MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, July 7, 2006


Friday, July 07, 2006

Threnody For Oscilloscope, Filter, and Organ on YouTube



Mesmerizing. YouTube by benoqo3. Sent my way via Ben.

Update via Ben: "you might also like an almost entirely analog high comedy version of "all by myself" on my myspace page. korg ms20, paia modular, bit of heavily treated farfisa, and an old string synth."
It's pretty cool actually. And I like Skinny Puppy. : )

Gakki Taisho-Goto

Here's an interesting one in via slabman:

"Thanks for your blog - hours of endless joy!

In the background of the SMS200 pics, there's a poster for gakki.com. Browsing that site I came across this page on the taisho-goto

A regular taisho-goto is like a hybrid of a lapsteel and a typewriter. If you scroll down on this page though, you find some Frankensteins with loads of added buttons & blinkenlights (pictured). Gawd knows what they do (text is in Japanese), but I want one of each to equip my robot synth assault troop. Who knows what other monsters lurk on gakki.com..."

Very cool. Thanks slabman!

Ufoseries

Looks like something from another one of my synth dreams. I'm guessing that's not actually synth. If you know anything about the device/prop, feel free to comment. Title link takes you to the Ufoseries site with more low-fi sci-fi pics. Enjoy Carbon111. ; )

via fmasseti.

Update via Tim in the comments:

That's one of Moonbase's communication consoles if I'm not mistaken.

There have been many fan ideas on why the Moonbase women wore wigs. The simple explaination is that Sylvia Anderson, who had a strong hand in the costume designs, liked wigs and thought they might become standard parts of uniforms in the future.

Series lead Ed Bishop also wore a wig for much of the series, but this was for practical reasons. The bleach used to make his brown hair blonde was damaging it.

Unfortunately Bishop and co-star Michael Billington(Col. Paul Foster) died within a week of each other last year.

ATV/ITC, the backers for the series, eventually edited several episodes together as Invasion UFO for theatrical release. They used some fast synth driven piece as the title music, and it sounds incredibly familiar, as if it was used as a theme for some tv news or sports show. I thought it might be something by Rick Wakeman for some reason, but I doubt I'm right."

Berlin Techno City 1993

Title link takes you to the video. Google really needs to let you embed to compete with YouTube.

via sequencer.de

Eugene Noise Fest

Title link takes you there.

via Brian Comnes.

The SWAN


Is it real? : ) Click here for more.

The Cosmic Blooper - Circuit Bent Atari 1200



"demo of cosmic blooper #1200 working with casio sk1"

Title link takes you to the Cosmic Blooper site. Here's a link to some shots pulled form this auction. More on GetLoFi.

doepfer vocoder - New Flickr Shot

flickr via synthfan_bob.

Aries Modular

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. The seller also has an Encore Electronics Frequency Shifter listed.

Synthesizers.com History

Title link takes you to an interesting bit of synth history. When Synthesizers.com first came about people questioned whether it was real or another hoax like the Bahn Sage.

"Monday morning I woke up to many dozens of emails with 'synthesizers.com' in the subject. Wow, something has happened - but what? As I start reading them, some are not very nice. This is a unexpected slap in the face for 3 years work, but why? Come to find out, a few weeks/months earlier, a prankster had posted a professionally created set of graphics depicting a new synth which had duped many people. Not being a reader of the Analog Heaven mail list, I missed the story. Paul Schrieber of Synthesis-Technology who lives nearby told me about it at lunch one day but I had no idea it was such a big deal and caused such a big stink. Anyway, this caused many folks to assume my work was another plot to overthrow the analog synth world. They began by pixel-picking the Q119 Sequencer picture which caused me a lot of grief to create. This was compounded by my whimsical depiction of a synth monolith linked to the home page. And I was so proud of my new found PhotoShop abilities too! On top of that, there were even questions about the photographs I had taken on the About Us page which were only cropped before placing on the website."

It's a fascinating read and it really makes you wonder about the SMS 2000. Another manufacturer that was questioned was Cwejman. I remember when renders first appeared of the S1. People questioned whether it was yet another hoax.

Elhardt even had a little fun:
"Just like the Cwejman and Dotcom, I kind of wanted people to suspect me. I
even faked a picture of a Cwejman sitting in my rack to just lead people
into thinking it was a hoax. That makes it more fun. I prefer to just keep
quiet and make people suspicious."

Well, Cwejman and Synthesizers.com are most definitely real. The SMS 2000? Time will tell. The one thing to note is that with both Synthesizers.com and Cwejman, the manufacturers and others came out relatively quickly, putting the rumors of a hoax to rest. That hasn't happened with the SMS 2000 yet. Anyone out there know anything? : )

Bassstation - New Flickr Shot

flickr by HumphreyB.

Filter - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Gotimmy.
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