Photo by mrclean on flickr.
“Synthesizer Patel recommended I get a ‘watch cat’. People are always stealing your synthesizers you know.”
black cat
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.
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 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 🙂
Weekend Cat Blogging: Light and shadow
This week, we have an exercise in light and shadow with this Instagram photo of Luna on the window sill. It was taking around 1pm on a Sunday, not the best time of day for photos. But with cats, you can to take the shot when it happens using the tools at hand. The lighting places much of Luna in shadow, which makes her dark fur even darker. But there is also a patch of light on her fur.
Luna is happy to be home after I was out of town for a few days on my desert trip, which was full of quiet stark landscape, intense heat, and “self discovery.” I already shared one photo for the most recent Wordless Wednesday. I am sure I will be sharing more soon.
By coincidence Jules is also showing off light and shadow contrast on his black fur this weekend as he hosts Weekend Cat Blogging at Judi’s Mind Over Matter.
The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Kashim, Othello and Salome.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Flash
It’s been a little while since we have done a combined Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt. This week’s theme is Flash.
I don’t often use a flash when taking Hipstamatic photos of Luna, but when I do I can get some interesting results.
In addition to the “laser eyes”, we see Luna posing with our heart-shaped kalimba.
Weekend Cat Blogging #368 is hosted by Jules and Vincent at Judi’s Mind Over Matter.
The Saturday Photo Hunt is up with this week’s topic Flash.
The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
Weekend Cat Blogging: Fun with Highways
Today two of our frequent series collide. It’s a “Fun with Highways” edition of Weekend Cat Blogging as Luna poses near some of our California highway signs.
I-80 has obvious significance, as we live very close to its western terminus. Indeed, I used a clip of Luna with the I-80 sign back in April for the video performance I did at SOMArts. It was projected onto a two-story wall next to the I-80 terminal interchange.
By contrast, California Highway 41 (which runs from the coast through the Central Valley to Yosemite) is a bit more esoteric, but it might be part of a future conceptual art project.
Yes, we at CatSynth are a bit eccentric. But you probably already knew that.
Weekend Cat Blogging #367 is hosted by Pam and Smudge at Sidewalk Shoes.
The Carnival of the Cats will be up tomorrow at iMeowza, the home of Meowza who went to the Rainbow Bridge in May. We keep him and his family in our thoughts.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator
Weekend Cat Blogging #366: Morning Rituals
it’s another busy weekend ahead of us, so just have a quick post featuring our common morning rituals here at CatSynth HQ.
There is coffee (in a cat-themed mug), newspaper on the iPad, and of course Luna.
A big thank you to everyone who wrote in last weekend to wish Luna a happy Gotcha Day.
This weekend marks the 7th Anniversary of Weekend Cat Blogging. This special edition will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome at PaulChens FoodBlog?!.
The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at iInfidel.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
CatSynth video: Synth Studio Tour with Zac the Black Cat
Submitted by James Bragg via our Facebook page.
Quick view around the Fernforest Project Studio. My black cat likes sitting on things that are black and stylish. He thinks he fits in well and looks cool.
Synths in order – Doepfer Modular A-100, Moog Etherwave Theremin, Moog Voyager Old School, Schlagswerg analogue drum machine, CP-251 moog control processor, Dave Smith Mopho and Tetra, Mackie Onyx firewire mixer, PC, M-Audio Oxygen 25, NI Maschine and a Monome my brother built.
The music is called “Dark Glow” by me. you can find the whole track on soundcloud.
Weekend Cat Blogging: Modernist Sunshine
Luna always loves the patches of sunshine that pour into CatSynth HQ in the morning. On this particular morning we see her posing regally in an Art-Deco-patterned sunshine spot. The shadow is cast by the table just behind her, a piece that dates back to my graduate-student days in Berkeley but still fits the overall style of our current pad in the city.
On a sad note, we learned that our friend and fellow cat-blogger has passed away. We send her family our thoughts.
Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted by Bengal Business.
The Carnival of the Cats will be up tomorrow at Mind of Mog
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.