Happy Birthday Bob Moog! by timtsang3

YouTube Published on May 22, 2012 by timtsang3

"In Honor of Dr. Robert Moog, inventor of the famous Minimoog Synthesizer and so much more."

Five Twenty Six.

YouTube Uploaded by timtsang3 on Mar 23, 2011

"Five Twenty Six. 2011.
Moog Voyager in real-time, on pre-recorded drum beat consisting of kick, hi-hat, and snare sound samples, with additional drum loop at 120 beats per minute.
(5 minutes, 26 seconds)

By Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "Moogist"."

"Scratch From Scratch"

YouTube via timtsang3
"So after losing my 1 TB external HD full of my sounds and beats and 300 gigs of itunes this week,
I decided to start "from scratch" and make music with a fresh mind. Yay!

PS: Thank you to all my friends and fans for your sweet support - you are much appreciated. Moogist loves feedback!! Leave a comment, send me an email, postcard, chocolate, candy - whatever - I'd love to hear from you!


www.moogist.com
moogist@gmail.com"

Skream VS Moog Mashup

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"Moogist jamming out to "Explode", a track by Skream.

Sept 29, 2009.

www.moogist.com
moogist@gmail.com"

Moogist Talks - What Can You Do With 1 Note?

YouTube via timtsang3. via twitter.com/TaraBusch
"What can you do with a single note/sound? Besides its legendary tone, the Moog Synthesizer is known for its monophonic nature - the ability to produce only 1 note at a time. Therefore, the goal of The Moogist is to "think outside the box" with this certain limitation - whatever it takes - to make beautiful music with this amazing machine/instrument.

"Moogist Talks"
A short film by Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "The Moogist"
August 2009

*Moogist plays the "Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue"
Picture of Voyager taken by Wowee Posadas

www.moogist.com
www.moogmusic.com"

The Moogist - "Attitude"

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"For more info please contact Tim at moogist@gmail.com"

The Moogist -"Music is Finished" - Glenn Gould Mashup

2011

YouTube via timtsang3 | January 09, 2011 |

"new sounds for the new year and the new ear. happy 2011 everyone!
www.facebook.com/moogistmusic"

MOOGIST: Scratch Session 1 - "Hyperscratch"

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"Moogist working on his scratching chops at home.
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moogist@gmail.com"

Presets are for the weak.

ADORNO Essays on Music pp. 659-660 (Moogist Commentary)

YouTube via timtsang3 | January 22, 2011 |

"In the most advanced and acoustically sensitive compositions today there is a yawning discrepancy between the blocks that have been joined together, layered, so to speak, and are often astonishingly through-composed in themselves, and the overall structure. It is as if there were no mediation connecting the unprecedented articulation of the details with the equally magnificently through-composed totality; as if the two things were joined together according to principles of construction, but as if these principles of construction were not capable of realization in living phenomena. Mediation is lacking in the banal, as well as in the strict sense. In the banal sense, links are lacking between the individual sounds, in which everything is concentrated. In the strict sense, the events in themselves do not want to transcend themselves; the structure remains largely abstract in relation to them. Until now, integration frequently has become impoverishment. One can observe, along with an extreme increase in compositional means, a kind of regression to homophony. As I described this, borrowing an expression of Boulez's, blocks are being added together, rather than lines being drawn. Hardly any harmonic tensions are created; hardly any complementary harmonies; hardly any monodic, much less polyphonic lines. This shrinkage is out of all proportion to the compositional expenditure of means and construction. It may have something to do with what one can call the preponderance of extras, of the extra-musical in the most recent music, which Schnebel identified as one of the most characteristic phenomena of its development. It is as if music, by using noise, bruitistic effects, and then optical, especially mimetic ones, wanted to make up part of what it is temporarily blocked from achieving in the way of immanent unfolding. Those actions, however, frequently have something aimless about them. Dada turns into l'art pour l'art, and this is hard to reconcile with the idea of dada. Frequently a music is assembled that actually doesn't want to go anywhere. Against this it is argued, above all by electronic composers, that it is a matter of providing materials. If I once said that electronic compositions sounded like Webern on a Wurlitzer, that is unquestionably out of date. But on the other side there is always some primitiveness of results that remains unmistakable in relation to the technical effort. In general, it is probably difficult to develop means independent of the purpose, the quality of what is composed with them. I would like to mention at least one symptom that struck me recently and that perhaps also has something to do with the complex of difficulties - the phenomenon of the restraining of impulses; that music is constantly moving, wanting to develop, but breaks off again as if under a spell. Whether this spell expresses the one that we live under, whether it, too, is a symptom of ego-weakness or compositional inadequacy, is something on which I would not like to pass judgement.

I only wanted to make you aware of all this; not to prophesy or postulate anything. Music today sees itself faced with an alternative, that between the fetishism of the material and the process, on the one hand, and unfettered chance, on the other. A statement by Christian Dietrich Grabbe occurred to me that once greatly impressed me: "For nothing but despair alone can save us." Everything lies with spontaneity, i.e., the involuntary reaction of the compositional ear, quand meme. But if one composes in deadly earnest, one must ultimately ask whether it is not all becoming ideological nowadays. Therefore, one must confront the possibility of its falling silent non-metaphorically and without the consolation that it cannot go on that way. What Beckett expresses in his dramas, and above all in his novels, which sometimes babble like music, has its truth for music itself. Perhaps only that music is still possible which measures itself against this greatest extreme, its own falling silent."

-Theodor W. Adorno
Essays On Music, pp. 659-660."

BEETHOVEN 5th Meets Moog Voyager

BEETHOVEN 5th Meets Moog Voyager (Dedicated to Wendy Carlos/Aphex Twin)

Published on Oct 23, 2012 by timtsang3

"10.23.2012
Beethoven's 5th Symphony (1st movement excerpts) being passed through the external audio input of the Moog Voyager for some real-time tweaking."

MOOGIST: "Voyager Talk"

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"Using Moog Voyager to process audio track with additional sounds. plays like a turntable.

www.moogist.com
moogist(thatthing)gmail.com
11/06/2009"

NOISE MUSIC, what is (T. Tsang, a.k.a."Moogist"), 310-316

YouTube via timtsang3 | February 11, 2011 |

"If SOUND = generally audible and accepted (physical and cultural) forms of wave signals, and NOISE = disorder(ed), generally intrusive, unwanted (temporary or permanent) sound, and MUSIC = organized/ordered sound over time...

what, then,

is NOISE MUSIC?

.is noise simply added onto/into music, or
.does noise transform into music?
.if noise is simply added onto/into music, is it still noise - is it still music?
.if noise is transformed into music, at what point does that change occur?
...or does one just make noise..."

Overdriving the Moog Voyager

FAT MOOG: How to make your Moog Voyager sound FAT, overloaded, unstable, about to lose it...etc

Published on Oct 10, 2012 by timtsang3

"This is a simple "overload" trick that's been posted on the Moog Music Forum for some time now (http://forum.moogmusic.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14154), and I found it to be real helpful. you totally dont need a distortion pedal if you have a Moog Voyager. The whole thing IS a distortion pedal."

Note there are different ways to overdrive the filter. Via MBlom in the thread: "But at least in theory there are two different ways you can overload the filter/VCA. If you send one of the outputs back into the mixer you get a feedback loop where the resonance might self oscillate. But if you use an insert jack and put it in the Mix Out/Audio Filter In you can boost the signal from the oscillators prior to the filter. This creates an overload as well but no feedback. So if I'm not misunderstanding something, you actually have two different types of overdrive in the Voyager. Right?"

The audio levels are also different between the line outs on the back the headphone out on front.

And via Sound on Sound on the Old School: "Mildly exasperated, I turned to the rear (or upper) panel, which is largely the same as the Voyager's. This means lots of quarter-inch voltage inputs (11 in total) for interfacing with expression pedals, or modular gear such as Moog's own Moogerfoogers. An effects loop insert point is provided too, ideal for plumbing in external effects after the mixer section and before the filters. This is one of those simple additions that prove to be genuinely worthwhile in practice and had me digging out a wide collection of old effects processors. Adjacent to the insert point, the external audio input is on hand to process any source you fancy — including the Old School's own headphone output. This version of the Minimoog trick sounds a trifle different in this incarnation; indeed, with the levels cranked up it threw up some of the most extreme (and occasionally scary) noises in the Old School's repertoire."

JACKSON POLLOCK (Moogist Commentary)

YouTube via timtsang3 | January 29, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"'When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.'

-Jackson Pollock

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While painting is not my medium, and I am not claiming to be Pollock in any way, studying him and his ideas has helped guide me through my creative process this week, and I wish to give him credit for sparking new ideas.

On a TECHNICAL level, I agree with Pollock when he says that when one loses contact with the "painting" the result becomes a mess.

On an EXPRESSIVE level, it does seem that the work has a life of its own, and it is through interacting with it that the final outcome becomes possible.

if one is "too" technical in his/her work, then it may not be expressive enough, and if one is too expressive, the vice versa may be true. Therefore it not really about "balancing" the technical and the expressive - i.e. 50/50, as this may often lead to mediocrity on both fronts...

Instead, it is better that one's technique be informed by his/her expressiveness, thereby having these elements not only running parallel to each other, but are one and the same toward the same goal, on the same path, as a rider and his horse are one and rushing to the same destination.

I am striving for this, and it is clear that Pollock knew this well, as he states:

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." -JP
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moogist@gmail.com
facebook.com/moogistmusic"

Heart Attack.

YouTube Uploaded by timtsang3 on Mar 31, 2011

"Heart Attack. 2011
Moog Voyager in real-time, on pre-recorded kick drum at 60 beats per minute.
(2 minutes, 14 seconds)"

Moogist - "Green Christmas"

YouTube via timtsang3 | December 26, 2010 |

"www.facebook.com/moogistmusic
moogist@gmail.com"

Complicated Handshake - Moogy Scratch

YouTube via timtsang3
"Complicated Handshake is

Chip Chop (www.brobot.net)
and
Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "The Moogist" (www.moogist.com, moogist@gmail.com)"

Fake Rothko.

YouTube Uploaded by timtsang3 on Apr 22, 2011

"Fake Rothko. 2011

Moog Voyager in real-time, on processed photograph of a crack between two drawers.
(3 minutes, 18 seconds)"

Complicated Handshake - "Timmy Hard".m4v

YouTube via timtsang3. Moog Voyager.
"Complicated Handshake @ Wonder Bar, Allston MA 02.16.2010"

Switch.

YouTube Uploaded by timtsang3 on Jul 4, 2011

"By Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "Moogist".
Moog Voyager in real-time.
Brooklyn, NY

07.04.2011.




moogist.com"