Ex-Japan member Mick Karn asks for help
For those of you who unfamiliar with Mick Karn – he is one of the seminal bass players from the 1980’s era of fretless bass, famous for his use of the Wal Bass and someone who I can easily say has a truly unique style and sound. His lyrical approach to playing resulted in some of the most beautiful and striking lines both with Japan, particularly on the classic album Tin Drum, but also in his solo work after the group split.
Midge Ure is organizing a fund-raising concert, scheduled for August 31st 2010. Support is growing with details to be announced.
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Two new fat sample packs from Prime Loops
Beautiful evening electronica on the MorphWiz
This guy really knows his way around the MorphWiz
The second inspiration of the night. This time I lay down some improvised chords and just expressed (improvised a melody on MorphWiz. Once again filming with one hand and playing with the other! Gotta get one of those Iphone tripods for the road!!
NAMM: Akai Synthstation 25 iPhone keyboard
Eric McGregor with Numark, Alesis, and Akai Professional discusses the Akai Synthstation 25 iPhone keyboard control surface at Summer NAMM 2010 in Nashville, TN. Recorded June 19th, 2010.
Nice multi-effect for creating Ambient textures
Audiobulb Records / Christopher Hipgrave unveils Ambient, a multi-effect standalone software module for creating Ambient textures. Sounds very cool!
Features:
- + Granular sampler with random pitch function
- + Amplitude envelope with a trigger speed control
- + Three pitch shift controls for adding extra layers
- + Tape delay
- + Multi-mode filter
- + Ambient reverb
Price: £9.99 GBP
“A unique ambient soundscape generator. AMBIENT is capable of producing a vast array of ambient textures, from the bizarre to the beautiful. AMBIENT processes any sound you care to load into it. The possibilities are endless.” A U D I O B U L B . R E C O R D S
mSpot on Android
Android users might find this a rather interesting offering. Mobile entertainment startup mSpot has debuted its free music cloud service. mSpot’s service allows you to sync your entire music collection across Android phones and PCs/Macs to the public. Launched into private beta in May, it streams music to your browser and Android phone. The application will manage your music for you, making automatic updates whenever changes occur in your library, and on across different connected devices, again, quite similar to what a cloud storing service like Dropbox does (sign up now via this link and you get an extra 250 MB of bonus space). Other features include the ability to see lyrics of songs and to make a ringtone out of any song.
Sneak peek of the ambient music game Osmos For iPad
This a sneak preview of the ambient music game Osmos For iPad, which is expected to be available July 8th.
An iPhone version is also planned. Osmos is already available for Mac, Windows & Linux.
See below the full trailer for an overview of Osmos.
Video editing by Kun Chang. http://www.kunchang.net
Music by Gas / High Skies. http://microscopics.co.uk
Transforming a piano into a kinetic sound and video installation
For her Piano Migrations Installation, Kathy Hinde took the inside of an old upright piano and transformed it into a kinetic sound and video installation. The projected birds seem to excite the strings as they fly by and sit on them.
The twitching and fluttering of small machines, fastened to the piano, touch the strings and cause them to resonate. The image is analyzed by the controlling software to make sure only the string closest to the moving bird is heard.
Dutch electro synth heat
Very impressive :-), here´s what he has to say about it:
Its quite warm in the Netherlands these last few days and the attic, were my equipment is, is even more warmer. But I managed to video this improvisation. Row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 has an 8-step sequence for the self-built Modular. Row 2 is used to gate the Ian Fritz All-In EG which envelope is connected to the Resonant LoPass Gate clone. The Formant noise is fed to the input of the LPG clone. Row 3 of the MAQ16/3 is shifting the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer which has sequences on row 1 and 3 which are alternated by the Q962 sequencer switch. Row 2 of the Q960 is connected to the Q150 Transistor Ladder Filter to modulate the frequency level. In the second part of the video the Waldorf Q Keyboard joins with chords and the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and the Roland XP-80 performs some improvised solo’s. The original video is somewhat more than 12 minutes so I skipped the first 2 minutes because I did not want to cut off the end. You can view the original video on my website soon.
My daughter Tessa is on a school trip to Paris for a few days and this evening she phoned from the top of the Eiffel Tower, which explains the title.
Silentway CV Generator’ iPhone app controling EMS Synthi
This short video demonstrates how the $4.99 Silent Way CV Generator iPhone app can be used to control a vintage synth, in this case an EMS Synthi.
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