2600s!

speaking of cable spaghettie, I hadmy semi modualrs plating themselves without sequencers at the end of the jam I was at last night. It was nuts. I got it sounding lie a malfunctioning Dalek... but everything was clocked in time to the drum groove

Now that I'd like to hear!

we recorded the whole multihour jam, it had some good moments but was mostly junk until the end when we just got weird and elt the amchines do their thing while we talked aout other stuff for a good 30 minutes

Okay, Moogbadger, perhaps I was being a bit philistine towards Madame Radigue. Having given her a bit of a listen I've actually come to quite like it. Nice to have on while I'm reading, struggling to sleep or just zoning out!

I take back what I was saying before; I must have been in a particularly sour mood! :-)

Oh it's ok, I haven't been sat here sulking iike a moody teenager (the girlfriend came to visit, which is why I've been quiet, as she takes over my entire life when she's here!).

Actually, it's quite interesting to see what people make of academic electronic music in general? I studied all this stuff about six years ago when I did my Masters in music at Huddersfield University, and I must admit that academics seem to go wild for pieces where not very much happens (the ultimate being John Cage's 4:33, where literally nothing happens, of course). I thought Eliane's stuff was the best of a bad bunch, if you know what I mean? This has been my experience of academia in general - that academics seem to be impressed by stuff that anyone (else) who's really into gear or synths would immediately think - 'but that's just one note, held down on a whatever, for six minutes!'. It's like the academics are actually behind what's going on in the real world, when surely it should be the other way around? I found parts of my lectures really, really frustrating. For example, we did a whole term on 'noise', and somehow they failed to mention stuff like Sunn ((0)). It's like they've got a blind spot when it comes to anything that doesn't fall into their little hermetic world.

I can't think of many people who've used the ARP 2500 in a strictly pop music context, though? They're so large and rare that I think a lot of them got installed in universities or academies, and so have never had their full potental explored in terms of making actual tunes or pieces of music where there's chord sequences or something more accessible. I did know about Close Encounters...that was one of my first exposures to synths, along with Jarre, the Human League, Dr Who and so on...

Yup, I have 4:33 listed as one of my Desert Island Discs for when I need a bit of peace and quiet.

I'm tickled that there's a collection of 4:33 covers and remixes - Cage Against The Machine

It's one of the few pieces of music I know all the words to

Oh it's ok, I haven't been sat here sulking iike a moody teenager (the girlfriend came to visit, which is why I've been quiet, as she takes over my entire life when she's here!). . It's like they've got a blind spot when it comes to anything that doesn't fall into their little hermetic world.

I come from a family of classical/jazz musicians, the most educated one is pretty open-minded, but ym dad, for isntance, who shared a small manhattan apartment with a bunch of juliard students, absorbed a lot fo snobbery from those undergrad music majors and often bandies about the term 'real music'. Don't get me started. There's even a world within a world where the 20th century harmony/12 tone types look down their noses at the minimalist movement. That would be my dad. Someone like Cage is not 'real music' whereas the right jazz? That is, but only if the composer went to school like Miles. I feel like some unreal music could have similar content and that these types refuse to hear because the composer is not from their hermetically sealed world.

look what I saw when I got up.... fake spring reverb as expected, but still. I have spring reverbs I can patch in. I wish they had done some tie fighter noises to demonstrate the reverb instead of actual music. Sound effects is where you want the real springiness. Meh. Wonder what the MSRP will be for preorder...

https://youtu.be/S8cpfNBnO-A

HUZZAH!

https://www.synthanatomy.com/2020/01/korg-arp-2600-mini-photos-from-guitar-center-show-a-smaller-version-leak.html

Real or a Photoshop job?

I saw that in january, something feels wrong about it.... but I have no doubt korg will make SOMEthing 2600ish and budget friendly.... but I doubt it'll be cheaper than the behringer new.

oh man, I just bought another odyssey from a dude who was hard up. Full size keyboard with sequencer (because who has enough SQ1s?), hard case, mk2 cosmetics... I'm so stoked. I didn't like the slim key odyssey so i traded for module and an SQ1 years ago, but this one? I'm a play the hell outts this board.