Here’s a great find via Bjorn Vayner. If you think this video took a bit of work to create you would be correct. If you “head” to the Neurosonics Audiomedical website you can see a long list of credits and photos detailing the behind the scenes work.
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.
“RT @kleinenberg OMFG http://www.vimeo.com/6223439 this is unreal.. LOVE THIS!” – Bjorn Vayner
Don’t let the high production value of this vid discourage you from making your own music videos on the cheap. Remember a great song and interesting story will go a long way!
For more info: www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com
This entry was written by , posted on August 30, 2009 at 8:25 am, filed under video and tagged music video, Neurosonics Audiomedical, video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I once owned a Oberheim DMX drum machine. It’s a large early 80s drum machine based off samples. You can burn sounds using EPROMs (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). The key to this and many hardware drum machines is the groove/sequencer. Beats just sound super tight. The outputs also add a certain grainy loudness to the samples. They have started to rise on price on eBay and for good reason. Goldbaby, the guy who releases sample packs of drum machines and other gear recorded onto analog tape has released an excellent pack of DMX samples. He even created the video below showing the EPROM burning process. I’ve never seen EPROM burning in action so big thanks to Mr. Gold for the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1_aaTwWCA
“The DX was a lighter version of the classic DMX drum machine. In fact its look, features and programming method are basically the same as the DMX. The DX has individual tuning knobs for the drum tones and an external trigger input. Its sounds are sampled recordings of actual instruments. The DX only has 18 drum sounds and the DMX has 24. Both drum machines have a number of human like feel effects such as a great swing function, rolls, flams and other weird time signatures and grooves. Best of all it’s easy to operate. There are also 6 individual outputs like the DMX for easing studio use. It has been used by Hip Hop artists since the very beginning of Hip Hop! It has been used by Apollo 440, Daft Punk, and Jimi Tenor.” – www.vintagesynth.com
I honestly believe a person would get more out of a DMX and Prommer than a new Elektron Machinedrum.
Goldbaby Custom DMX is available now for $24: click here
This entry was written by , posted on August 27, 2009 at 5:10 am, filed under hardware, sounds, video and tagged drum machine, Goldbaby, Oberheim. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Analogue Heaven Northeast 2009 from stretta on Vimeo.
I was watching videos shot with the Canon 5D Mark II on Vimeo last night. The Canon 5D is in the new class of DSLR cameras that also shoot HD video. The innovation is that you can use all the different lenses available to SLRs. The footage you get from the 5D is the best I’ve ever seen outside of a movie theater. I must have missed the above video on Matrixsynth. It’s stunning and it really makes me want to put my synths on the floor and call my brother over to play for a while. When the red Macbeth M5 appears my jaw dropped!
“Once a year, analog synth enthusiasts gather to socialize and play rare and unusual musical instruments. I captured the May 2009 gathering with a Canon 5DmkII and a 50mm f/1.4 lens. I simply sat the Camera on a tripod, frame the shot as I would a photo, focused and captured. The music was produced using a Euro-format analog modular, controlled by Volta. Aside from the drums (MOTU BPM), everything was analog.” – stretta
I know many of you follow links from my Twitter and Facebook pages here and some of you are not musicians. Therefore I present you with a Squirrel shot with the Canon 5D M2:
Canon 5d Squirrel Footage from Scott Blackburn on Vimeo.
Awe, ok now back to camera chat. I think it’s vital musicians all make their own music videos. I don’t practice what I preach but that’s going to change soon! To see more gorgeous footage check out Canon 5D footage on Vimeo: click here
This entry was written by , posted on August 25, 2009 at 4:58 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged Canon 5D, M5, Macbeth, synthesizer, video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taAh1_xIfsk
I found Swayzak by their single I Dance Alone (iTunes link). Later I found the album Some Other Country (iTunes link) to be perfect office work background music. They have released a free Ableton Live pack. It’s a 50MB download available now: click here
“Swayzak is a tech house duo from the United Kingdom that consists of James S. Taylor and David Brown. They live and work in London and released their first 12″ single “Bueno” / “Fukumachi” in February 1997 to much acclaim. It was followed up by the 12″ “Speedboat” / “Low Rez Skyline” to become part of the burgeoning tech-house scene in the UK.” – Wikipedia.org
What does the word “Swayzak” mean anyway? Is it some kind of UK thing?
This entry was written by , posted on August 6, 2009 at 8:07 pm, filed under Ableton Live, interviews, music, sounds, video and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, Swayzak. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
MOOG + BIGODE from arthur joly on Vimeo.
Here’s a quick reminder to all rock bands out there to please mix your synthesizers loudly. Don’t they sound nice in the example above? Another great example of rock loud synths in action is Granddady’s AM 180: click here
This entry was written by , posted on July 20, 2009 at 4:51 am, filed under music, synthesizer, video and tagged Grandaddy, moog, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0
Here’s my notes on this video: The old Letterman intro is way cooler than the new one. What an incredible sound at 6:30. Quite ironic when Dave asks, “How to you make a living?”. Does a Prophet 08 sound like the the old 5? Really?
via Matrixsynth
This entry was written by , posted on July 10, 2009 at 9:05 pm, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged 1980, David Letterman, Prophet 5, Sequential Circuits, vocoder. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Who’s the Big Dog now? from Calvin on Vimeo.
Here’s a nice video that drove me to discover Calvin Cardioid from Toronto, Canada. Besides this nice video he’s got a nice blog called cl516. It’s full of original content with a synth slant. Here’s a nice set of sounds of a Frostwave Resonator, modulated by Freqbox and Sherman Calvin posted over at SoundCloud:
For more info: http://cl516.blogspot.com/
This entry was written by , posted on June 24, 2009 at 6:52 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged Calvin Cardioid, Freqbox, Frostwave Resonator, Minimoog, Minimoog Voyager, Sherman Filterbank. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA
This must have actually taken quite a lot of work to put together. I have to say this is far funnier than any Weird Al Yankovic.
Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do, in my sixth take on Dusto McNeato’s “literal video” concept! Lyrics: DASjr / Singing: PersephoneMaewyn & DASj – dascottjr
Related post: From happy to dark the music tells the story.
via Vain & Vapid
This entry was written by , posted on June 2, 2009 at 5:57 pm, filed under video and tagged DASj, Total Eclipse of the Heart, video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
yr3wk48 moog & tonematrix from longcat on Vimeo.
A few posts back I compared Retro vs Future audio producing technique videos. Today’s video shows old and new working together. The Moog Opus 3 was released in 1980. Vintage Synth Explorer has the Opus Manual available for download: click here ToneMatrix, Andre Michelle’s Tenori-on software clone is pure 2009: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
“With the ever wonderful moog opus 3, and the insanely addictive tone matrix from andre michelle… it’s freely usable so long as you have the most recent flash update, it reminds me of early software drum machines like hammerhead… it seems he is creating a whole reason-ish music creation world online all run with flash, it’s quite heavy on the CPU but very interesting x lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix the moog is still missing it’s string sound, but one of it’s faults allows me to just have the filter with no sound underneath which you hear at the beginning… i love this synth x” – longcat
Thanks for Robbie Knight for this video. Isn’t time shifting on a rainy (in NYC at least) Friday nice?
Related post: Thoughts and photos from the Tenori-on Berlin event.
This entry was written by , posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:09 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged longcat, moog, Opus 3, Robbie Knight, synthesizer, Tenori-on, ToneMatrix. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-e3qGQ884
I posted a link to this video last week on my Twitter and Facebook pages. It’s a joke video but it really has been stuck in my head because it showcases how music alone changes the entire context of the video. For those who don’t know Different Strokes was a happy 70’s television show. It was about an old white guy “Mr. Drummond” and how he adopted two kids and all there silly antics in New York City. The original music for the sitcom was typical happy jumpy. Simply by switching the music out the show’s intro tells an entirely different let’s say disturbing story. This shows the power of music.
More info: Different Strokes at Wikipedia
This entry was written by , posted on May 5, 2009 at 6:35 am, filed under political, video and tagged Disturbing Stokes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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