From F5D on SoundCloud, via matrixsynth.
“A texture sound that I programmed for DSI Prophet 08 analog synth. Watch your speaker levels for surprises!”
You can listen to the sound below.
Tag: Cats
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CatSynth video: Grumpy Cat gets Keyboard Cat toy
First CatSynth post of the new year, this one features both Grumpy Cat and Keyboard Cat (in toy form).
Not surprisingly, I have one of those keyboard cat toys. I have used it in performance and it might make an appearance this Saturday at SOMArts’ 100 Performances For the Hole. Stop by between 7-8 to catch my 4-minute feline-themed set!
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San Francisco SPCA Holiday Windows, 2013
One of our favorite holiday traditions here in San Francisco is the window display at Macy’s flagship Union Square store featuring adoptable pets from the San Francisco SPCA.
There were quite a few kittens on display, some in windows that featured a theme of holidays in the city. Some really knew how to ham it up for the visitors, like this cutie:
They always get a good response from the public including numerous adoptions, which is of course what this event is all about. And we at CatSynth love seeing cats finding new homes.
You can find out more about the program at the SF SPCA’s website, including visiting hours and how to donate to help the city’s homeless pets. And if you live here or you’re visiting SF this holiday season, go downtown and see the cats in person!
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CatSynth video: Midnight Juggernauts, Uncanny Valley
Midnight Juggernauts – Systematic (Official Video) from Record Makers on Vimeo.
Submitted by our friend Jack Hertz via our Facebook page.
Taken from “Uncanny Valley”, Midnight Juggernauts’ new album : smarturl.it/UncannyValleyiTunes & “Systematic EP” : bit.ly/1btTvLS
Grab your CD/vinyl copy of the album on our shop : bit.ly/dmslqA
Directed by Mrzyk & Moriceau
Produced by Division
Follow Midnight Juggernauts :
midnightjuggernauts.com
facebook.com/MidnightJuggernauts
twitter.com/JuggernautsI love the bass+synth disco thing they have going in this track. Oh, and the cats, too 🙂
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HELLA KITTY Free Sample Library
From DarkSideoftheTune on SoundCloud. Submitted by Shawn Shirey via our Facebook page
A Howling Free Sample Library from Dark Side of the Tune
Hella Kitty is a 39 sound library containing cat sounds that were altered with a vocoder to create robotic and ethereal sound design options.
Source synthesizers include:
Arturia Minibrute
Moog Slim Phatty
Doepfer Dark EnergyAs always, if you like these sounds, please consider stopping by the shop and checking out the other libraries for purchase at www.darksideofthetune.com
Free Library: docs.google.com/file/d/0BzLbZ1FMX…/edit?usp=sharing
I have of course downloaded this one 🙂
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Cats (and Music) of Syria
One of the ways to empathize with a place, and by extension its people, is through the things that touch you strongly. So we at CatSynth present images of cats and traditional music from Syria.
[Photo by Arbo Moosberg on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]The picture above is from Aleppo. Apparently a woman off-frame is feeding them. The next cats are enjoying quite the view of Damascus while having dinner.
[Photo by delayed gratification on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]These young cats in a garden in Damascus seem quite healthy and contented in their verdant surroundings.
[Photo by Jose Luis Canales from Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)]Back in Aleppo, we meet a cat named Lulu playing outside.
[Photo by Ali Qasmo from Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]The photographer of the above image, Ali Qasmo, is from Syria – the others were taken by various visitors. Indeed, he has taken quite a few pictures of local cats, which you can see on his Flickr page.
[Photo by Ali Qasmo from Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]Cats do have to cope with the effects of the civil war there, just as humans do. Here we see a cat sitting amongst debris in the city of Homs:
[Photo from Freedom House on Flickr. (CC BY 2.0)]Syria (like many countries in the region) teems with cats. But it also has a rich tradition of music. String instruments are particularly prominent in traditional music, including the bazuq:
[Photo by xlynx on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]The above photo comes with a story of the chance encounter between the photographer and the musician, which ultimately included a bit of improvisation together. Here is a video of the musician playing solo:
Channeling my inner music-geek for moment, I found myself looking in detail at the arrangement from frets, which are not monotonically decreasing in distance towards the body as they would on modern Western fretted instruments.
This photo of a traditional musician was taken in the town of Palmyra:
[Photo by James Gordon from Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)]If anyone knows the name of the instrument in the picture, I would be curious to know, as it reminds me a bit of the Indian ektar that I sometimes play.
And we conclude with an image of a cat and kitten together at the Der Mar Musa monastery in western Syria (near Lebanon):
[Photo by Stijn Nieuwendijk from Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)] -
World Cat Day
Today many of our friends from Cat Blogosphere and elsewhere are celebrating World Cat Day. It was founded in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and other animal rights groups. Of course, it is a bit redundant here at CatSynth where every day is a cat day, but it is good to set aside a date in the greater society to recognize the contributions of cats.
While we haven’t done much per se to mark today other than lifting the graphic displayed above from Ann of Zoolatry, several of our fellow bloggers have fun posts for today.
The Island Cats have some cat proverbs.
Animal Shelter Volunteer has a collage of colorful and adoptable cats.
Georgia, Tillie and the rest of the cats from Halifax have a special card. They also agree with us that “cat day” is a bit redundant.
The Opinionated Pussycat has some basic facts about the date.
Purrchance to Dream has a world graphic with the whole gang (it seems like they’re always growing in number).We can’t post everyone here, but you can hop over to the Cat Blogosphere for more festive links.
