Gummi Bears Make Music.
Posted September 11th, 2008 by Oliver CheslerFiled Under: Ableton Live, apple, hardware, song writing
What’s my secret to making music? I let my Gummi Bear friends do it for me! Normally they are camera shy but today they let me take photos of them recording a song. There are 10 photos and captions in total so be sure to click “Continue…” to see them all!
Red and his twin brother (also named Red) team up to add more noise into the signal chain of an Electrocomp-101 vintage analog synthesizer.
Green helps Orange change the Control Mode to Envelope 1 on an Electrocomp-101 synthesizer.
Green and Red need some inspiration before they go back to making music so they lie down for a bit on a Roland SH3 synthesizer keyboard and stare at the studio’s acoustic cloud.
Yellow and Red team up and jam on a Vermona DRM1 MKIII drum machine. Yellow changes the resonance on the snare while Red messes with the highpass filter on the lazer zap.
Orange and Green never used a Korg MS20 Legacy controller before so they sit and watch as Red helps Clear sweep the Frequency knob.
Red supervises as Green and Yellow make changes on a Voice of Saturn analog sequencer. Red can be a bit bossy at times.
Using a computer and Ableton Live is a real challenge for Gummi Bears. Red and Yellow have to stand blind behind the Mighty Mouse and wait for Green to direct them.
The song is coming along nicely and Green and Yellow scale the Ultimate Support Systems A-Frame and then go high on top of the Yamaha CS5 synthesizer. Green tells Yellow something she already knows. He loves her.
The band has a serious problem. They want to kick Clear out because he doesn’t add any color to the sound. They meet to discuss what do to on top of a Yamaha NS10M speaker.
Clear knows what is about to happen. He is contemplating diving off the speaker onto the M-Audio Oxygen 8 midi controller. If he hits one of the keys he could bounce and live. If not…
I hope you enjoyed this story. What’s your studio snack?
You can also view this set on flickr: click here
Gummi Bears Make Music by Oliver Chesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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September 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am
i would love to hear this band! they have some awesome equipment!
September 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
well… i bet they also taste good lol
September 12th, 2008 at 2:17 am
OMG! (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Gummi Bears)
my studio snack is peanut butter, i’m not sure you wanna see the mess it does in the D8B…
LOL
September 12th, 2008 at 3:02 am
giga-lol - this absolutely made my day, thanks!
September 12th, 2008 at 3:19 am
i ate all my talent:-(
September 12th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I totally dig it!
Just recently have too clean all the knobs of my virus since they were sticky. Too much chockolate, mars bars and m&m’s in my studio
September 12th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Someone is hooked on Gear prOn shots!
September 12th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Why is it your music does not sound like the cute and delicious stories you tell ?
September 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I’d like to hear these gummy bears push some musical boundaries, and I think you know what I’m thinking: Gummycore.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Put some gummy bears in a glass of water for a few days to change them into giant gummy bears ! Then put them in a inkea style aquarium to henhance your studio… definitely better than a red fish.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Gummi bears? Really……….
September 13th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Perhaps they should turn on the button on the second picture… lol
September 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Yeah it was too heavy for the them to push up. They asked me to do it after I shot the photo.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am
stupid fucking Gummi Bears! o_O :p
haha nah I love those little bastards - I hope they’re the Haribo ones - they’re the bestest!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:51 am
those hippie ‘natural’ jellies are t3h suck! - Haribo > *
September 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Love it. Just wondering what camera setup you shot these with?
September 13th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Thanks Albert… a Canon Powershot S3 IS. I also adjusted the levels and sharpness in Photoshop.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
my snacks are - redbull and worcester sauce crisps, and mars bars.
and cups of tea every five minutes and a good helping of conspiracy videos from the internet =)
September 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Wow Jonathan thats pretty awesome and sick at the same time.
October 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
wow, your post made us laugh and love you
October 28th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
ii lo0vee gummy beras
November 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
[...] those websites you check out and say, “Huh that’s cool”. I guess taking photos of Gummi Bears using synths isn’t too much different. One or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body [...]