Off The Wall

Theres a great set of pictures taken at the Moog factory in 1977 over on synthesisers.com. I noticed a couple of pics taken of some sketches pinned to the wall, and it reminded me of this previous post I did about Minimoog concept art. So I tried to clean up the pics a bit:

The Americans

I had a bit of a change around in the studio today and suddenly there were all these Americans in the corner

Wrangler Mixing

(photo - Phil Jones)

We've been very busy in the studio mixing our debut EP (with Mal).YEAH!

Word of the Week #54

Arp Arp

Here is Biba, helping me out with a patch on the ARP 2500. The VCOs, envelopes and filters sound so clear and crisp on this thing. This simple sequence is going through my new toy (bought on Vemia), an Ibanez stereo analog delay unit DD1000

Horny Two

Here is another self-playing horn patch thing on the Buchla 100. This ones got a bit more space in it... Its a tweak of the same patch as this one

One Man Band

My Fairlight is currently being fixed... I will report back to you on this as and when, so in the mean time here is the original CMI IIx Demo Cassette (side a):



I found the mp3 here

Multi-Mal

Invisible Moments

Look at this amazing video made for us by Macoto Tezka. ILOVEIT!!



UPDATE: Here is his second video for us, Talk:



Here is the story:
November 7, 2013 Macoto Tezka. One day, I came across a very old, classic western-style building in a corner of Ginza-town in central Tokyo. A building stood at the location well over 80 years. It's one of a Tokyo's relics of the past that survived war-fire and many earthquakes. In the building, there are a couple of stairs around an old mechanical elevator. It used be an apartment but no one lives there anymore. Now galleries and antique stores occupy the building. Walking through a narrow passage, I thought about the past and imagined how people lived here. Imagery of old silent films flashed into my imagination. A few months later, I visited there again with my actor friends and a cinematographer. Because I couldn't think of a better location for John Foxx And The Maths videos. John's music has a feeling of "déjà vu". It's always fresh but somehow nostalgic. Silhouette of a figure that walks through an old avenue; vague, indistinctive face . . That is the image created by his music. But some images of my own memories also came up. Our cinematographer shot this film with a Canon camera. Before editing, it had sharply-defined shapes and vivid color, so I removed it all. Next, I adjusted the speed to express an eternal moment. Then I synchronized the music to the image and I found something was still missing. By watching the film for many weeks I kept asking myself, 'whats' missing'? Then an idea came up to my mind to bring the film to perfection. The gaps of 'scattered memories and missing time' need to be added. So I decided to attach these 'invisible moments' to fill the gap. The film was finished by these invisible moments

Horny

Buchla 100 patch, utilising proto-horn type sounds, about 4 layers of them. HORNY!