Some nice archive footage seen here, as well as gloriously absurd musique concrete local radio jingles around the 4 minute mark. I should look these up!
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Me demostrating the Prodigy used a Korg DS-8
Quick video on me comparing the synth stab on The Prodigy's 'No Good (Start the Dance)' and patch 68 on the Korg DS-8. I'm pretty sure that's the sound they used - perhaps a couple of minor parameter tweaks (there are two 'timbral' slders on the front panel that could well have been altered).
See what you think:
If it's not the DS-8 (and I think it is), then the quality of the sound suggests that it could be another FM synth, like DX7, etc.
Synth fact of the week: Koichi Kawai
Koichi Kawai was a neighbour of Torakusu Yamaha and was his apprentice in early 20th C. He founded the Kawai Musical Instrument Research Laboratory in 1927. I still have my Kawai K4 - still a good synth!
Koichi Kawai (1886-1955)
Photosound experiment
Daphe Oram was a 20th century composer who experimented with her own method of sound synthesis back in the 1950s using images to generate tones. Lots of interesting facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oramics
I did a similar sort of experiment with a Bridget Riley picture - the x-axis is time, the y-axis is frequency. I think the resulting sound compliments the painting quite well actually!
Let me know if you agree...
Roland's missing bassline synth...
Ever noticed the lack of a '404' Roland synth or drum machine? There's an SH-101, MC-202, TB-303, MC-505, TR-606, TR-707, TR-808, TR-909, but no TR- / MC-404. Something for the conspiracy theorists I think...
