Sparkle “Spectral Manipulation”
Cross-synthesis, phase-sync high-quality transformations.
Wie funktioniert ein Synthesizer?
Das Eurovisionssignet kennt jedermann. Dass es auch ganz anders klingen kann, zeigt der Musiker Bruno Spoerri und führt uns gleichzeitig in die Welt des Synthesizers ein. (“Perspektiven” vom 13.4.1972)
Experimental: Yaybahar – the acoustic synth, kind of
Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Gorkem Sen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound.
What you hear in this performance is captured in realtime without any additional effects and with no post audio processing.
yaybahar.com
For contact: yaybaharcontact@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Yaybahar/371861612976976?fref=ts
Youtube: youtu.be/45m0TkLpmQg
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/gorkemsen/yayb…
Twitter: twitter.com/YAYBAHAR
Credits
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Instrument: Yaybahar
Performence: Görkem Şen
Video: Levent Bozkurt
Video Editing: Olgu Demir
Sound Mix: Mert Aksuna
Place: Alişler Yurdu
2014
GForce updates their ARP wanna-be: Oddity2 – Enhancements
A quick run-down of the new and enhanced features in Oddity2.
Music composed by DJ Dean Coleman using Oddity2
Oddity2 is the successor to the multi-award winning Oddity, modelled on the legendary ARP Odyssey synthesiser, manufactured between 1972 and 1981.
During its lifetime the Odyssey, due to it’s versatile and distinctive tones, was used by artists as diverse as Gary Numan, John Foxx, Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk, Chick Corea, Roger Powell, George Duke, 808 State and countless others. Ultravox’s Billy Currie refers to it as the ‘first punk synth’ due to its snarling aggression, thanks in part to an on-board ring modulator, oscillator sync and duophonic capabilities.
Sporting a new livery based on the final revision Odyssey, Oddity2 takes the character and operational architecture of the original and via a wave of enhancements, transports the spirit of the original into a new dimension.
First up, while the duophonic and monophonic modes have been retained, Oddity2 now also offers a monophonic legato mode which wasn’t evident on the Odyssey, plus a POLYPHONIC MODE. Yes, now finally it’s possible to stop wondering what the Odyssey’s classic tones would sound like within the context of chord based structures, and put it into practice. Everything from spiky and resonant textures to lush and warm pads sounds can either be programmed from Oddity2’s intuitive controls or simply dialled up via the accompanying presets.
Furthermore, via three filter modes and an additional oscillator, Oddity2 can sound as versatile and punchy as its main rival back in the day.
Oddity2 doesn’t stop there either, in order to overcome the original instrument’s limitation of a single LFO, we’ve also added the ability to apply an additional LFO and ADSR to almost any of the main Oddity2 sliders, which gives the instrument almost unrivalled versatility and depth when it comes to sound design options.
Additional improvements over its predecessor include an on-board delay, spread or random pan modes, patch morphing via beats or seconds, program change recognition and implementation of the two octave transpose switch for dynamic real-time performances.
Put simply, Oddity2 further builds on the significance and lineage of the original hardware and software instruments, by taking its fundamental sonic character and, via a raft of carefully considered musical enhancements, transplants it into the hands of those musicians ready to take it to both familiar and new horizons.
Key Features
- Two syncable oscillators plus a sub oscillator
- Fully tuneable across a six octave range
- Monophonic, Duophonic and Polyphonic modes
- Sawtooth, Square, Sine & Variable pulse width waveforms
- Ring modulator
- Two resonant 24dB/octave lowpass filter modes
- One 12dB/octave filter mode
- Highpass filter
- Vast Modulation options via additional XLFO and XADSRs
- Dynamic control over filter cutoff and amplitude
- Timed Morphing between presets within a preset bank.
- Flying Slider feature
- A=440Hz Reference tone
- On-Board Delay
- Spread and Random Pan Modes
- Over 1000 Categorised Patches
- Full automation support
French electro act Növö out with new material – Listen here
French cult electronic project Növö (aka Laurent Boudic) is back with a brand new download single, “Zeitgeist” (available here). The track is also the title of the recently released 4th full length studio album by Növö. Expect vintage analogue synth sequences,electronic bleeps, pulsing bass lines and vocoder vocals. You can listen to the track below or to the video teaser of all of the 5 tracks on the single below.
Besides a 7″ and another extended mix, “Zeitgeist” also received the remix treatment by Flood Veyor, Franck Kartell and Denial Of Service. When buying the download single on Bandcamp you get 1 track now as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more, plus the complete single the moment it’s released later on next week.
Trailer of NÖVÖ’s Digital EP “Zeitgeist” released on Alfa-Matrix Records.
Pre orders starting on November 3rd, 2014.
Buy it now: http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comme…
Music, lyrics & production by Laurent BOUDIC for GenComProdukts international©.
Video by Denial.of.service: http://d-os.org
Website: www.gencomprodukts.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurent.boudic
New electro video from DIE KRUPPS – Robo Sapien
“Robo Sapien” taken from the album “The Machinists Of Joy”.
Directed by: Jay Gillian
Camera OP and Computer Animation: Shane Williams
Produced by Cinematek Film & Television
Robo Sapien provided by: JG and the Robots www.JGandtheRobots.com
http://www.facebook.com/diekruppsoffi…
http://www.twitter.com/diekruppsband
http://www.diekrupps.de
NI Reaktor: West-coast style monophonic synthesizer
Here’s what the developer has to say about it:
Hey guys, since a lot of you enjoyed the 1.0 version, I thought it’d be a good idea to let you know that I’ve just updated my WEST// Reaktor ensemble.
This new 1.1 version adds a clone of the Buchla 296e Spectral Processor, Wave Folder, Master EQ, LFO Key Sync, new MIDI modulation sources as well as a bunch of bug fixes. Check the link for the full changelog.
Get it for free from the Reaktor user library
WEST// is a west-coast style monophonic synthesizer.
Since there aren’t too many of this kind of synths available for Reaktor I decided to try to create something. WEST// was inspired by the sounds of the Buchla modules and the semi-modular workflow from the ARP 2600 synthesizer.
It contains a Complex Oscillator (FM based dual-oscillator), a filter similar to a low-pass gate, 2 ADSRs, 1 Multi-Stage envelope, Noise generator, 3 VCAs, 2 mixers, 1 sequencer, 2 random modules inspired by the Source of Uncertainty, 2 regular LFOs, 1 Self-Influenced Random module, a frequency shifter and a Wave Multiplier.
The workflow on it is a bit particular so here are a few tips to get started:
– The VCA 1 is linked to the Master output and it’s always controlled by the ADSR 1.
– The sliders available on the Complex Oscillator behave as offsets when there’s no Modulation selected. Once you select a modulation source, the sliders turn into attenuators for the incoming modulation signals.
– Shape 1 and 2 are a bipolar slider
The Cold & Lovely: On Tour with IK Multimedia
Learn about IK Multimedia’s mobile music creation line of apps and accessories at http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/…
Join us while Meghan Toohey of The Cold & Lovely gives you a tour of her process making great music using IK Multimedia apps, accessories, and more.
Get music and more information about The Cold & Lovely on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/artist/the-c…
New interview with Aphex Twin SYROBONKERS!
The online magazine Noyzelab has posted a lengthy interview with Aphext Twin, below is the initial sections:
note: this interview was conducted over the course of a couple of months, the process began around the time the blimp went up before the release ofSyro and was completed on 25.10.2014, after the albums release. some questions were inserted afterwards, answered amended etc, so the whole thing isn’t sequential. all music tracks, photo’s & images have been supplied by richard + photo’s that were taken by other people have been noted. this is part one of two parts.
thanks: Grant Bussinger at Warp Records for web assistance
dave: hi rich, first up, thanks heaps for agreeing to an interview for noyzelab! there’s a MASSIVE buzz going around about your upcoming release syro[now released as this interview took so long!], the first aphex twin album since drukqs in 2001. lets start off with the album title and artwork. you’ve said that it was a word conjured up by one of your lads, can you elaborate on this? How did it come about & does it have a meaning?
rich: Hi man, funny being interviewed by one of yer mates 
although actually I reckon its quite a good ting for all friends to do to each other, ill have to return the interview about you at some point.
thinkin bout it, quite a few mates id like to pin down on a few things!
My eldest son[8yrs] just looked at me one morning and said syrobonkus, I asked him what it meant he said he didnt know.
Artwork, this time I didnt want to just stick a ‘picture’ on it you know, its pretty acidmicrodot inspired in a way [cold as fuck] as was icbyd cover which happened after my girlfriend morphed into me while she was lying on top of me [scariest thing I ever saw, looked much better than the pic i painted for that, , no emotion, which is how I’ve felt on acid before, just experiencing so much more than normal, heightened senses, telepathy, huge increase of smell, I think I can smell my own brain now…it smells clean and grey, it’s a strange smell, being aware of so much more but not feeling ANY emotion.
completely culturally deprogrammed, one very good reason why it’s illegal, like the beautiful scene in John Carpenters ‘they live’ ‘money is your god etc’ but even more extreme to the point of how you behave.
I think doing acid is a bit of a brute force way of getting outside yourself, there are other easier ways but no less difficult to deal with and more intense but without the brutal chemicals in your body.
I had an astral projection the first time I did acid [after about 5/6 hours] right outside myself on the ceiling, looked down on my body making a sandwich, such a terrifying experience,
Well I don’t think terrifying is the right word, I don’t think there is a word, I think getting a 2nd one is harder as you have to overcome the fear.
I had a trip on a microdot once around 94ish , it went very weird, long story short, I couldn’t find anything that was good or worthwhile about music, I put on some of my fave records by other people [i get into this state tripping sometimes, .. what am i supposed to do now?[deprogrammed] its pretty scary..and thought oh maybe i would play… like music.. to enjoy?]
I was in quite a desperate/seeking state and they all sounded so bad, the brutal truth, pointless and totally boring, i saw how i kind of invented/made up a fantasy about things i liked, kind of tricking and lying to myself that it was good so i could feel nice&comfy, anyway I thought there must be something good to fucking listen to… and I found it , it was turning my amp and eq up on maximum and I mean maximum and spinning the radio dial backwards and forwards, [it was a nice weighted one] , I was totally emotionless when I was doing it [ ] and I thought…hmmm yeah thats …kind of alright, then my speakers blew up.
But in the back of my mind now, many years l8r I can choose to remember the feeling of everything anyone ever does creatively is actually terrible, the only comforting thought I can get like that is , well rocks can’t make beats or something, ha , so that’s kind of good, i don’t knw wtf I’m going on about…jeez.
anyway
awhile after my girlfriend tried to comfort me, as i musta looked in a bit of a state, she stroked my arm and all I could think was, why is there a skeleton with a blood circulatory system moving up n down on my skeleton with another blood circulatory system! [absolute deprogrammed to fuk]
it was confusing I knew I was supposed to feel something but didn’t and when I saw my girlfriend get upset, 4 a split second I ‘felt bad’ and said I was sorry I dunno what I’m supposed to do..like a kind of remnant of emotion just flicked back for half a second.
what a tangent..yeah its cold microdot vibe basically, ha
dave: how does it feel to have a new aphex twin album coming out after so many years? its quite incredible to have such a large gap in releases and yet maintain such a loyal following. aside from the music of course, do u think your live performance work has been integral to this ? Also been checking some of your interviews that have started coming out, really cracked me up, all your lies about having kids and wives !
rich: Well you know you gotta play with the conventions ain’t ya, also though, I always kinda fantasised about what it would be like to have kids and get married etc, I know I probably will never do that, so I guess it’s nice to pretend that you’ve done it, my russian girlfriend was flattered when I started pretending we were married, a lot of people now think we are married which is funny and we just play a long with it most of the time, we had an imaginary wedding and have imaginary kids.
I’ve surprised myself quite how far I can take it, inventing personas etc.
ok music career, ha, i hate the words career & successful btw.
dunno but i used to have this game on the spectrum 48k which was rock star manager or summink, it was pretty boring but kept me entertained 4 a bit and was different from the usual games and i remember you used to do better when your band toured regularly, so that was my first in depth music managerial education on’t speccy, great music education, ha
It feels good because although tracks get finished thyre still kind of unfinished in yer ed, they occupy space up there as you know they not pressed up/backed up and mastered.
Backing stuff up on releases and getting it mastered whether I do it or someone else, they are the biggest reasons for me releasing stuff
id lose track of it else.
Then its like your free of them and you can concentrate so much more on other things your doing and hopefully it earns you a living int process.
dave: theres been a lot of speculation in the media & reports of you playing out unreleased stuff from the album live. so have u been testing this stuff & future releases out during your live gigs to see peoples reactions?
rich: yeah i spose.. but firstly its always lush 2 ear what your tunes sound like on a massive p.a
Also was fully aware that usually with my releases, they are quite impenetrable for a lot of folk for a while until they work out whats going on, so having some people partly familiar with some of the tracks b4 release makes a nice way in for dem.
Im addicted [a bit too much] to listenin to my tracks on as many different kinds of speakers and headphones when making them, its like listening with a slightly different personality/set of ears, you hear different things and learn how it translates.
I gotta stop doing it so much actually as it kind of doesn’t matter, ur better off just makin sumink else but these things happen4 a reason u have to go with them sometimes.
Read the full interview here >>
Front 242 – Belpop Documentary 2008
Front 242 – Belpop Documentary 2008
Thanks to deutschmark for sharing
A special program about Front 242 broadcasted on Belgian TV.
(Dutch spoken, French parts got Dutch subtitles)
Number of interviews and archival footage never seen before.
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