Paul Turner – Panels V

by | Jul 25, 2013 | Videos

Electronic Music – University of Melbourne. Panels V was composed in 1975 it includes an extract from a parliamentary debate, an advertising jingle and the voice of a disc jockey. This upload is taken from the LP that was produced for the Faculty of Music from...

EMSAR 2013

by | Apr 23, 2013 | Portfolio

Includes an evening concert celebrating the 80th birthday of electronic music pioneer Dr Peter Zinovieff. Date: Saturday 11 May 2013 Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Professor Monty Adkins (University of Huddersfield), Dr Till Bovermann (Media Lab Helsinki),...

Edward Williams EMS VCS3

by | Jan 21, 2013 | Portfolio

Life on Earth : Music from the 1979 BBC TV series The pieces were crafted scene-by-scene to synchronise with and complement the imagery on screen. The sounds were processed through an early British synthesiser, the EMS VCS 3, to create an evocative sound which...

slew/unslew filter mod.

by | Dec 19, 2012 | Modifications

When high frequency controlled voltages are applied to the unmodified Synthi filter they are low-pass filtered by the C31 capacitor. This means that the filter will not respond to high frequency CVs, and respond slowly to rapid changes in incoming CVs. The switch...

Oboe (BoS) p 8

by | Dec 8, 2012 | Portfolio

From the book of sounds by David Steven. Click on pic to enlarge! a. Follow normal two-osc. tuning procedure. Osc. 1 is an octave above osc. 2. b. Start with output channel 2 level set at 0 (output channel 2 not monitored). c. Play middle C and advance output Channel...

Ludwig Rehberg EMS (Interview)

by | Sep 24, 2012 | Portfolio

Er ist der Grandseigneur der deutschen Synthesizer: Ludwig Rehberg programmierte Klänge für Pink Floyd, kümmerte sich um das Sounddesign vom Film „Das Boot“, ist eng mit Martin Gore befreundet und beliefert heute noch Jean-Michel Jarre mit seinen Instrumenten. Er ist...

Peter Beyls 1974

by | Mar 22, 2012 | Videos

In 1974 Belgian composer Peter Beyls was not only a technician at the STEIM-studio in Amsterdam but also a teacher at the Vrije Akademie Psychopolis at Den Haag. Hero Wouters was a movie-making “paticipant” (a sixties-word for student) at the Academy,...

Dr Zinovieff’s original Synthi A (on VEMIA)

by | Nov 1, 2011 | Portfolio

A great chance to own a piece of history, and a wonderful example of a classic instrument. This is Dr Peter Zinovieff’s own Synthi A, serial number 4016, which has been beautifully restored by Robin Wood at EMS in the last two months and is in perfect working...