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.”
Cats
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.
CatSynth pic: Cat and Moog Little Phatty
A cat takes a snooze on a Moog Little Phatty.
Submitted by Alex Morris via our Twitter feed. You can follow us on Twitter @catsynth.
CatSynth video: Luna and Eurorack Modular
Today, we at CatSynth have our very own “CatSynth video”. Luna looks on from her favorite beanbag chair as I attempt to operate the newly installed Eurorack modular synth.
This particular improvisation features the Metasonix R53, Make Noise Echophon, MOTM E350 Morphing Terrarium, and Circuit Abbey ADSRjr.
Our video was also posted yesterday by matrixsynth 🙂
Carnival of the Cats #435
We at CatSynth happy to be hosting Carnival of the Cats #435. For those who aren’t familiar with the carnival, it is a weekly round-up of cat blog posts from around the Internet, submitted by authors. If you would like to participate, leave us a comment – the usual “handy BlogCarnival submission form” is (yet again) not working today. But we still hope that we’ll get some people joining in today.
First up, we have Luna’s fellow house panther Diamond of Diamond’s Lair explaining the impressive feline olfactory system. This is of course an important part of cats’ world in ways that humans cannot understand.
Elivra celebrated her 2nd Gotcha Day this past week! You can visit Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat to wish her well.
Also from Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat this week, we have a survey of cat-themed art from Laguna Beach.
Next, we have a tale of two men, two lounger rooms and two cats, courtesy of the site Mrs. Banks has kittens. You can visit and judge for yourself (and check out the kitten pictures while you are there).
From strangerranger, we have photos of Maddie encountering her new collar. They also have photos of a mysterious feline visitor to their yard.
Animal Shelter Volunteer shares photos of cats Kosmo and Kramer from PAWS. We at CatSynth are fans of Seinfeld, we love the names! Animal Shelter Volunteer is also a finalist for a Pettie Award (awards for the best of pet/animal blogging). You can help them out with the voting by following this link.
At iInfidel, Ritzi likes to pull the curtains open to look out the window. She occasionally likes to stretch her claws on the curtains as well, but this is frowned upon.
If you would like to participate, we will leave the Carnival open through the end of Sunday. Please leave a comment below with your link.
Weekend Cat Blogging #370
Cats are smart. They set aside time to do nothing. I suspect Luna will be resting like this a bit during the weekend. As for me, however, I will be quite busy as usual. Today we are working on our final track for the upcoming Reconnaissance Fly album. Tomorrow I will be at Touch the Gear for the Outsound Music Summit.
And somewhere in between we will be hosting Carnival of the Cats. If you would like to participate, follow the link or use the handy BlogCarnival submission form. Alternatively, you can leave us a comment below and we’ll add you to the carnival tomorrow.
Weekend Cat Blogging 370 is hosted by Samantha, Clementine and Maverick.
The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted by us!
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.