Submitted by Davor Gazde via our Facebook page. This cat definitely owns the synths and is ready to defend them with his laser eyes!
Tag: moog
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Moog Sub Phatty Including Cat-O-Steel
flickr by Luchs Later, via matrixsynth.
You can read about my encounter with the Moog Sub Phatty at NAMM here.
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CatSynth pic: Cat & Plush Minimoog (softmachines)
Via matrixsynth and Endai Hüdl.
“i always love happy customer photos!
this cat is called moog and lives in Madrid.”More on softmachines pillows here.
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CatSynth pic: Moog Voyager
“Got to borrow this voyager :)”
Submitted by Mike Durek of The Use. You can see a report from the recent performance by The Use at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.
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CatSynth pic: Pinto and Moog Little Phatty
Submitted by DC Astro via our Facebook page.
“Our cat Pinto enjoying my new Moog Little Phatty!!”
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CatSynth pic: Moog Little Phatty
Submitted by Christy Purrrlington (@Puffystudiocat) via Twitter.
“I find you trigger the best arpegiators if you spread out on the keys.”
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CatSynth pic: Moog Taurus II Pedals
Via matrixsynth, where you can see more photos of the Moog Taurus II pedals. This was the only one with the cat.
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CatSynth pic: Moog Source Synthesizer
Peek-a-boo!
Via matrixsynth, where you can see more pictures of the Moog Source itself.
It’s been a while since I have seen a cassette data interface. I hated those.
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Pitta of the Mind and Mezzacappa-Phillips Duo, Luggage Store Gallery
Today we look back at my latest performance with Pitta of the Mind at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, a show that also featured a set by the Mezzacappa-Phillips duo.
Pitta of the Mind is my music-and-poetry duo with poet Maw Shein Win. It was our fourth performance as a duo, and probably our most polished to date. As with our previous performance at last year’s Skronkathon, we selected a color as the overarching theme for the set. That time it was silver, this time it was blue, which was reflected in our costumes, props (including a little blue tree), and the content of some of the poems. The selections were a bit darker and melancholy than at the Skronkathon, and overall the set had a more serious feel. There were, however, humorous moments in both words and interpretive dance moves from Maw. For the music behind the poems, I used a variety of iPad apps including Sunrizer, Animoog and Bebot. The challenge was to provide sound that fit with the poems without overpowering them.
[Maw Shein Win. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]After the main course of our poetry-and-music set, I played a solo improvisation on the analog modular system as dessert.
A subpatch with the E350 Morphing Terrarium from Synthesis Technology, the Make Noise Maths, and the KOMA Eletronik SVF-201 filter formed the foundation, with other modules patched in and out during the course of the performance. I was aiming for noisy rhythmic patterns, and sometimes succeed, while at other times allowed the sound to move in the direction of longer drones or unstable chaos.
[Click to enlarge.]The set was well received by the small but appreciated audience, and we got quite a few positive comments for both words, music and our coordinated blue outfits.
Lisa Mezzacappa and Noah Phillips opened with with a set of improvised music for upright base and guitar, respectively. Both are virtuosic improvisers, and I expected good things from their set. They explored a wide variety of extended techniques, some percussive and some more drone-like, and moving freely between more structured and free-form rhythms. Overall, the timbres, harmonies and textures were quite beautiful and visually evocative.
[Noah Phillips and Lisa Mezzacappa. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]Interestingly, this was not the first time we shared the bill with the Mezzacappa-Phillips duo. We were all together at a show in Oakland in 2011. I’m glad we had the change to perform together again.
