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Get the weekend off to a great start with Mysterious Semblance, which includes a focus on Berlin-school ambience as well as some of the best live performances you will hear.

The Dream Machine by X-Ray Pop will soon be re-released by Dark Entries Records.

“La Machine á Rêver is the B-side to the L’Eurasienne 7″ single by X Ray Pop released in May 1984. It will be re-issued on Dark Entries Records in July 2012 on a compilation of early material by this influential French band. This video first appeared on a collection of scopitones by X Ray Pop recorded at Elysee Sound March 1984. X Ray Pop are Doc Pilot: Casio PT20, MR10, Vocals + Zouka Dzaza: Lead vocals.” – darkentriesrecords.com

For more info: darkentriesrecords.com

http://pittsburghmodular.com/foundation/ The Foundation is a fully modular, eurorack, analog synthesizer. A patchable system styled after the great monosynths of the past with no hardwired signal path or fixed voice architecture to restrict creativity. Driven by two wide range analog oscillators the Foundation produces a huge, warm sound that can’t be matched by digital or VST [...]

This is a short HQ sound demo of the Crumar Trilogy. I played it dry without any additional effects. The Crumar Trilogy is a multi keyboard instrument / string machine from 1981. It has 3 polyphonic sections: ORGAN, SYNTHESIZER and STRING ENSEMBLE. The best about the Trilogy is the polyphonic synth section, which has 2 [...]

The Polivoks is the most popular vintage Russian synth made in the early 80′s and it was among the first synthesizers produced in the USSR. It’s purely analog with two voices of polyphony, two oscillators each with triangle, square, saw, two types of pulse waveforms and one noise generator, the levels of which are controlled [...]

The disco queen has left us at the age of 63: “Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco” whose hits included “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has died, a representative said Thursday. She was 63. Her publicist, Brian Edwards, said Summer was suffering from cancer.” [...]

Playing the Bananaphone Project details at: http://www.gadgetgangster.com I was recently inspired by a Kickstart project which used Bananas as sensors to control a video game on a PC.  I’ve done some video game controls using the Propeller in the past, but I thought this would make an interesting synthesizer project. Parts List: Your favorite Propeller [...]

Workshop exploring connections between the work of Yayoi Kusama and creation and representation of new music & sound art through visual audio interfaces. Presented by Simon Little and Kelvin Brown with Chase Lane. Audio track by Capstone Music Video production by Territory Studio If you’re in London, Infinite Kusama is on view now at the [...]

A close up look at the HackMe Rockit synth: This is a demonstration of some of the sounds and features of this HackMe Rockit synthesizer, designed by Matthew Heinz, which I built from kit a little while back. This demo is less about music and more about the technology and functions of the machine so [...]

Here’s a new sneak preview of a micro-tonal synth: “Looping behavior is close to what I want. Aliasing and impulsing seem to be well under control, and balance is now reasonable.”

Retronyms today updated Tabletop, its virtual studio for the iPad. Here’s what’s new in Tabletop 1.5: CloudSeeder – access the Tabletop Community (powered by SoundCloud) Audio Copy – collaborate with other Apps Module Bundles – discounted collections of in-app add-ons Here’s what Retronyms has to say about it: CloudSeeder makes it easy to publish your [...]

Final call for the Great Church concert of Ron Boots, REMY & friends. Only one day to go...

This Saturday, May 19

Tenori-On and iPad apps, hardware designs and visual creations: set against the beautifully-generative mind of Japanese/New York artist Yayoi Kusama, the flurries of dots and circles and patterns in musical interfaces take on a richer meaning. This video, from a workshop hosted at the Tate Modern alongside an exhibition of Kusama’s work, needs little introduction. Instead, the dizzying cuts of geometric abstraction, the array of visual ideas for musical interface begin to take on the same personality of her expansive creations. The galaxies produced out of the minds of musicians somehow overlap with this iconic artist. I hadn’t really made the connection before, even as a fan of her work, but with this workshop, the sympathetic vibrations – intentional or not – become clear. Description:

Sonic Kusama:
Workshop exploring connections between the work of Yayoi Kusama and creation and representation of new music & sound art through visual audio interfaces.
Presented by Simon Little and Kelvin Brown with Chase Lane.
Audio track by Capstone Music
Video production by Territory Studio

If you’re in London, Infinite Kusama is on view now at the Tate Modern.

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Bye Donna!! You were one bad girl!

“Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco” whose hits included “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has died, a representative said Thursday. She was 63. Her publicist, Brian Edwards, said Summer was suffering from cancer.” – CNN

For more info: donnasummer.com

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The history of electronic music is littered with fights and compromises with nature. Many of the pioneers and experimenters abandoned the idea of imitation in synthesis, composition, and instrument design. Composers like Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Subotnick, and instrument makers like Leon Theremin and Donald Buchla, all embraced the idea that new technology could [...]

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dlab has announced the release APG Composer, a 3-voice FM synth / sequencer app for iPad made from a Simulink model using the APG source code. It is available for free on the iOS app store. APG Co [Read More]

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Full Bucket Music has updated deputy Mark II to version 1.0.1, which is now also available as a 64-bit version for Microsoft Windows x64. Changes: Added 64-bit version. Recompiled 32-bit version. [Read More]

A video demo of the wicked looking Pittsburgh Modular Foundation synthesizer I previously mentioned (link). There are great things happening in the Eurorack modular community. If your don’t already know and are interesting in these type of synths and modules be sure to spend time over at the Muffwiggler forums.

“The Foundation is a fully modular, eurorack, analog synthesizer. A patchable system styled after the great monosynths of the past with no hardwired signal path or fixed voice architecture to restrict creativity. Driven by two wide range analog oscillators the Foundation produces a huge, warm sound that can’t be matched by digital or VST synths. All of the elements of a classic voltage controlled synthesizer are available as an open, patchable, modern synth.” – pittsburghmodular

For more info: pittsburghmodular.com

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Sion Software has announced the release of QuickScore Elite Level II 2012, the latest version of the music composition program for Windows. It is now possible to edit as many bars of notation as will [Read More]