
GO GET THEM!
Freeform discussion of electronic music and the techniques and gear used in making it
Don't know why, but I've always wanted one of these...
Watch this video first thing in the morning, and I DEFY you to have a bad day....
Posted mainly to prove to all my friends who made fun of me that I was pronouncing the band's name correctly all along. Very good interview, though.
Organisation was the name of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider's pre-Kraftwerk project from the late 70's. The project only ever released one album before breaking up, after which Ralf and Florian founded Kling Klang Studios and began writing music as Kraftwerk.
Ever since I spotted it in a Devo video, I wondered what this thing was. Basically, it allowed you to build chords from monophonic synthesizers. This excerpt from Vintage Synth Explorer describes how it works:
"Poly-Box is a pitch following variable chord generator controlled by your synthesizer and Poly-Box's own keyboard with built-in memory. Poly-Box takes a single pitch from your synthesizer and creates two banks of pitch sources. Each pitch bank contains 13 simultaneously available pitch sources at precise semitone intervals - covering an entire chromatic octave. The pitch banks may be in the same or different octaves, and can cover the range from one above to three octaves below the synthesizer oscillator."
I love it when musicians perform a traditionally electronic type of music with traditional instruments. (And if you haven't seen KJ Sawka's incredible live drum n' bass drumming, check it out here!) Here is a drummer and a bassist with a boatload of effects doing some dubstep and drum n'bass style stuff live. I wish I knew what his effects rig was!
The Screamers were an LA punk band (originally from Seattle) active in the late 1970's. What made them different was that they used electric pianos and synthesizers instead of guitars and bass. They never released an album, but were influential to the likes of Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys and Darby Crash of the Germs. Several video clips of the band do exist, however... here's one of them.
A testament to what a ridiculously talented person can do with Native Instruments Reaktor in a live context.
This is Boing Boing TV's coverage of ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne's new sound installation 'Playing the Building'. Byrne has rigged up an old pump organ to 'play' various parts of an old, abandoned ferry terminal. I can only imagine how awesome this sounds in person!
By now you probably have heard that Moog Music, known mainly for their legendary synthesizers, has decided to enter the guitar market. The Moog Guitar has e-bow sustain mechanisms built into each individual string for amazing sustain effects that were previously impossible. Oh yeah, and it costs almost $7,000 so you can believe that the guys featured in this video are among the 5 people in the world who can afford it...