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  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Hannukah

    For this holiday edition of Weekend Cat Blogging, we present some of our images from Hunnukah, the Jewish festival that concludes at sundown tonight. Our menorah, not surprisingly, has both musical and modernist elements, with a band of musicians behind the candles.

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    As one can see, this was taken on the seventh night, which for a variety of scheduling reasons ended up being the main night on which we were able to celebrate. Luna received her gift, a blue fish toy – it is our personal tradition that designated Hannukah gifts have to be blue.

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    She seem to quite enjoy this toy, and immediately took to batting it around th floor; and play hunting with it by pushing it underneath the table and then pouncing on it. I was able to get some videos of her play:

    Weekend Cat Blogging #237, Holiday Edition is being hosted by Samantha at Life from a Cat’s Perspective.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome. We wish Kashim a happy 11th birthday.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth Video: Cleo and synthiefrau

    Originally titled “Analog and digital Synths work together…Mini Moog, Synthesizers.com.” From Synthiefrau on YouTube, via matrixsynth:

    Hi Folks, the night is cold and grey and I play Synthesizers. Sorry for the mistakes, I play live. My siamese cat Cleo listening, she love Synths also. Mini moog leadsound, Synton Syrinx leadsound, the sequenz is from the Modularsystem, My left Hand played the Roland V-Synth. Effects comes from the Roland Juno 60 and my little “kloiner Racker” Doepfer Dark Energie.
    Synthesizers are my life!!1

    Watch Cleo during the video. Like Luna, she sits quietly and puts up with her human’s weird sounds, but will make it very clear when she wants some attention for herself.

  • CatSynth pic: Synth Scooter, November, 2009

    Another from Maggie Osterberg on flickr (via matrixsynth):

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    You can see more of Maggie Osterberg’s photos of Scooter and Bob here as well.

  • Catsynth pics: Tusik, Machinedrum, Nord Wave, and more

    Via matrixsynth, a series of pictures from Yura (of practicalsenses and soundformband). “The cat’s name is Tusik.”

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    Some additional photos, with an Elektronika EM-25 and Korg N364 below:

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  • Weekend Cat Blogging: a rainy morning

    Here Luna watches as I work on some more art and music reviews to post later this weekend.

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    It is a good day for indoor activities, as it has been cold and rainy the last few days:

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    Perfect weather for drifting off to sleep.

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    especially for Luna who has been recovering from a cold (cats can get colds, too). Fortunately, she is feeling much better this weekend, and ready for the adventures ahead on this cold day…

    Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted by LB and breadchick at The Sour Dough.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday at The Carnival of the Cats home.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Catsynth pic: Keyboard Cat

    From KNNKT on flickr, via matrixsynth:

    Dolly with CME and MicroKorg

    “Dolly on a CME UF8 with MicroKorg and Korg MS2000 in the background”

  • 1000th Post

    Today we at CatSynth publish our  1000th Post!

    To mark this milestone, I created this mosaic featuring a few of Luna’s appearances:

    Mosiac of Luna's appearances on CatSynth

    [click to enlarge]

    A few fun statistical facts about our first 1000 posts:

    • Luna has appeared in 238 posts almost 25%.
    • To date, there 270 cat-and-synthesizer posts.
    • As of this writing there are 5439 comments, or an average of 5 comments per post.
    • Over 150 Weekend  Cat Blogging posts.
    • 115 Wordless Wednesday posts.
    • Approximately 10% of posts feature our current hometown of San Francisco.

    Here are the top 25 terms:

    Cats 582
    cat 414
    Synthesizers 348
    Luna 238
    Music 200
    weekend cat blogging 153
    WCB 152
    News 149
    Art 145
    Personal 133
    Wordless Wednesday 115
    San Francisco 97
    Modernism 88
    Photography 86
    Reviews 77
    Highways 70
    synth 62
    electronic music 59
    cats on tuesday 56
    analog 45
    carnival of the cats 43
    video 43
    Music 40
    Travel 38
    midnight monday 36

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Preparing for next week’s performance

    Today I had a rehearsal for next week’s Pmocatat Ensemble performance at the Luggage Store Gallery. Pmocatat stands for “prerecorded music on cds and tapes and things”, and among the prerecorded sounds I plan to use this time are some recordings of Luna:

    The name of the microphone I used this morning to record her is also called Luna. It is a pretty decent microphone, though recording a cat is going to be challenging with any equipment. Here is a recording of her purring:

    You can hear a recording here.

    I also used the audio from Luna’s chattering videos.

    For those “in the business,” I would like to mention that using Pro Tools (my default option) to extract the sounds from the video did not work at all – it was difficult to do and produced really noisy results – while using Final Cut Pro plus the free program Audacity worked great.

    All this preparation work got us rather tired, so time for a nap:

    Weekend Cat Blogging #235 will be hosted by Kashim, who stepped in at the last minute.

    And don’t forget that Carnival of Cats will be hosted tomorrow right here at CatSynth! To participate, please submit your post here.

  • CatSynth pic: Mimi and Elka Synthex

    From our friend Eric Pochesci at Polynominal, another picture of Mimi, this time with an Elka Synthex:

    You can find out more about the Synthex here.

  • Reunion

    This morning I brought Luna home. She immediately went about reacquainting herself with her domain:

    In addition to being reunited, we marked her birthday with gifts and treats. She also received a card from a far-away friend of ours:

    Doesn’t the cat on the card bear a striking resemblance?

    We also had a belated Thanksgiving, complete with leftover turkey from New York:

    It’s great to be home together again.