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Is it kinetic art, or kinetic kitsch? I am not sure:
More information:
- Creators Project article on Anthony Howe
Give your opinion on Anthony Howe’s work:
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Here I have both Musictech’s write up from this past year (2013) of the top ten best hardware synths and also Musicradar’s own list from 2009 of their greatest hardware synths of all time. Each are interesting reads; Musictech’s lineup of synthesizers can give you an idea of synths still on the market if you are a soon to be buyer, Musicradar’s review of all time great synths can show you some synths of the past that you probably can’t find anymore but could find samples of on youtube to hear them. Both articles give you a little bit of information of each synth which is sweet and to the point. Always you could look…
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From the album Commercial Mouth of Jar Moff released by Pan records in 2013:
This is the Pan promo text belonging to the record:
‘Commercial Mouth’ is the debut LP from Jar Moff, an Athens based artist working in collage forms. This is his first full-length LP. Both his visual and aural oeuvre take the form of cut up and reformations in the manner of previous PAN stablemates like Joseph Hammer and Ghedalia Tazartes, remodeling the past in order to create something new out of the modern detritus, and nestles in nicely alongside the recent ‘Diversions 1994-1996’ release from Lee Gamble. The result is a baffling yet functioning head-on collision between early plunderphonics and an abstracted futuristic hip hop aesthetic. ‘
BTW: play the video full screen and turn the volume loud!
More information:
- Tumblr blog of Jarr Moff
- Pan record label
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On YouTube I found this video today on the Ondes Martenot: an electronic instrument of the 1920’s which preludes today’s synthesizer. It is most widely known for its use in pieces by French composer Olivier Messiaen:
I actually own a high quality software emulation of the Ondes Martenot made by VSTi producers Sonic Couture and use it quite often due to it’s distinct sounds. One of the interesting things about the Ondes Martenot was the ribbon controller demonstrated by Jean Laurendeau in the video.
A similar ribbon controller in a modern plexiglas enclosure now made by Eowave is also part of my synth studio. Here the Blade Runner theme is played on a synthesizer using the Eowave ribbon as a controller:
So although the Ondes Martenot may be almost a century old and is not often used as an instrument on its own, it’s sounds and concepts are still alive today.
More information:
- Sonic Couture
- Eowave
- Ondes Martenot in Wikipedia
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Electronic music in the 1920′s – the ondes Martenot by Noise Addicts
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‘Stillness’ is a film by Esther Kokmeijer, a series of cinematic landscapes, filmed in the Arctic and Antarctic. It is scored by Rutger Zuydervelt a.k.a. Machinefabriek.
More information:
- Website of Esther Kokmeijer
- Machinefabriek
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