OK one last list for 2017 - this time one of my album FORMS 6, WORKS ON PAPER made no.11 out of 40 over on Five against Four. WOO! (Read the review below)
Sunday 31 December 2017
Five Against Four
OK one last list for 2017 - this time one of my album FORMS 6, WORKS ON PAPER made no.11 out of 40 over on Five against Four. WOO! (Read the review below)
Friday 29 December 2017
Four Out Of Thirty
Heres another 2017 top of the pops, and I've got FOUR albums in it!! So cool - thank you Electronic Sound!!!
No.8 - Blancmange, Unfurnished Rooms
No.13 - Fader, First Light
No.21 - Lone Taxidermist, Trifle
No.23 - I Speak Machine, Zombies 1984
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Sunday 10 December 2017
Drone Poem
Labels:
Buchla,
drone poems,
my video,
oscilloscope,
synth sketches
Saturday 9 December 2017
Top Ten
Thank you THE QUIETUS for your top 100 albums of the year list. And for putting us in your top ten!!! Well done us!!!
Sunday 26 November 2017
Phasers To Stun
I decided to test out various Notch Filters around the studio the other day. I really like the way notch filters sound - like a weird phaser. In fact some so-called phasers are done like this - for example the one in the Polyfusion system I have got. Its not real phasing, but it still sounds cool. The principle behind it is this: use a high-pass and a low-pass VCF in parallel and set them so they create a notch (see diagram below). The key to it is how they frequency shift. On some of my modulars (the ARP 2500, Moog 3C and the Emu) there is a notch filter provided, but on the others its just a case of patching together a HPF and LPF and sending an LFO to control their cutoff frequencies. The CV going to the frequency of the LPF is positive and it needs to be inverted to control the cutoff frequency of the HPF so that the notch moves up and down correctly. With some trial and error I managed to get some quite nice phaser-action happening don't you think?
Friday 24 November 2017
Manual Box
I have made a high resolution scan of the Buchla 100 Music Box user manual, as I realised that the only one available online was a copy of a xerox of a copy of a dog-eared copy. Enjoy!
pdf document: Buchla 100 User Manual 2017.pdf
Sunday 12 November 2017
Moog Doodle
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Public Library
I am very excited and overjoyed and almost euphoric because I have just released my first library music album. You know that I am a huge fan of vintage library music albums, I have posted about them in the past, in fact there is a search label for library music over on the right of your screen. Some of my favourite albums are library albums! And finally I have now joined the fray, publishing my first record of synth based 100% pure electronic vintage analog sounds and effects. Its released over on the excellent ULTRAPHONIC library - you can check the album out over on their website. Its called Haute Synth
Sunday 29 October 2017
Plugged-In
About the patch - there is some crackly noise in there which I think was from one of the delay units - its creating some sort of bit-crush distortion but I quite liked it, it gives it some dirt. Anyway to make a new patch you can just start again and throw some more modules together any way you want, its pretty cool!
Buried
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Summation Operation
Cathedral Dreams
Monday 2 October 2017
Machine Speak
Great interview with Tara Busch over on arcana.fm where she is talking about our Zombies1985 album
..Interview archived below..
Saturday 30 September 2017
Memetune Album Roundup
First Up - John Foxx & The Maths - The Machine
This is the album of the soundtrack we made for the stage play version of the E.M.Forster book The Machine Stops. 'Dystopian sci-fi lullabies; icy, minimalist sound paintings; dreamy, woozy, sparkly beauty. (Uncut magazine). 'Glacial compositions suggesting the impressionist side of debut solo album, Metamatic' Mojo magazine. Reviews and interviews here and here. Get it here
Fader - First Light
Next - new project! FADER is my collaboration with Neil Arthur and First Light is our debut album, which came out on 23rd June this year. Reviews here and here and here. Buy it here
Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
Another debut album out this time on our very own Memetune label, this is the long awaited LP by Natalie Sharp, Phil Winter and Will Kwerk. Recorded at memetune over various years and in various settings (we started it in the Hoxton studio, finished recording it when the studio was in limbo in my front room, and mixed it in the new studio). ITS ALBUM OF THE MONTH RIGHT NOW OVER ON THE QUIETUS! Reviews here and here and you can buy it here and here
I Speak Machine - Zombies 1985
This is my collaboration with Tara Busch under her project name I Speak Machine, which is a vehicle for her and Maf Lewis to make short films and electronic soundtracks. If you recall I mixed their previous album The Silence, see here. The Zombies album started out as simply the soundtrack to the short film Maf made, but it evolved like a crazed demonic squirming monster into a fully fledged album with new songs and ideas based on the sound of 1985. Every instrument and sound effect was period correct! Reviews and interviews here and here and Taras blog post on the album is here. Buy it here
Blancmange - Unfurnished Rooms
Its been a total honour to be working with Neil Arthur again, this time on the new Blancmange album - "WHAT!?!? THATS AMAZING!!!" "YES I KNOW!!!!" and whats more its also getting fantastic reviews - AND ITS ALSO ALBUM OF THE MONTH in a different magazine (Classic Pop mag). Reviews and interviews here and here
Labels:
albums,
blancmange,
Fader,
John Foxx,
Lone Taxidermist,
made here,
my music,
Neil Arthur,
Tara
Thursday 17 August 2017
Re-Animator
Thursday 10 August 2017
Sunday 30 July 2017
Friday 28 July 2017
Stereo Fashion
Labels:
Buchla,
modular synthesis,
my music,
my pics,
my video
Furnished
Saturday 22 July 2017
Out Of The Box
Friday 21 July 2017
Panic Stations
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Zombified
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Monday 17 July 2017
Blackmange
Thursday 13 July 2017
Thursday 15 June 2017
Tourists
TRAILER: The Tourist as imagined by Wrangler / Tash Tung / Dan Conway from Tash Tung on Vimeo.
Wednesday 31 May 2017
I Dream Of Apples
As you might know I am a big fan of Morton Subtonick, and his pioneering recordings of the 1960s and 70s. I've posted on him before and his connection with Don Buchla and the development of the first modular synthesisers. I met him in Poland when I did a talk with Foxxy and we appeared on the same bill. He's such a great man, and he played one of the best gigs I've ever seen that weekend too. Well now those nice people behind the I Dream Of Wires documentary are crowdfunding a new biopic of Morton, which if it is as thorough as their previous work should be very worthwhile getting behind. Go here for the details
Sunday 28 May 2017
Squares
Thursday 25 May 2017
The Long Wall
Labels:
ARP,
emu modular,
formant modular,
modular synthesis,
my music,
my video,
paia,
polyfusion,
Serge Modular,
synth sketches
Monday 8 May 2017
Works On Paper
Here is a new Benge album, part six of the Forms series of "one-synth" albums
This time I used an early 1970s Serge Modular system, one of the so called "paper face" models. Please go to the bandcamp page for full informations
Labels:
benge,
Forms Series,
my music,
my pics,
my video,
Serge Modular
Sunday 7 May 2017
Hull-o
@2017Hull @wearewrangler @johngrantmusic So good. thanks for organising !! pic.twitter.com/8Bfxa36pSO
— weymes (@weymes) May 1, 2017
Tourists
TRAILER: The Tourist as imagined by Wrangler / Tash Tung / Dan Conway from Tash Tung on Vimeo.
Saturday 15 April 2017
360ies
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Coming Soon
Trifle Trailer from Ross Blake on Vimeo.
Monday 27 March 2017
Memory Modules
Here are a couple of videos of the Emu modular I just bought. Its been fixed by Andy Horrell because the very early (1973) digital sequencer wasn't working properly. Its a quirky thing at the best of times, but at least I can explore the possibilities it presents knowing that its working right and I'm not going mad. I actually managed to get hold of the legendary Dave Rossum who invented the Emu Modular and is still making really interesting instruments. He was able to help Andy debug the modules because there don't seem to be any schematics online for these first generation versions. The first video is a simple enough sequence, the second video is the same pattern but messed with using some other voltage processing modules. Its going to be a fun ride
Saturday 25 March 2017
Fade In
Fader are alive! My new project with Neil Arthur is officially up, and the shiny new (debut) album will be in the shops soon - I"M SO EXCITED!!! Thanks to Steve (Random) for all the help getting us to this stage, and to Paul (Tench) for designing our logo (above). There is a link to a preview track here on Electronic Sound. Fade out
Wednesday 15 March 2017
Visit Roland
Tuesday 14 March 2017
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