Hamsterdunce #20 - 20-Oct-2009

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Hamsterdunce by Dave

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A little synth art from the maker of The Packrat.

"Synths & keytars will probably make semi-regular appearances, mainly because I like them & I'm the man with the pen..."

Be sure to see Hamsterdunce for more.

BTW, check out the "matrix" Packrat on the right of this site for a little something Dave made me back in 2006. Very, very cool.

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Hamsterdunce #9

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The Leper - live prog keyboard million-note performance

YouTube via hamsterdunce

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Here's another version of my original song "The Leper" from my album "umop apisdn." Performed live at the Downtown Cafe in quasi-beautiful Bristol, CT."

The white Roland JD-800 on the lose. Note hamsterdunce is David C. Lovelace of http://umop.com/. He is the man behind The Packrat (scroll and click on the images when you get there), and he does the artwork for Metasonix. He also did the Matrix Packrate drawing for me on the right of this site. :) Dave rocks. You can find more info on his music projects including videos here, man of which have been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

Hamsterdunce #41

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"The client is actually a renowned German company called Sidsonic; they want to use some of my artwork for their planned Kontakt soundbank/library of Metasonix noises. Pretty cool!"

Hamsterdunce #22

See the write-up and more at Hamsterdunce. Note each comic strip has a real life analogy. I hear from the creator Dave many will feature synths. You might recognize Dave from these prior posts and of course umop.com.

Hamsterdunce #63

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Fast-fingered quick demo of ARP 2600

YouTube via hamsterdunce
"More music on umop.com! This one-minute quick demo just scratches the surface of the ARP, an incredibly fun vintage modular that I got to mess around with a Analog Heaven Northeast on May 2nd, 2009."
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"Cowboys From Hell" by Pantera - performed on TOY PIANOS by a ridiculous idiot

Published on Jun 4, 2016 hamsterdunce

"COWBOYS FROM HELL, HAIL YUSS - more radness to be found on umop.com and please subscribe to Hamsterdunce and blarbirty blar blarrr keyboards whoooo"

A new classic track from MATRIXSYNTH Member, David C. Lovelace. Check his site out! You'll find plenty of whacked up sights & sounds there.

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The Confines - original instrumental electro-prog lounge-shred - Parallax

Published on Nov 11, 2015 hamsterdunce

"Here's an old unreleased Parallax song played on a Korg SV-1 RV. The sequence is naturally from a floppy-disk-fueled Korg O1/W from 1990-something, so the drums are primitive, to say the least. The lobsters are just there to keep us company.

Parallax CDs, artifacts of a synthesizer Utopia that is both fun and treacherous to visit, are available at umop.com/parallax.htm"

David C. Lovelace of Parallax aka hamsterdunce is a supporter of MATRIXSYNTH!

A Little Noodling Around on a Moog Voyager XL at the Moog Factory

A little noodling around on a Moog Voyager XL at the Moog factory SOUND LAB!

YouTube Published on Sep 18, 2012 by hamsterdunce

"More music at umop.com/parallax.htm

The wife and I were lucky enough to get a tour of the Moog factory in Asheville, NC recently, and while there I spent a little while in the sound lab making spacey noises. It was like being inside my own brain. I could have set up a tent in there."

Dave aka hamsterdunce is the author of The Packrat series and the man responsible for much of the artwork on Metasonix products.

AHNE 2015 - a terrifying room full of synthesizers and their insanely lucky owners

Published on May 17, 2015 hamsterdunce

"Another month of May, another annual Analog Heaven NorthEast (AHNE) gathering. This year it all went down at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, in the rotunda of the Genko Uchida Building. Most people don't even get to see this kind of stuff in person, let alone touch it. One attendee called it a 'Synth Petting Zoo.'

This video breezes around the entire room in an almost unfairly brief fashion. Around every turn there was yet another mind-burrowing megapile of cables and knobs waiting for a scientist with a 300 I.Q. to actually figure out how to use. One presented even had a brainwave interface.

Granted, on a music level, there was about as much soul in the room as a stale can of tuna fish, but this gear isn't about soul. It's about building a sonic robot army in your basement and terrorizing your neighbors at 3AM.

Subscribe to my channel for more occasional synth-related videos, and check out umop.com for art, animation, and other craparoni."

Subdivisions on lotsa keyboards

YouTube via hamsterdunce, aka Dave of umop, The Packrat and more.

Funhouse by Parallax -- synth keyboard guitar prog rock!

YouTube via hamsterdunce
"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

An extremely wankerific tune off my Parallax album "umop apisdn." Why not order one today, so you can help pay for more fancy shirts?"

My kitten plays keyboards better than me.

YouTube via hamsterdunce
"An outtake of a recent video interview I made for SonicState.com when my Himalayan kitten (Dusty) steals the show and starts playing synth music behind me that actually sounds pretty friggin' good. That jerk. It's bad enough that he's better looking, but I figured I at least had all the talent up in here's."

AHNE 2010: Analog Heaven Northeast - event room flyby!

YouTube via hamsterdunce — April 26, 2010 — "More music on umop.com/parallax.htm. Here's the 2010 gathering of Northeastern synth nerds! Incredible modulars & vintage analog synthesizers of all shapes, sizes, and tones."

"Conflict" - Epic original synth prog solo!

YouTube via hamsterdunce

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

Here's a tremendously epic speed solo & prog rock synth nightmare for you to feast your brainholes on, kiddies! The entire song employs a supersaw zaptron patch of my own creation on the amazing white Roland JD-800, with squelchy vintage '90s backing track crapola on the Korg 01W. No, no direct line input. First of all, I wanted you to hear the slamming finger slams. And secondly, SLAMMY SLAM SLAM"

The custom white Roland JD-800 is from CustomSynth.

Moog Memorymoog Plus - shredding demo - 18 oscillators of pure analog power

YouTube via hamsterdunce | July 16, 2010
via this auction
"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

This is an amazingly huge and beefy synthesizer. I am selling it for a friend of mine, but not until I've had a couple of days to play with it! It is the thickest, wettest, fattest synthesizer among at least a hundred that I've owned & played over the years. When I turn up the Cutoff 100% with the Emphasis at zero, the sky rips open and writhing Lovecraftian demons descend upon my condo complex, raining down javelins of sonic plasma into the fabric of ultimate blabbity blabbity you get the idea.

This is an auction demo so there's a few dry moments here and there where I'm autotuning and testing all 67 keys chromatically, but I kept it shreddy enough to hopefully entertain my faithful subscribers for a few minutes."

1984 - Van Halen - classic sweepy synth intro - Korg Karma

Published on Jan 13, 2016 hamsterdunce

"Bucause I'm an insufferable nerd, I messed around with the Van Halen intro to "Jump" on a Korg Karma that I picked up on eBay for about twelve bucks, give or take $413."

Great ending to this one. ;)