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CatSynth pic: Expurrrt calibration (Moog Minitaur)
Black Cat Appreciation Day
Today, August 17 is officially Black Cat Appreciation Day. Of course, that could apply to any day here at CatSynth.
My black cat Luna, who was originally adopted from a shelter, certainly gets a lot of appreciation and love.
Black cats are sleek and gorgeous. And I have often found them to be among the most sweet and affectionate of cats. Luna is no exception on either front.
Sadly, black cats are still among the last to be adopted from shelters in the United States. Whether it’s lingering superstition or plain bias is hard to say. I see way too many heartbreaking stories of abandoned black cats in kill shelters reaching the end of their time. Black Cat Appreciation Day is an effort to highlight the plight of black shelter cats but also to celebrate them as wondrous companions. This video, from the Meadow Lake Humane Society of Saskatchewan, Canada, always gets to me:
There are numerous local groups on Facebook and elsewhere dedicated to helping black cats, and I encourage interested readers to check them out.
CatSynth video: Creepy Space Cat
From kj6bbs on YouTube, via matrixsynth.
“Discovered something new tonite.” [sic]
That is indeed part of the fun of modulars, of electronic music in general. Did you spot the cat in the video?
Feline welcome to Portland
My trip to Portland for BPOW!!! (the Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop) is over and it’s now time to reflect and report for the blog. Overall, this trip very much in line with the things I write about on CatSynth: electronic music, synthesizers, mathematics, urban landscape, photography, architecture, and even cats. Indeed, I know things were off to a good start when I arrived on Friday night and was immediately greeted by this cat:
It turns out this is Athena, one of the cats that lives with Travis Feldman, creator of the Molecule Synth and the host of BPOW!!!.
Look for a few more BPOW- and Portland-related posts on these pages in the coming days.
World Cat Day
Today many of our friends from Cat Blogosphere and elsewhere are celebrating World Cat Day. It was founded in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and other animal rights groups. Of course, it is a bit redundant here at CatSynth where every day is a cat day, but it is good to set aside a date in the greater society to recognize the contributions of cats.
While we haven’t done much per se to mark today other than lifting the graphic displayed above from Ann of Zoolatry, several of our fellow bloggers have fun posts for today.
The Island Cats have some cat proverbs.
Animal Shelter Volunteer has a collage of colorful and adoptable cats.
Georgia, Tillie and the rest of the cats from Halifax have a special card. They also agree with us that “cat day” is a bit redundant.
The Opinionated Pussycat has some basic facts about the date.
Purrchance to Dream has a world graphic with the whole gang (it seems like they’re always growing in number).
We can’t post everyone here, but you can hop over to the Cat Blogosphere for more festive links.
CatSynth pic: Modular cat #modular #eurorack #cats #synthesizers
CatSynth video: cat plays synth
From wwwwiebeniknu on YouTube. I think the title “cat plays synth” says it all. It’s a filter sweep of some sort. Anyone care to identify the synth?
If you have a cat-and-gear picture or video you would like to share, you can do so via our Facebook page, Twitter @catsynth, or by contacting us.
Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: Napping near the Artwork
Cats always find interesting places to nap. For Luna, that sometimes means next to the standing artwork. We have quite a few free-standing 3D pieces in the collection at CatSynth HQ.
Luna will probably be napping quite a bit this weekend, as I will be spending most of it in the studio with Reconnaissance Fly as complete the final mixes for our upcoming album. In the evenings, I will be back here to work on a completely different musical project, my electronic solo show in Portland next Saturday. But Luna gets to sit in and supervise that one.
Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Samantha, Clementine and Maverick.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
Robotspeak Adapter Build Workshop in San Fransisco 8/17/13
via matrixsynth:
“Adapter build workshop.
This is a simple passive universal adapter allowing interfacing of a Eurorack or Serge with other gear.
“What do I get ?”
You get the pedal box with holes in it, all the jacks, some wire, directions, help building & a place to build it for 3 hours. (it really shouldn’t take more than 2 hours).
Free modular synth performance @2pmPS: Yes you can use it to interface your eurorack with your Moog or Serge , or even your home stereo or VCR! Yes its a pocket mult, Yes its a pocket adapter a banana stacking mult/adapter.
To sign up contact steve.t at robotspeak dot com”
It’s in San Francisco, it helps with Eurorack and other gear, and their ad has a cat in it! How could I not attend?