Low Brow Eye Ltd - Music Technology Consultancy

I Dream of Wires: Carl Craig - Modular Pursuits.

“I get a little… a little crazy about it. Um. Y’know how many filters does a person really need? I got a lot of fucking filters, y’know?”

voltagecontrolled:

Analog Drum ‘n Bass

Yesssss.

Although I doubt the genre would have ever been kick-started had it required a room full of modulars instead of just a sampler (or MOD tracker) and a handful of samples.

I must also note that it’s refreshing to see a large modular system put to use in making a tune rather than the usual exploratory squirblies (fun as they are).

All Hail The Beat by Nelson George

A short film overview of the highly beloved Roland TR-808 drum machine. 

“It’s kick drum sound is legendary.”

classof808:

Sound It Out

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.

SOUND IT OUT (75 mins) is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, SOUND IT OUT documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop.

A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.

sploshthomas

zveneczi:

SYNAESTHESIA - Rachmaninov prelude in c sharp minor - Alessio Nanni (by Alessio Nanni)

Kandinsky once said:
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul”.
The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton.
Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound’s character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music.
Starting from this suggestion I worked on a pure programming languages to built a completely new machine that translated the audio signals into colors and shapes, in a very pictorial way.
In this way the visual part is acting and reacting with the music in a very powerful way.

Wow. Social Entropy Electronic Musical Instruments are selling a replacement TB-303 operating system chip called Quicksilver.

As well as supporting MIDI - including remote control of all the machines functionality -  everything can also be manipulated in realtime. That includes entering patterns, editing notes, changing modes, and brand new features like “all accent”, “randomise” and “chop”.

I’ll just let that sync in for a moment whilst your mind races with the possibilities for live performance.

All data is stored in an EEPROM so batteries aren’t required, and the OS can also be updated over USB as they intend to add new features in the future.

This looks to be an essential upgrade for all committed acid heads. If you know anyone selling cheap 303s with dead OS chips then now is the time to snap them up before the prices skyrocket!

[via awesome Australian acid aficionado Dylabs]

Circle Phaser by catweasel:

An experiment in designing audio waveforms that look interesting, as well as sounding coherent, this piece was made for Bring Your Own Beamer, Birmingham as part of Flatpack festival 2012, but is part of an ongoing investigation.