Taylor Swift and Aphex Twin…well Aphex Swift of course
David Rees has made an album of Aphex Twin / Taylor Swift mashups, because they both have great production and, at least in his view, ‘Taylor Swift is as scary as Aphex Twin’:
“We’ve got to acknowledge that Taylor Swift is sort of terrifying,” writes Rees. “Aphex Twin is famously camera shy, and employs a lot of cryptic/creepy imagery in his videos. Of course, I wouldn’t describe Taylor Swift as camera-shy … but her incredible poise and superhuman competence are, to me, just as alien and intimidating as Aphex Twin’s photoshopped leering ghoul-faces. It’s a cliche to describe a celebrity as controlled and masterful as Taylor Swift as robotic, but I think there’s some truth there, especially in an age when we assume — rightly or wrongly — any pop singer who hits a high note did it with the help of a computer.”
Kemper Norton – All Through the Night
Video by Scott Byrne
“All through the night” by Kemper Norton
Based on the Welsh folk song Ar hyd y nos (trad)
From the album Loor (Front and Follow 2014)
www.frontandfollow.com
The label explain that, “[t]he songs on Loor [Cornish for ‘moon’] are a loose trilogy of nocturnal encounters, searches and awakenings, often with Kemper Norton revisiting old foes from previous albums and encouraging new treacherous encounters”, drawing on “real and imagined cities from childhood” folk influences and found sounds. As such, it’s fitting that Scott Byrne’s excellent, computer-animated new video for ‘All Through The Night’, based on the Welsh folksong ‘Ar hyd y nos’, should feature skeletal figures engaged in various acts of crepuscular rumination in a greyscale city.
New video with Daniel Lanois – “Opera”
Daniel Lanois performs “Opera” from the new album ‘Flesh and Machine,’ available October 28th
Flesh And Machine was initially conceived as an ambient album, building on his work with Brian Eno on classics like Ambient 4: On Land (1982) and Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks(1983). But the album also explores Lanois’ idea of taking the ‘studio as an instrument’ concept to the world of live performance.
New KORG iOS app : AudioPocket for volca sample
Send sample data directly from your iPhone to your volca sample!
AudioPocket enables you to program your volca sample memory with audio samples.
In addition to merely importing samples from your computer via iTunes, the free AudioPocket app has a built-in recorder – you can record something to sample as and when you need it, or you can record anything that crops up when you’re out and about to put into your Volca Sample later, as long as you have your iPhone with you…
Coming Soon!
More Details about volca sample:
http://www.korg.com/volca_sample/
Lo-Fi SES: Hackable 8-bit chiptunes instrument
Know how to play video games? Like music? You’ll love the Lo-Fi SES (Sound Entertainment System). It’s an instrument that makes it easy to rock out as a chiptune artist.
The Lo-Fi SES is all fun with no practice. It may look like a game controller, but it’s actually a music controller. You might’ve never learned to play piano or guitar, but I’ll bet you rocked at more than a few video games. Lo-Fi SES lets you turn those hard fought skills into musical magic.
And, like any good guitar, the Lo-Fi SES has to look as good as it sounds. That’s why the Lo-Fi SES itself is a work of art. The fantastic Doctor Octoroc divined the graphics for this instrument and produced the animation in the video.
The Lo-Fi SES is designed around the Arduino platform with an Atmega processor. As a result, you can replace the samples with actual sounds from an NES or other console. You can remap the buttons, do sophisticated open-source signal processing and even use it as a… game controller. The team says that no coding experience is needed, but if you like hacking, “it’s the perfect platform for audio projects, budding bands or skilled instrumentalists.” Finally there’s a slot to add three cartridges: a second sound pack, a USB cartridge for custom tweaking and a “Smasher” cartridge that lets you dirty up the music.
New paraphonic synth – Dreadbox EREBUS demo
The very first Erebus demo, made with the prototype unit on a standard 24 midi key.
For more info please visit
http://www.dreadbox-fx.com/erebus-syn…
you can also download the manual at
http://www.dreadbox-fx.com/support.html
Complex Waveforms
Here we can see and hear the waveform generated by combining the triangle and square wave lfo from the Moog cp-251 with the square wave LFO from the Voyager. This is then sent to the Synthesizers.com Q106 oscillator.
ELO: The Video Game OST
The cover art for Electric Light Orchestra’s Out of the Blue is spacey and iconic and it got us thinking about how fun an ELO-themed shmup might have been back in the day… Well, here’s the next best thing: a chiptune tribute that could have worked as a soundtrack for such a game!
The eight artists here have used hardware and samples from various old video game consoles to pay tribute to some of Jeff Lynne’s most memorable songs, and it only seemed fitting to commission cover artwork that mimicked the crappy Atari box art of the same era when ELO rose to prominence. We hope you have as much fun listening as we did putting it together!
Dani’el – Sensitive Boy
Music video by Dani’el performing Sensitive Boy
from the EP ‘The Book Pt. II: Redemption’ available on iTunes for pre-order https://itun.es/i6Bq3HW
Expected Release: Nov 10, 2014
℗ 2014 Danijel Majcen
New Korg Electribe preview w. James Pullen AKA Mista Bishi
Sonic got a sneak preview at BPM of the brand new Korg Electribe, although perhaps not in the ideal environment. So we jumped at the chance to have a visit from Ian at Korg UK and James (aka Mista Bishi) to give us a more detailed look at the new unit.
With a King Korg derived synth engine the Electribe features a 24 voice synth engine for 16 parts, each part also has an insert effect and then there’s a final Master Effect buss too.
Plenty of filter types and a revamped effect processor gives the Electribe a full ambient sound, at least in the hands of Mista Bishi.
If you want to hear a more complete version of the track James played portions of, here’s a link to a vocal version.
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