Museum Technicians - The Underground Series 11/14

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Well, you can jolly well smack my bitch up, because we've reached episode 11 at long last, wherein we, Mssrs Cornwell and Braidy, bring the elements of our track together into a storming mix which will act as a proper narnie magnet and generally win us ultimate producer propz."

Technicians - Sherry Sessions - Inspiration Part 2

YouTube via museumoftechno. MISC synth spotting. See this link for more with synths.
"Cornwell is in love with a beautiful lady trance DJ whom he has seen on Youtube. He yearns to express his feelings for her through the medium of pop eurotrance, but is having trouble finding inspiration in the techno and electro house that comprise the Technicians' own record collection.

Can Bassrock Records or Mac Melto's tunes help trigger the killer idea for a trance tune?"

Museum of Techno Sherry Sessions 1 - Cheese


"In our Sherry Sessions, the Technicians of the Museum of Techno take time out of their hectic daily schedule to discuss diverse topics relating to science, philosophy, music and current affairs."

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 1 and 2

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 1


Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 2

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation. We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"

Museum of Techno Radio - Episode 2

"London’s Museum of Techno first opened its doors to the public in 1892. It is home to a fascinating array of early steam-powered drum machines and the James Soame Collection of Booming Kick Drums, the first collection of its type in the world.

Museum of Techno Radio takes us into the sonic world of the Museum, where we make friends with Mr Braidy and Mr Cornwell, the Museum Technicians, and enjoy an audiotour of highlights from the Museum’s exhibitions. We also earwig on the conversations of the various academics, musicians and electronic luminaries who drop into the Museum Cafe for lunch.

Museum of Techno Radio is a series of programmes for Resonance FM produced and sound designed by Dave Pape and Joe Kelly."

Episode 2 will go up tonight here.

Episode 1:

MoT Radio Week 1 - Their Law by museumoftechno

Museum of Techno - Sherry Sessions - Man Scratching

YouTube via museumoftechno. some random synth spotting.
"In which we continue our consideration of the evolution of theistic beliefs and creation myths, and Mr Cornwell recounts a disturbing culinary episode which occurred at the Blue Whale pub in Woolwich."

Museum Technicians - The Underground Series 6/14

YouTube via museumoftechno. Title link takes you to more.

Technicians - Novation Xiosynth 3

YouTube via museumoftechno. More Museum of Techno here.
"In which Braidy and Cornwell enjoy the many rumbustious features of the Novation Xiosynth. And who wouldn't? ... it's the good shit."

Museum Technicians - The Underground Series 14/14

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Evidently, we came to party. In this, the final episode of the legendary Underground TV Tutorial Series, we rock the club with our completed techno track.

Watch your bass bins."

Museum of Techno - Sherry Sessions - Braidy's Tale

YouTube via museumoftechno
"In which Braidy recounts the harrowing situation leading up to his departure from his job at Manchester's Museum of Hard House."

Linn LM-1 Drum Computer and the Oberheim DMX

via Hey, what's that sound on the guardian.uk (click through for the full article). via The Museum of Techno on Twitter (http://twitter.com/museumoftechno)

"What are they? The first drum machines to feature digital sampling. Before the release of Linn's LM-1 Drum Computer in 1980, early drum machines could only synthesise drum sounds out of bursts of white noise or sine waves. The LM-1 and Oberheim's DMX sampled actual drum hits, which could be programmed and manipulated with lovely knobs."

NAMM Diaries Day 1

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation. We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"

Technicians - NAMM Diaries - Day 4 and 5

Technicians - NAMM Diaries - Day 4

YouTube via museumoftechno. Thought I put these up but apparently not.
Cynthia comes in at 1:41. You can see all episodes here.
"Back in January 2007 we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation."

Technicians - NAMM Diaries - Day 5

Dave Smith comes it at 1:04

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 3

YouTube via museumoftechno. Note this is last year's Winter Namm just put up. Day 1 and 2 here.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation.
We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"

Museum Technicians Sherry Sessions: Down to Work

YouTube via museumoftechno
"If we're going to get this trance love song written, we'd better get down to brass tacks and start work. Step 1 - checking our haul of cables to make sure we've got enough cables to set up our equipment so we can test it before configuring it in live studio configuration allowing us to begin the recording and arrangement of the tune."

Museum Technicians - The Underground Series 10/14

YouTube via museumoftechno.

Chiptunes: Dave Green at Games:AV, Oct 2007

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Museum Researcher Dave Green attends the Games:AV chip tunes event at Club 333, London to interview gwEm (http://www.preromanbritain.com) and Jellica (http://www.kittenrock.co.uk ), and to witness the music of musicians such as ZX Spectrum Orchestra (http://www.warmcircuit.com )."

Vegetable Dubstep at Croydon Fun Palace

Published on Oct 4, 2014 museumoftechno

Anyone remember the original Museum of Techno Series? If you haven't seen them be sure to check them out.

The NAMM Diaries - Trailer

"Mssrs Braidy and Cornwell will soon be jetting off to California, and the NAMM Winter 2007 trade show, to report on the event in their own unique way. In this brief trailer, Mr Braidy explains."

The Museum of Techno NAMM Diaries. This ought to be entertaining. YouTube via museumoftechno.

Argiriadis Analogue Electronics

Title takes you the Argiriadis Analogue Electronics website. There is a link to this video on YouTube on vacuum tubes. It's an amazing video in which Theo Argiriadis goes into detail on the desing and characterstics of the sound. Synth content in the video includes some rhythms and sequences running through the vacuum tube. Great video. Found this one on Digital Music Mag.



Notes on the video:
"Theo's an electronics engineer, working in North London and specialising in valves (vacuum tubes). He makes and modifies quality hi-fi, and unique, stunning audio processors. His workshop's amazing too, so after he built me the most detailed distortion box I've ever seen, I asked if I could make a film about him and his work. Contact Theo through www.tube-electronics.co.uk, or me at film@museumoftechno.org"

Update via the comments:
"Hey, thanks for featuring the film! And for using that primo still as the preview... the pale box with the red controls at top right is my distort unit, which is how I got to know Theo.

If any UK MatrixSynth readers are seriously into their valves, and want a totally different and valuable experience buying a piece of beautiful equipment, do have a think about Theo - he says he's not an artist, but there's some deep Macedonian voodoo mixed up with his science!"

Thank you! That truly was an awesome video.