From TheRoyalChannel on YouTube, via matrixsynth:
“The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall listen to a “cat-organ” at the START Festival with Brian Blessed, Jools Holland and Alan Titchmarsh. Visit http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk and http://www.startuk.org to find out more.”
No real cats were harmed in this performance.
From Achromatic Lodge on flickr, via matrixsynth:
Korg Poly-800 in the corner. Yahama bass drum / napping place.
Click to enlarge SFEMF poster
The 11th San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will be happening today through Saturday and I plan to be there for at least the performances tonight and Saturday. Once again, I will be live-tweeting and readers can follow on Twitter @catsynth or via the #SFEMF tag. So those not in the Bay Area can follow along vicariously – though I encourage local electronic-music enthusiasts to attend in person.
The performance tonight includes a collaboration of Alessandro Cortini, whose videos and images we have been featuring here on over the past coulee of months, with Don Buchla. Also performing are another synthesis pioneer John Chowning, and Ben Bracken. You can see the full schedule for the event here.
From rarebeasts on flickr:
“Can’t get a camera out without luna turning up.
The EM-Tronic is a small hand held synth that makes a large range of electronic noises.”
You can see the EM-Tronic in action in this video:
Quite a variety of sounds in such a small box.
Submitted by vlern via facebook:
It’s a good time for a reminder that you, too, can submit your cat-and-synthesizer or cats-and-music pictures via facebook, tweet them to us @catsynth, or use our submissions form.
Also, check out more cats on Tuesday.
From chuckieart on YouTube:
The debut of Keyboard Cat’s new summer hit, “A OK”!
KC always knows how to kick out the jams!
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Also seen recently on matrixsynth.
From fatern on YouTube, via matrixsynth:
“goodmorning theremin 3
play in japan.
saijyo wataru & fatern’s song.
song call[shirouma]”
This what a theremin can sound like when one plays it well. And the bending tones fit quite well into more traditional Asian music – it reminiscent of a bowed string instrument.
Another sample:
“morning theremin play in my house at Osaka.
I Love JC77&moog sounds!!!
http://www.myspace.com/watafei.
written by SAIJYO WATARU”
From CDM, also on matrixsynth:
The CDM link features an extensive interview with Alessandro Cortini as well as several photos and videos, and more information about his SONOIO recording and accompanying portable synthesizer SuONOIO, a joint project of Cortini and Harvestman.
You can see previous articles that feature Cortini and SONOIO (and his cat Frank) by following the SONOIO tag.
He will also be performing at the upcoming San Francisco Electronic Music Festival in September. I will be attending.
From Steven Litt of CrudLabs, featured in an article on Rhizome:
“Kitteh! Steve’s cats Perrey and Kingsley’s homage to CatSynth“
Thanks to Steve Litt and Cici Moss of Rhizome for the tribute :). More information from the article on the CrudBox:
While a graduate student at NYU’s ITP program, Steve developed a machine known as the CrudBox. Central to his installations and performances, the CrudBox allows users to plug electronic or electromechanic devices into a 16 step, 8 channel step sequencer. While normal sequencers draw from a set bank of sounds, the CrudBox allows one to plug in devices such as turntables or solenoids or power tools, opening up the range of sounds one can sequence.
This would certainly be an interesting device to use in live performances.
