Happy New Year - New Kind of Vid for this New Year

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Happy Summer Time with this Second Vid' (First for the New Year). Love Time for The Animals Now.

Meet Eugene, performing his original composition, "Binary".

Hataken as kind as Htkn plays an improvisational music .
Htkn is used to be known as an electronica / ambient music creater in Tokyo underground .
He released albums solo, joined some bands and doing many   more...gigs with analogue synthsizers !
from Japan !  less

http://www.guitargnosis.comDo you have fear that you're advancing fast enough? Worried that you won't make it where you're going with guitar or any other instrument? You're not alone.

Music, Design and Animation by Sven Iglesias.

You might need to be intoxicated to tolerate this video. I'm running a 2 second delay on both the guitar & synth and for some odd reason, the repeated guitar signal is louder than the original.

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He rocks!

100% analogue synthesizer pure sounds by improvisation solo performance .no sampler , no backing track , no PC , no MIDI note data ... CV,GATE,TRIGGER only .Mix Master Morris played DJ set as main act   more...at the party !  less

This was the best thing I bought last year

http://www.synthgnosis.comThis is the 2nd half of the first tutorial in the synthesizer programming series.There is a sample sine wave and a square wave to go along with this lesson available on the   more...site. It comes directly from my synthesizer and it's for loading into your audio editor of choice. Once downloaded and inserted into your audio editor of choice, stretch the track view and look at the drawn waveform. Does it look familiar? It should!Synthesizer programming is something that's often strayed away from due to all of those big, fancy words. Sometimes, something like a Low Frequency Oscillator seems so incredibly frightening that we don't even attempt to try and learn synthesizer programming. I want to tell you that it's MUCH more easy than you've ever imagined, and I'm here to show you how and why.Synth programming is very simple. It basically starts with a wave, or a shape. We call them waveforms. The most common types of these shapes, waves, or 'waveforms' are below:(in no particular order)Sine Triangle Square Pulse Sawtooth (Saw) NoiseThere are many more shapes, but we'll save that for another time. We have what we call an oscillator, and this oscillator generates one of the aforementioned waveforms. It then goes into what's called a filter, which is where the basic subtractive synthesis takes place. Subtractive synthesis is the most common type of synthesis. Basically, you 'take out' (subtract) what you don't want from the original waveform and it produces the desired timbre. It is then run into the amplifier which is simply volume.Oscillator - Filter - AmplifierThis is the order in which synthesis takes place. Congrats. You now know more than most about synth programming just from these little tidbits of information.  less

http://www.synthgnosis.comThere is a sample sine wave and a square wave to go along with this lesson available on the site. It comes directly from my synthesizer and it's for loading into your audio   more...editor of choice. Once downloaded and inserted into your audio editor of choice, stretch the track view and look at the drawn waveform. Does it look familiar? It should!Synthesizer programming is something that's often strayed away from due to all of those big, fancy words. Sometimes, something like a Low Frequency Oscillator seems so incredibly frightening that we don't even attempt to try and learn synthesizer programming. I want to tell you that it's MUCH more easy than you've ever imagined, and I'm here to show you how and why.Synth programming is very simple. It basically starts with a wave, or a shape. We call them waveforms. The most common types of these shapes, waves, or 'waveforms' are below:(in no particular order)Sine Triangle Square Pulse Sawtooth (Saw) NoiseThere are many more shapes, but we'll save that for another time. We have what we call an oscillator, and this oscillator generates one of the aforementioned waveforms. It then goes into what's called a filter, which is where the basic subtractive synthesis takes place. Subtractive synthesis is the most common type of synthesis. Basically, you 'take out' (subtract) what you don't want from the original waveform and it produces the desired timbre. It is then run into the amplifier which is simply volume.Oscillator - Filter - AmplifierThis is the order in which synthesis takes place. Congrats. You now know more than most about synth programming just from these little tidbits of information.  less

http://www.synthgnosis.comMidi file and sheet music (fingerings included) available on the site.I believe that the best way to get over those little hurdles in music is to attack them directly. For   more...as long as I remember, I've created my own exercises to help myself progress in what I was weak in. This short lesson will give you some ideas for creating your own exercises targeted at your weakness, as well as give you an exercise of my own to try out.Finger and hand independence is what the great majority of new synthesizer and piano players have the most difficulty with, especially HAND independence. I consider hand independence more of a 'muscle' kind of a thing, and hand independence more of a 'mind' kind of a thing. Finger independence is mental of course, but I find it's much easier to master than hand independence, which takes a lot more mental power.  less

The Television image 1 by synthesizer J.R Breigovel 1 by Paul Miller Stevens Institute of Technology htttp://www.stevens.edu/engineering/art

This is Invention #4 in D Minor by J.S. Bach. R... (more)
Added: December 23, 2007
This is Invention #4 in D Minor by J.S. Bach. Ralph Press, President of The Digital Entertainment Network plays it on   more...a Yamaha DGX-500 Digital Piano set to Synthesizer Saw Lead.  less

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
One of the loudest pieces of music ever written, and, in parts, one of the quietest, The Planets is a very popular choice with concert-goers. Written around 1915 by the   more...English composer, Gustav Holst, it includes a piece of music for each of the seven planets that were known at the time, excluding the Earth itself.

Holst provides astrological titles for the planets, loosely based on the characters of the Roman gods after which the planets were named. The music is intended to be descriptive of the 'moods' of each of the planets, as perceived in their mythology. The whole suite is scored for very large orchestra, with an off-stage chorus of women joining in for the last piece. A full performance lasts about 50 minutes.

Holst's music must be considered the forerunner of the 'Hollywood Space Movie' style of composing. In particular, John Williams' Star Wars music is heavily indebted to both 'Mars' and 'Uranus'.
This piece represents Jupiter, the ruler of the gods, both in his regal and jovial aspects. A wild dance in 3/4 time is the height of the joviality while the more solemn character is depicted by a regal, hymn-like tune, which in fact was subsequently used as the melody for a hymn, 'I Vow to Thee My Country'.  less

Laptop speakers or thin-sounding monitor speakers aren't going to do it for this tune. Without speakers which will supply some thundah, you're missing the whole bottom half of this song.

Welcome to the   more...Internets.
It's fantastic
Wear your thickest skin

A Mixolydian
E Mixolydian
D Phrygian

This song is on the myspace player at: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ontrashakotra">http://www.myspace.com/ontrashakotra</a> The mp3 should be downloadable there.

The bass guitar has an Aguilar OBP-1 preamp, and it's also going through a Sansamp RBI.
Drums are the Boss DR-880
Lead synth is Roland SH-32
Clavinet VSTi is Big Tick Ticky Clav <a href="http://bigtick.pastnotecut.org">http://bigtick.pastnotecut.org</a>
Strings VSTi is StringSynth <a href="http://www.algomusic.net">http://www.algomusic.net</a>
Midi and instruments all recorded in Reaper <a href="http://www.cockos.com/reaper">http://www.cockos.com/reaper</a>

song and video by me, John David Briley  less

New York-based rock band Jupiter One’s debut single “Countdown” (as featured in Madden 08) summarizes the band’s ability to transcend genre boundaries. The self titled debut album, personally sequenced   more...by Cordless founder and music legend Jac Holzman, will be released digitally on August 7. The video co-directed by lead singer K Ishibashi integrates stop motion video and the scenic landscape of New York City. Don’t get left behind – pre-order the album here --http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=261096463&s=143441.  less

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