totally wired

Here is a trailer for a forthcoming documentary called 'Totally Wired', which is about Andreas Schneider and his infamous analogue store in Berlin, Germany, called 'Schneider's Buero'.

The doc explores the relationship between the boutique builders and gear- lusty musicians who make Schneider's Buero an interface in its own right.

Doc features some heavy inventors like Wowa Cwejmann, Dieter Doepfer and Ken Maccbeth as well as musicians like Ricardo Villalobos, Daniel Miller and Junior Boys.

More info here: http://totallywired.tumblr.com


Trailer for 'Totally Wired' from niamhahern on Vimeo.

Peter Vogel's Fairlight audio archive


Here >> is a collection of audio material including Fairlight demos, radio interviews and CMI pieces from the eighties. There are even a couple of recordings from the Fairlight CMI's predecessor, the Qasar M8, designed by Tony Furse. The M8 did not use sampling, the sounds were generated by additive Fourier synthesis.

Fairlight video's from the archive of Peter Vogel

New Emulator III forum online

A new EIII user forum has been setup by Vance Newton.
It's located here: EIIIforum.com

Klaus Schulze live on German television in 1977

Klaus Schulze plays "For Barry Graves" on German television for 13 minutes.
Synth spotting: VCS3, Minimoog, Micromoog, Polymoog, Arp Odyssey, Arp 2600, Moog Modular

You'll need the DivX-plugin to watch the movie.
Here >> is a direct link to the video.

Jean-Michel Jarre's rehearsal room

Claude Samard is one of the three musicians accompanying Jean-Michel Jarre during his Oxygene concerts. He made a video of their rehearsal room. Lots of analogue heaven stuff...
Click here >> or on the image to go to the video.



Click here >> for the Jean-Michel Jarre channel on YouTube where you can see some clips from the concerts.

Vince Clark's Fairlight in action

Here >> is a vintage audio recording of Vince Clark demonstrating his Fairlight.
Listening to it now in 2007 this sure sounds cheesy. But back then this was cutting edge technology.

Thanks to Chris Strellis for sharing this recording. The recording was originaly featured on the Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music Magazine in the early 80's. More info can be found here >>

Vince's Fairlight is still for sale at eBay (ending 5 dec 07) here >>

Live video of Air in the KCRW Studios



Click here >> to watch the video.
Click here >> to listen to the audio stream.

New Englang Digital archive

Here's a great site dedicated to the NED Synclavier:
http://ned.synthesizers.fr/



And speaking of ..., I really like this song by Jeans Team featuring a Synclavier in their clip:

New Order - Fine Time (Live with EIII)
In the spirit of posting an Emulator or Fairlight featuring video, here is New Order performing live on Top of The Pops with an Emulator III


Fine Time is a track from their 1989 album Technique. When listening to that album it always strikes me how many Roland D-10/D-20 sounds there are on there.