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This is insane. Cubase64 by Mahoney running on a vintage Commodore 64!

I am working on a new album that has nothing to do with any of the music I’ve made previously titled La Petite Mort. It’ bit more conceptual then what I would normally do, but I’ve really enjoyed working on it. The album is going to feature a ton of my personal library of weird shortwave radio recordings from all over the world. Here’s a video teaser of what to expect. There’s more audio on the La Petite Mort mini site as well…

- Polyfuse, La Petite Mort
- Polyfuse.net

James Cigler is the best when it comes to making videos demonstrating and explaining the functionality and features of both simple and complicated modules. This guy is a pro!

This weekend is going to be all out chaos – I’m sure lots of video will surface and I’ll probably be recording irrelevant mishaps that will inevitably occur. I’m looking forward to seeing you and watching you get drunk. If you haven’t received an e-mail today and plan on attending – you need to contact me.

This is by Rob of Xart Studios. You can tell why we’re friends. Internet friends. The video is standard but the description is amazing.

“Leader Kim Jong Il is a pioneer of experimental music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is one of the leading figures in the avant-garden.

In DPRK the people are not like in US. In US the people make music for personal profit of capitalist, making lives of people miserable and dark.

But in DPRK all the people have deep love of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il and they have also love for each other. In DPRK the comrades make experimental musick to build the independant powerful prosperous country under care of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il who give warm fatherly love to the people like rainbow coming out of sun in the sky.”

The Motion Graphics Festival is going on right now in Chicago and I’ll (Justin) be playing along side seven other artists for an event called MATCH^. Each musician is paired with a video artist and every pairing will get just twenty minutes to perform.

In an over-zealous attempt to combine motion, sound and code-based art, MGFest has concocted a new approach to organizing live A/V performances. Come, sit back and enjoy yourself while 7 diverse acts perform custom collaborated audio-visual shows.

1 week prior to the main event, MGFest invites 14 genre specific artist groups to speed-meet each other and vote on who they will collaborate with. Each music group is paired with a visual act and are given 7 days to create their 20 minute audio-visual show to be performed at MATCH^. By pre-connecting artists and providing them a week-long creation timeline, MATCH^ ignites a performance explosion of greater synesthesia by reciprocating multiple cognitive waves of creative harmony – between curator and performer, between audience and spectacle, between music and motion. We invite your eyes and ears to come dance together!

Now featuring an additional performance group!

AND the MATCH’s being showcased:

MATCH^ 2010 Chicago Lineup and set times:

7:00 MANG + Light on Lines
7:25 Carla Starla + Midwest Visuals
7:50 Searchl1te + Merkaba Visuals
8:15 Quadratic + GravityMax
8:40 Polyfuse + Alibi Visuals
9:05 Lokua + Glen Stephani
9:25 Eric Lester + Edyta Stepien
9:50 Phylum Sinter + Galina Shevchenko

- Event on Facebook
- MGFEST Main site
- polyfuse.net

I have a bunch of information I can’t share that will make an appearance at the synth meet this weekend. Here’s some intel that I can share…

Looks like Tip Top Audio is making a table top case that will be rack mountable. 4HP power supply is on the right side. This looks amazing and I would definitely use two for live performances.

Scott Jaeger of Harvestman will be bringing the first functioning SuONOIO’s. I’m really excited to finally get my hands on one after months of hearing how amazing they are from both Alessandro and Scott!

It’s this fucking Saturday and Sunday! I’ll be watching everyone getting wasted this weekend. Maybe I’ll be in the shadows. Maybe I’ll have my pants off. There has been a trade off with performers. We have added Harvestman who will surely compliment Richard Devine’s set on saturday. More news later…

Division 6 (Washington)
Five12 Inc (New Mexico)
Flight of Harmony (Washington)
Gorilla Box (California)
Harvestman (Washington)
Make Noise (North Carolina)
Malekko (Oregon)
Mattson (Washington)
MegaOhmAudio (Illinois)
Pro Modular (New York)
Pittsburgh Modular (Pennsylvania)
STG (Illinois)
Tip Top Audio (California)

Saturday Performances by:
Richard Devine
Harvestman
More to be announced….

It’s so big that this is the only way it would fit. Moog Voyager XL, pre-order at Big City Music

- Full resolution (and correctly oriented!) image
- More photos: here and here.

Taken from Scott’s Facebook…

“This was the first feature-complete prototype of the Donut. The PCB had some serious routing issues, so it never worked correctly and caused me a great deal of frustration. It was also the only module in my junk bin with a panel and no hope of rehabilitation into something musically useful.

The first shot immediately sheared all of the knobs off of the module, as the panel came away from the board assembly. Four of the pot shafts were snapped off as well. I only recovered about half of the knobs. Despite scoring two direct hits on the tact switches, I recovered most of the parts from all 5 switches. The force of the projectile impact blew most of the surface mount parts (0805 size) off of the board, I wasn’t able to find any of them except for the crystal and a single electrolytic capacitor.

Load: Remington 125gr SJHP .38 Special +P (some garbage that had been laying in the back of my safe for a while). The brass and the recovered module fragments have been saved for use in an art project. I tried to pull a bullet from that tree stump but I couldn’t do it without damaging the tools I had on hand.”

Above is a few faceplates of modules that Harvestman is currently working on except the one on the right, the Stillson Hammer. It has arrived to Analog Haven and is available now from Analog Haven. An overview will be posted sometime next week.

Official details:
Burst generator with six outputs. A manual button press (or external gate input) will start a “burst” of repeated gate events coming out of a selected range of outputs. Burst frequency (time between gate outputs), output span (from 1 to 6 outputs), and event count are all voltage controllable. The pattern of output transition is also selectable: normal forward sequential travel, pendulum (forward, then backward), and random patterns are available.

Apparently there is a Stillson Hammer used in this piece below by The Harvestman. I can’t identify it in the example but this track is amazing on its own.
082710 piston delay by harvestman

- Harvestman – Stillson Hammer
- Analog Haven – Stillson Hammer