From carianoff on YouTube, via matrixsynth.
“Didn’t see an actual unboxing for the Machinedrum so I just went ahead an made one. My cat Rikku quickly got involved in the process.”
Cats
CatSynth pic: black cat and korg monotron
Photo by mrclean on flickr.
“Synthesizer Patel recommended I get a ‘watch cat’. People are always stealing your synthesizers you know.”
Weekend Cat Blogging #372
For Weekend Cat Blogging, we have a bit of simplicity and elegance.
Luna strikes a perfect pose in the living room of CatSynth HQ. Here is to hoping that today is as calm and focused as this image.
Weekend Cat Blogging #372 is hosted by Ritzi at Mind of Mog.
The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
CatSynth pic: Taro
Another from Sawa Masaki featuring the white cat Taro.
If you would like to submit your cat-and-synth photo, you can do so via our Facebook page, tweet us @catsynth, or contact us.
Roland Fantom Tesco Scanner D-Beam
via Fernando Costa Tecladista on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge. Also on the matrixsynth blog.
“”I found this sound on my Fantom and it sounds exactly like one of the tills at Tesco.”
CatSynth pic: Cat and guitar pedals
Submitted by Chrissie_c via our Twitter @catsynth.
Seems like Twitter has been the main source of reader submissions in the past couple of weeks. But you can still also submit via our Facebook page, or contact us.
CatSynth video: Cat listening to music – Chris Marker
This short film by Chris Marker is gorgeous and made me smile. So peaceful and elegant.
Submitted by PuffyStudioCat via our Twitter @catsynth.
We have mentioned Chris Marker before. It was his film Sans Soleil that helped me to discover shrine near Tokyo dedicated to cats.
Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Song
Cats and music are core to what we do here at CatSynth, so the combination of Weekend Cat Blogging and the Photo Hunt theme of song would seem to be a perfect match. But when we interpret song more strictly as a particular type of musical composition, it becomes a bit more challenging. Here I attempt to get Luna to pose with some sheet music:
This is actually a page from the last song we need to record for our Reconnaissance Fly album. I also found another photo of Luna with sheet music (also from Reconnaissance Fly) in the archives:
Weekend Cat Blogging #371 will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome at PaulChens FoodBlog?!. This edition is in honor of sher, a longtime participant of Weekend Cat Blogging and food blogger who tragically passed away four years ago.
The Saturday Photo Hunt is up. This week’s theme is song.
Carnival of the Cats will be up tomorrow at Mind of Mog.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
CatSynth pic: Cat and Korg Mono/Poly
CatSynth 6th Anniversary
Today marks our 6th anniversary! It’s amazing to think that we have been going on with this for 6 years. The past year has been a good one, in terms of quality of the post and engagement with readers here on the blog as well as via Facebook and Twitter, and we’re looking forward to an even better year ahead.
And we are celebrating as we always do, with statistics.
1933 posts.
10714 comments.
463,958 visitors.
258 reviews of art, music and technology.
621 catsynth pics and videos.
57% of posts feature cats
19% of posts feature Luna
Most frequently-cited synthesizer brands:
Korg (100)
Moog (72)
Roland (70)
Via Google Analytics, a map of where people are visiting from:
Top countries:
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Germany
Australia
France
Italy
Poland
Netherlands
The non-anglophone country that sent the most visitors to CatSynth is Germany.
Our top commenters for July 2011-July 2012:
| Kitty | 141 |
| Tillie and Georgia | 135 |
| meowmeowmans | 132 |
| Gattina | 77 |
| Snowcatcher | 61 |
| AVCr8teur | 55 |
| Beth F | 50 |
| Sue St Clair | 46 |
| Marg | 45 |
| Beth @ 990 Square | 44 |
| Daisy the Curly Cat | 39 |
| SandyCarlson (USA) | 39 |
| Cafe au lait | 37 |
| Judi | 33 |
| Louis la Vache | 33 |
| Mitch | 32 |
| Maria @ LSS | 32 |
| The Chair Speaks | 31 |
| caite@a lovely shore breeze | 29 |
| Indrani | 29 |
| Robin from Israel | 27 |
| Sweet Purrfections | 26 |
| Carol @ There’s Always Thyme to Cook | 24 |
| Sukhmandir Kaur | 24 |
| Katz (And Other) Tales | 21 |
| Li | 19 |
| Cats of Wildcat Woods | 18 |
| Daisy Deadhead | 15 |
| Fuzzy Tales | 12 |
Our most commented articles this past year:
And finally, the posts most “liked” by Facebook users.
It is quite interesting how the set of posts receiving the most blog comments and those receiving the most Facebook likes are completely disjoint. The former tends towards Wordless Wednesday and Luna, while the latter tends towards cat-and-synth pics and art/music reviews. Certainly something to reflect on as we move forward into this next year.