From Sawa Masaki on flickr:
Also on matrixsynth, where the synth is identified as a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
Tag: cat
-
CatSynth video: kitchen electro jam: Moog Slim Phatty, iOS Midi Touch & bent QY10
From burnkit2600 on YouTube:
Sick with a cold, Miette keeps me company while I take a 1st test drive of this portable little setup. I’m using my newly created iOS Midi Touch controller for the Moog Slim Phatty. I’m controlling the MSP arpeggiator and using it’s DIN MIDI output to play the drums on my circuit-bent Yamaha QY10. Also sloppily playing the tiny keyboard on the QY10. The audio from the QY10 is partially routed back to the Moog for processing. My bent megaphone toy circuit (red box) offers some echo on the unprocessed drums. The crappy Boss mixer & homemade stereo amp combo make the cats ears twitch. Fun.
Links:
QY10- http://www.burnkit2600.com/yamaha-qy-10/
Midi Touch- http://iosmidi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=114
Moog Slim Phatty- http://www.moogmusic.com/littlephatty/
Miette- http://www.burnkit2600.com/graphics/ani-miette-sunbath.gifI like how Miette just sits quietly there. It reminds me of Luna on her beanbag chair in the studio.
I will have to try out MIDI Touch when sometime soon… -
CatSynth video: Analogue Solutions Telemark Demo (with Doepfer DE LFO)
From HubertSsound on YouTube, via matrixsynth:
It’s actually a rather catchy demo. Check out the cat’s participation at the beginning of the song.
Controlling Analogue Solutions Telemark’s filter with Doepfer Dark Energy LFO. Dark Energy has an incredibly high LFO rate and can make for some interesting sounds when paired with the Telemark.
Gear used:
Analogue Solutions Telemark
Doepfer Dark Energy
Vermona DRM1 MkIIIIf you have your own cat-and-synthesizers or cat-and-music pictures, you can send them to us via our Facebook page, or tweet us @catsynth, or try our submission form.
-
CatSynth pic: synth gato
From TheBeastBrothers on flickr, via matrixsynth:
“”His name was Martin (pronounced in spanish) and he liked the Cure’s disintegration album the most (for real)”
The Beast Brothers are also visual artists. You can check out their website www.thebeastbrothers.com or visit their shop. I liked Suavecita (watercolor) and the Shinin (sculpture).
-
CatSynth pic: Jackson and the OP-1
Another photo of Jackson with the Teenage Engineering OP-1, from Maggie Osterberg on flickr. You can see a previous post of Jackson here.
If you would like to submit your own cat+synthesizer picture, you can post on facebook, tweet us at @catsynth, or use our submission form.
-
Shostakovich kitty picture
From Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise:
“According to the notes in this new Naxos release…the photograph was taken on June 28, 1925, two days before the completion of the First. It comes from the DSCH Archive in Moscow.”
Have you encountered any other noted composers with cats? (John Cage is a well-known example.)
-
A dizzying journey through a room full of priceless synthesizers – AHNE 2011
From hamsterdunce on YouTube, via matrixsynth (I missed this one earlier).
More music on umop.com! Background music: “O Face” by Parallax.
Get a look inside Analog Heaven Northeast 2011, an annual meetup for synth enthusiasts on the East Coast. Every year we bring a selection of irreplaceable electronic gewgaws from our respective music studios (you can spot my Customsynth Rolands in there somewhere) for each other to admire. Great turnout this year! We even had a visit from the God of Catsynth, apparently.
Cameo by the infamous “cat on a keyboard in space”.
-
CatSynth pic: Jackson & The OP-1
From Maggie Osterberg on flickr:
More from this series in coming days. It is exciting to see the OP-1 in action (particularly being played by a cat). You can see my preview of the OP-1 from last year’s NAMM show.
