MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, August 14, 2006


Monday, August 14, 2006

Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman Live

For those of you in the Seattle, San Francisco or Los Angeles area, here's your chance to see one of the pioneers of electronic music, Jean-Jacques Perrey along with Dana Countryman. You can read more about Perrey's influence on wikipedia. Title link takes you to more info on the shows. They play Seattle on August 27, San Franscisco on August 29, Hollywood on August 31, and a special in store meet and great at Analogue Haven on August 30. That would be a pretty sweet gear fest.

Here are links to some excerpts:
Chicken On The Rocks
Furioso Disco
Atomic Twist
Harry's Rag
Podcast Interview

Via Dana Countryman on his gear and the upcoming shows:

"Hi Friends,

Jean Jacques Perrey and I have finished recording our upcoming MOOG CD. It will be out on September 25th, on Oglio Records.

We'll be doing special concerts in Seattle (Aug. 27th), San Francisco (Aug. 29th) and Hollywood (Aug. 31st).
Please check our web sites for more info.

http://www.jean-jacquesperrey.com
http://www.danacountryman.com"

"I have a big ol' modular synth in my home studio.

link

It's mostly Dotcom, with about 25% MOTM modules. I've been working with the legendary Jean-Jacques Perrey for the last couple of years, and we've just completed a new CD of crazy, "Moog" tunes. It comes out on Oglio Records next month.

We're doing a series of concerts on the West Coast at the end of this month to promote the CD. BTW, these are the FIRST concerts that Jean-Jacques has ever done in AMERICA. At age 77, he is still going strong, but who knows what will happen in the future. He is still one creative and brilliant guy, and it's a pleasure to be so lucky to work with him.

Meanwhile, I'm continuing to add to my modular -- trying out different modules from various companies, - selling off ones I don't use, etc. I have no problem, having a "Franken-synth"!"

The Sounds of Stars

Make sure to check out badscience.net for more, including Don Kutz, the man recording space.

Via The Mail article:
"The astrophysicist said: 'The stars have sounds in them. In a sense they ring like giant bells or musical instruments. One of them sounds like African drumming and has been used in nightclubs in Belgium for youngsters keen on dance music.'"

"Stars vibrate at very low frequencies which have been boosted so they can be heard by humans. Each star has a unique sound - while some resemble a beating heart, others are more like an orchestra tuning up.

The vibrations are caused by reactions in the intensely hot core, creating waves of pressure that ripple through to the surface.

Because space is empty, the sounds cannot be carried to Earth. But the vibrations constantly affect the stars' brightness, the changes in which can be measured and converted back into sound.

The 'voice' of each star typically covers a couple of octaves in the range of musical notes it produces. The sound of the Sun, which pulses every five minutes, would have to be about 12 octaves higher for the deep rumbling to be audible to humans."

Title link takes you to the full article with samples. Also if this topic intersts you, check out this post on the rings of Saturn.

Note on sending me stuff

Just an FYI, but if you send me anything make sure it doesn't look like robot spam. Every now and then I get an email with something like, "I think you'll like this" or "check this out" with a link. I have no idea if it's someone sending me something synth related or if it's spam. I always err on the side of caution so it goes straight to the garbage bin. So, if you are going to send me something, please make sure it obviously for the site and not spam. BTW, I reply to all of my emails whether with a quick thanks or more, so if you don't hear back from me within a day, I probably thought it was spam and deleted it.

Update: Also if you want a link back to your site for the "via link" please be sure to include it even if you have sent it in the past. I'm bad at remembering people's URLs. : )

Concerto for a Vocoded Ring by Shepitology

Here's an interesting one. Grondo of Shepitology used his wedding ring to tap the microphone on a Kord MicroKorg to play lead with it's vocoder.

"I played the melody with my left hand while tapping on the connected microphone with the ring."

Title link takes you to the post and a link to the track.

ZomZoms on YouTube



via Greg.

Yusynth DIY

Title link takes you to Yusynth DIY. You will find information on known DIY manufacturers and a ton of custom designs. The following is an example of some of what you can expect. via sequencer.de.

"The ARP4072 filter equipped mostly the famous ARP2600 semi-modular synthesizer. I always wanted to build one. In the first place I gave a try to the EFM VCF7b. After correcting some PCB design errors I found this filter was sounding real great.

Eventually, I designed my own version of this filter. I have included in the design an input buffer stage and an ouptut buffer stage. The output buffer stage is also used to compensate the loss of low frequencies that is generally observed at high resonance in 24db/octave filters such as the famous Moog ladder. Curiously enough, neither Bob Moog nor Alan Ron Pearlman cared to compensate for this loss. This is strange knowing that it is quite a simple modification. Such compensation was introduced by Roland for the filter of their nowadays very sought after TB303!

On the two boards I built of this filter I obtained pure sinewave auto-oscillation at high resonance within the range 20Hz-20kHz, for the first board, and within the range 60Hz-20kHz for the second board. My design uses japanese dual transistors (2SA798). Because people may have difficulties to source 2SA798 I have also designed a PCB to use regular PNP transistors (BC557), however I have not tested this second design yet."
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