Composers' Symposium

"It's just a small word from a smaller island, but the ripples created by Jamaica's revolutionary experiments in sound are still being felt some 40 years later. This documentary flag-waves the influence of dub to such a degree you may be left wondering if there's any corner of the music world untouched by King Tubby's baby, and just what role it had in the invention of sliced bread. Except, of course, it's all true, minus the Sunblest." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

i may have just bought a couple of early 1980s 8-bit DDLs, one of which is also a pitch transposer. 0_o - Hieronymous Boob

from early 2005. i wonder if we'll ever finish this new album? so much seems to get in the way. - Hieronymous Boob

and by "so much" i mean my rotten health and everyone else's 15 other side-projects. :P - Hieronymous Boob

"If you'e not heard the news, famed engineer/producer Andy Johns passed away over the weekend. Andy was instrumental in so many hits by rock icons from The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Van Halen to newer artists like Cinderella, Joe Satriani and Chicken Foot. He was a guy that definitely liked to have fun, but he was dead serious when it came to recording. In honor of his life, here's an interview I did with Andy for The Mixing Engineer's Handbook that contains so much of his wisdom." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Andy Johns, the veteran producer and engineer who worked on classic albums by Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen and many others, has died at the age of 61. The news was confirmed to Billboard.biz by guitarist Stacy Blades, who was working on an untitled project with Johns until the producer was hospitalized last week. No cause of death was immediately available for the British-born Johns, the younger brother and uncle, respectively, of fellow producer/engineers Glyn Johns and Ethan Johns. However, Blades said liver trouble was one reason why Johns had been hospitalized." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Born in Surrey and a student at the King's School in Gloucester, Johns put aside an early ambition "to be the next greatest bass player of all time" to follow his brother into the studio world. "It looked a lot better than working," Johns told Universal Audio. He began his career as a tape operator at London's famed Olympic Studios, helping Eddie Kramer on sessions for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Axis Bold as Love."" - Hieronymous Boob

she had a bit of red light fever at the beginning and got tongue-tied, but that evaporated soon. - Hieronymous Boob

Yup, definitely. - Le Slip Anglais from Android

"It’s time to go back to the old school method of patch storage: Pen and paper! Here you can listen to presets created for the excellent MiniBrute and download the corresponding patch sheet. All patches are free. The patch sheet used is a modified version of the one which comes with Minibrute and makes precise marking of all settings much easier. This page will be updated with new presets as they are made, so make sure that you come back if in need of extra sounds for your MiniBrute." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno: 1) a tape loop system (1 recorder, top right) 2) long delay (2 recorders: top left and middle right) 3) reverse delay (bottom middle) 4) tape feedback/tape saturation on system 1, 2 and 3 The tascam 8 track is not doing anything here.. except being a rather expensive table for two other recorders, btw. the video in the second part doesn't really match the music, the camera fell so I couldn't use the original.. I wasn't doing all that much except for letting the long tape delay saturate on itself for a very very long time..." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Hard at work in the studio on a forthcoming collaboration. The spacey sounds were generated by cEvin on 'Synthasaurus' - the massive modular synth." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

gear list has the beginnings of some bad Detroit techno until the modular shows up...and then it's the descent into Tangerine Dream! a long way down the rabbit hole from Skinny Puppy. :P - Hieronymous Boob

i really like that music room/studio. makes me want to bolt all my synths to the walls! - Hieronymous Boob

i dunno why they don't offer this on the Arturia site. - Hieronymous Boob

i now have something like 100 pages of blank patch sheets. that should last me til summer, i reckon. :P - Hieronymous Boob

also? NEW CLIPBOARD AND SHARPIE! :D - Hieronymous Boob

"Queens Of The Stone Age's fourth album Lullabies To Paralyze has cemented their position as the biggest and most exciting rock band in the world. Engineer and co-producer Joe Barresi describes the combination of old-school technique and far-out experiment that went into its making." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

lemme see if i can host it somewhere. - Hieronymous Boob

this means it will henceforth be my go-to beat for mayhem and magic. - Hieronymous Boob

Some might remember it (probably not :-) Did it the last time I was unemployed... - Kevin Johnson

FWIW, the bass line was programmatically generated. Also, I seriously hoping I'll gain new employment before I start writing music again. - Kevin Johnson

"To mark the 50th anniversary in 2008 of the creation of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the programme examines the life and legacy of one of the great pioneers of British electronic music - the Workshop's co-founder Daphne Oram. As a child in the 1930s, Oram dreamed of a way to turn drawn shapes into sound, and she dedicated her life to realising that goal. Her Oramics machine anticipated the synthesiser by more than a decade, and with it she produced a number of internationally-performed works for the cinema, concert hall and theatre. Daphne Oram was among the very first composers of electronic music in Britain and her legacy is the dominance of that soundworld in our culture today." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

before Delia Derbyshire there was Daphne Oram, one of the founders of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and inventor of an electro-optical composition and sequencing machine called Oramics. a couple of years back there was a museum exhibit displaying her surviving equipment and explaining her approaches and techniques as well as her achievements. - Hieronymous Boob

apparently she did alot of early radio ads for LEGO building blocks! :D - Hieronymous Boob

"An early BBC experiment in radiophonic sound, predating the establishment of the Radiophonic Workshop, created by Frederick Bradnum and Daphne Oram (pictured) and produced by Donald McWhinnie. TX BBC Third Programme, 07/10/1957." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Complete documentary originally broadcast on Radio 4." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Shannon Novak, a New Zealand-born fine artist, commissioned us to image 12 piano notes as inspiration for a series of 12 musical canvases. We decided to image the notes in video mode because when we observed the 'A1' note we discovered, surprisingly, that the energy envelope changes over time as the string's harmonics mix in the piano's wooden bridge. Instead of the envelope being fairly stable, as we had imagined, the harmonics actually cause the CymaGlyphs to be wonderfully dynamic. Our ears can easily detect the changes in the harmonics and the CymaScope now reveals them--probably a first in acoustic physics. Capturing the dynamics was only possible with HD video but taming the dynamics of the piano's first strike, followed by the short plateau and long decay phase, was tricky. We achieved the result with the help of a professional audio compressor operating in real time." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Shannon was delighted with the results. He commented: "I have always been fascinated with the translation of that which is invisible, into something visible that individuals can relate to, in particular, the representation of sound through colour and geometric form. I saw the use of cymatic technology as one method of such representation and a unique and compelling way of educating individuals about the link between sound, colour, and geometric form"." - Hieronymous Boob

IIRC, wrestling this beast to the ground without the track sheets was onerous. they must've squeezed 48 tracks worth of material onto 24 and half the tracks became something else by the end of the song. - Hieronymous Boob

keep in mind, this was on 1" 4-track @15 IPS. amazing stuff. - Hieronymous Boob

i also have similar analyses for "Come Together" (badass guide vocal that isn't in the final mix!) and "She's Leaving Home". i can post them if anyone is interested. - Hieronymous Boob

apparently he died of rectal cancer during a really awful artillery bombardment of Paris by the Germans in early 1918. what a way to go. - Hieronymous Boob

""I Dream of Wires" (IDOW) is an upcoming, independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer - exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Written and directed by Robert Fantinatto, with Jason Amm (Ghostly International recording artist Solvent) serving as producer and co-writer, IDOW is set to receive it's festival premiere, May 2013." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"So let's make some music! Yes, that's right, RPM 2013 starts TOMORROW! 28 days of putting your music first, since isn't that really the right thing to do?" - Hieronymous Boob

http://rpmchallenge.com/index... - Hieronymous Boob

if only this wasn't true... - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"In this video, creator of the PPG Wave, Wolfgang Palm gives and extended show and tell of the new PPG WaveGenerator App for iPad." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

she'll be 5 next month. - Hieronymous Boob

I'd love to hear it Joe1 - Headless Gnad Kicker

which isn't too bad, actually! - Hieronymous Boob

"Singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, born 3 June 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, died 26 December 1999 in Roswell, Georgia, USA. Co-founder of R&B vocal group The Impressions in the late 1950's. He left The Impressions in 1970 to embark on a solo career and founded his record label Curtom. Mayfield is truly one of the greats, a pioneer in funk and socially aware R&B. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 (Performer). Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000." - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"The Daily Adventures of Mixerman An Audiobook Dramatization" - Hieronymous Boob from Bookmarklet

"Mixerman is a funny dude, but Aardvark is never invited to The Village Recorders again. --Ed Cherney (Bette Midler, John Mayer, The Rolling Stones)" - Hieronymous Boob

moreover, this is a tune i'm about to remake. it's old enough to vote and drink, but i still like it. - Hieronymous Boob

the recording has me on guitar, Mark Cook on bass and synths, Tommy J on vocal and Victor Romero on drums. Mark is now in the band Herd Of Instinct (Firepool Records), Tommy is in a messianic cult and Victor died of cancer in 1995. i'm on FriendFeed. :P - Hieronymous Boob

btw, the tape speed is off a little and the pitch is sharp. - Hieronymous Boob