From kingdulcimer on YouTube.
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Submitted by Anton Proskurnin on facebook:
“Maceo looks at the notes.”
I believe the keyboard is a Yamaha CP-33.
Via matrixsynth, where you can see more photos:
Also, check out recoilsun’s bandcamp, featuring music with this Buchla setup. Interesting and meditative. Not sure if the cat assisted.
Every year during the holidays, San Francisco SPCA teams up with Macy’s in San Francisco to feature adoptable pets in the holiday window displays at their main store in Union Square. For Weekend Cat Blogging, we at CatSynth present some of the cats that are featured in the windows and available for adoption.
While many of the cats go about their normal routines, this particular youngster was hamming it up for the visitors (and their cameras):
Like most holiday window displays, there is an overarching theme to the decor. This year was probably my favorite to date, as it featured scenes reminiscent of New York City during the holidays, with patches of snow on tall buildings, sidewalks and bridges. I particularly liked how the display featured this steel bridge converted into a walkway (and comfortable sleeping platform) for the cats:
At one point during my visit, one of the black kittens came over to play with the sleeping orange kitten:
The black kitten wanted to play and “make friends”, alternately batting and grooming the other one, who seemed to have no interest whatsoever. A similar scene ensued with the two older cats below the bridge, where the darker one came over and started enthusiastically grooming the lighter cat, who was less than enthusiastic about this. Nonetheless, all the antics provided an added dimension to the visit.
You can read more about the program at the official Macy’s SF/SPCA Holiday Windows site. This year, they are also provide live streaming video for those who cannot come to see the windows in person, including mobile streaming page for iPad/iPhone/iPod devices:
The SF SPCA is of course welcoming donations to support this program and all its other efforts.
Weekend Cat Blogging #289 is hosted by the tireless Nikita Cat at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
The Carnival of the Cats will up on Sunday at When Cats Attack!
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
From rarebeasts on flickr:
You can see other wicks looper photos as well as others by rarebeasts, some featuring his own cat Luna!
Stitch with a CME UF-series MIDI controller:
Submitted by Bob Motamedi via facebook.
This is a good time to remind readers that we welcome submissions of cat-and-music pictures via facebook, twitter @catsynth or the our handy submission form.
We at CatSynth are feeling pretty saturated this weekend, particularly with music and social events. But that doesn’t stop us from posting some recent unsaturated images of Luna:
Probably not the best pictures from a technical point of view (they were taken with odd lighting and at high ISO, the “setting of last resort”). But they still seem precious in their way.
Weekend Cat Blogging #288 is to be hosted by Salome at PaulChens FoodBlog?!
The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Mind of Mog.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator
Two photos from Davide Mancini, via matrixsynth:
“Pallina, my housecat. She also loves the analog warmth.”
“Same cat, another synth. She loves to sleep near the SIEL DK80, KaossPad3 and Tenori.on power supply… should be warm and humming there…”
We have seen Pallina before, click this tag to see her previous posts.
One more picture of Mimi with the Sequential Drumtraks, courtesy of our friend Eric Pochesci of Polynominal:
Follow the link to see Mimi’s previous pictures.
With delays in the construction at CatSynth HQ, I decided to bring Luna home for the weekend. It is nice to have her home, even though it is only temporary.
As one can see in the above image, things are a bit out of place in anticipation of the work, but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying our time here. Here we see Luna checking out a new toy (a birthday present from a friend of ours):
Note the picture frames neatly resting on the stairs behind her. Much of the artwork (paintings, prints, etc.) had to be moved as well.
Weekend Cat Blogging #287 is at Mind of Mog.
Kashim, Othello and Salome are pulling double duty this weekend, hosting both the weekly Carnival of the Cats and the monthly Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos. We suspect they are going to be busy.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.