library, it should be possible to compile it for Mac and Linux as well. The sound is generated in Max. [...]

Playmodes & OpenFrameworks

I want to show you some of the cool things that can be done with OpenFrameworks. I start by showing the projects of someone who calles themselves Playmodes. They have made an audiovisual sampler, using Native Instruments Reaktor for the sounds (controlling it via OSC) and OF for recording, manipulating and playback of video. It [...]

New music march 09

I just fell in love with the music of Bat for Lashes (mypsace: http://www.myspace.com/batforlashes). Natasha Khan is so gifted and she also has an experimental edge to her music. Her new album is called Two Suns and is released april 6. Daniel is the latest single. Read an interview with Natasha Khan here And another [...]

A peek into Richard Devines studio

Electronic artist Richard Devine makes very interesting but intensive music in the Aphex Twin/Autchre domain.  He has a nice studio in Altlanta. There’s a feature on Richard Devine and his studio on the electron-users netsite, read it now as PDF. Listen to his music at Myspace Also check out http://www.richard-devine.com/

Brian Eno Goes Soft

I usually avoid writing about apple products, but this video is ok: It’s Brian Eno’s ambient music application for Iphone or Ipod Touch. Just flick your finger on the screen and piano tones pops up. It’s relaxing!

Cool organic synth thing

I stumbled across a brilliant post on Synthopia, a video showing a demo of the project the Sound of Touch. The instrument is made by David Merrill at MIT and is based on using a contact microphone and DSP to record and manipulate the sounds. I’m glad to see that there’s still some good ideas [...]

Synapse – The Electronic Music Magazine

The Synapse synth magazine from the late 70′s is full of goodies for all synth enthusiasts out there. Scanned gif-images of the magazine pages can be found on this web page. In the magazine you will find interesting interviews with among others Brian Eno, Tom Oberheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Schneider/Hutter, Todd Rundgren, Herbie Hancoc and Bob [...]