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Frank Garvey's OmniCircus from Vincent Tremblay on Vimeo.

chime has come today

Μουσική στο στόμα

Anastasis Teil 2 von Anestis Logothetis - Fernsehaufführung 1971 mit Claudia Brodzinska-Behrend und Siegfried Behrend.

forgot about ra

should always be mentioned in conversations about the synthesiser



feel like he is Rev's lost brother, especially  here



Disco 3000 is still my favorite, taped off Stubbsy back in the day



do you know, I've seen Sun Ra and the Arkestra twice?



once in  late 1985 at the Fridge, Brixton...  just amazing... the full procession of the band through the audience in all their finery

and then, once again, in 1989  at the Knitting Factory - not quite as amazing, but still a grand sight and sound



and then - pinch myself in disbelief at the thought - around about that time I actually had an audience with the great man

it is really rather unbelievable to contemplate - i mean, it's a bit like having interviewed Miles Davis or Coltrane, or - in non-jazz terms -  Stravinsky or Stockhausen  -  these would be equivalent figures in terms of 20th Century modernist out-there-ness....

but there I sat for a couple of hours, in a New York hotel, listening and taping, and I do not believe getting in so much as a word edge-wise

and - what's truly absurd - then having to edit it down to be a third-of-a-page featurette for a section of Melody Maker called Sidelines generally dedicated to up-and-coming bands.

an outrage!

(although in mitigation, I'm not sure NME or Sounds or Select would have given him any space at all by that point - MM  was pretty much alone in holding fast to the cover-everything spirit of the golden-era music press)

(still, in the early 70s, Melody Maker would have - and in fact did - give Sun Ra a double-page spread)

Polskie analogowe epiki elektroniczne

1976







hard to work out what he's launching off from - Tonto's Expanding? Zawinul?





Or Time's Encomium?







that one is a tiny bit Magma


the whole thing in one bloc 

Czeslaw Niemen had major prog form 

so the synth excursion seems to be a detour from the main proggy path

have yourself a buchla buchla christmas

"San Francisco Bay Area: 1969  - I'd been playing Buchla music in various galleries for openings, as well as MOMA openings. They liked them enough, since the music gave a good time, was infectious and totally new to people. So MOMA asked me to provide music for their annual Christmas party for Children on a Saturday morning. 
So I took off one evening for Mills College where the Buchla now was kept to take up my usual time time slot of 8pm. At the time use of the Tape/Buchla room was very loose; I could stay as long as I liked after the building closed at 10; sometimes I would be there almost till dawn. There were times, however, when I'd go back home at midnight dejected at having found nothing exciting. 

This night I was already across the Bay Bridge when I realized I hadn't brought any Christmas music, no carols! I was going to have to remember what I could. Turned out I knew enough of them to play with. 
The Buchla doesn't' have a keyboard like a piano (with twelve notes to the octave), just slits in a metal plate with two tuning knobs to give each slit a pitch or a pair of pitches. I didn't have to reconstruct all twelve notes of a scale, just the notes needed in the song. Tuning what few notes I needed for each tone was fairly easy. But one carol sounded like church bells because it one of the notes sounded out of tune as some church bells because their tuning doesn't fit with a tempered tuning so goes out of tune with the other notes. At first I thought this a problem, but since it did resemble church bells it decided it added to the charm. Other sounds reminded me of lighter caroling bells as I imagined in old Germany or the Alps, at least, as I remembered hearing them. 

The most pleasure came when I incorporated the sequencing module that gave a tune rhythm that it never had nor would have, since it came from a synthesizer with a different kind of creativity that a human wouldn't have. The unusual rhythm added a kick to the carol.

I didn't have enough carols to make a long enough session so I added here and there, especially at the end, some synthesizer music that I'd previously made on the Buchla that sounded shimmering and might evoke a starry sleigh filled night" 

- Warner Jepson. 

digital kitsch (Hubert & Harald)

actually pretty wacky stuff, missing link between Art of Noise and Ferraro's Far Side Virtual

a Fairlight fantasia



the full album




this one really is kitschtastic though





ooh they had prior prog form (bit like Vangelis with Aphrodite's Child maybe)











from Austria, Hubert and Harald also recorded -  later on -  as Blue Chip Orchestra



their kitschitude recognised no borders




Harald still going,  quite recently, at least

Excentrique

Stone'enge

darksynth

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lighter