Tag: cat
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CatSynth pics: Kitteh can has moogs
From softestthing on flickr:
There are several other pictures in the “kitteh can has moogs” series featuring Harrison (aka “harry potterbelly”). You can see the all of them here:
I realized that we have actually met this cat once before, in “kitteh can has modz”.
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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.
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.
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.
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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!!1Watch 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.
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CatSynth pic: Synth Scooter, November, 2009
Another from Maggie Osterberg on flickr (via matrixsynth):
You can see more of Maggie Osterberg’s photos of Scooter and Bob here as well.
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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.”
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.
It is a good day for indoor activities, as it has been cold and rainy the last few days:
Perfect weather for drifting off to sleep.
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.
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Catsynth pic: Keyboard Cat
From KNNKT on flickr, via matrixsynth:
“Dolly on a CME UF8 with MicroKorg and Korg MS2000 in the background”
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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:
[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.
