Blog category: Electronic Music

Eigenharp demo at Musikmesse

There's been a big buzz around the Eigenharp the last year or so. It is a very interesting instrument, which gives you expressive possibilities that you simply don't have in any other instrument. The inventors were long time electronic music fans experimenting with computers to make the music they craved for. They missed the live performance possibilities and decided to develop the best instrument for live electronic music. After 8 years designing, exeperimenting and prototyping the Eigenharp Alpha and Pico was released in late 2009.

The Eigenharp from Eigenlabs now comes in three models, the flagship Alpha (from £3995), the mid-level Tau (from £1899) and the small Pico (£399). At Musikmesse, Eigenlabs demoed the different Eigenharps, and it was interesting to see what can be made with it. But I guess it takes a lot of practice, and patience to be really good at it. Enjoy the demo we filmed at Musikmesse.

 

 

 

Read more about the Eigenharps here!

The Electro Wars - Electronic Music Documentary

Hell yeah I'm looking forward to this electronic music documentary called The Electro Wars. It covers the electronic music scene with lots of interviews with interesting people and offcourse also lots of great electronic music. The theme for the movie is made by swedish electro duo Blende. You find the theme in the 3rd and last trailer. The 3rd trailer is also the best one, atleast I think so. The film is made by Stephen Alex Vasquez, this is what he says about the project:

 

It is unquestionable that the Electro genre has reached a broader American audience in the last two years. I am determined to document the scene and its participants, show the inner workings of the genre and what it will eventually evolve into. The notion to document this genre was conceived in 2008 after reading a blog post with the same title 'Electro Wars' featured on the Hipster Runoff. The post was a sarcastic outlook on electro/house artists in the United States and Europe, and their impact on mainstream music here in the United States. I found a substantial concept within the snarky commentary and decided to assemble these "electro soldiers". It seems that every other day a new remix is popping up on the blogosphere, how does this affect marketing for other independent artists? Do they welcome the remixes or oppose them? Is music overload possible? What will eventually happen when all these budding producers grab a hold of a Pro Tools tutorial and develop their own remixes week in and week out? Will the remix itself become obsolete? Will original tracks have to step up to the forefront rather than recede into the background? Themes of this nature are explored in the film.

 

Check out Blendes theme for The Electro Wars here:

Blende - Iratus

 

1st Electro Wars Trailer

 

 

2nd Electro Wars Trailer

 

 

 

Final Electro Wars Trailer

The Electro Wars Final Trailer from Stephen Alex Vasquez on Vimeo.

 

The Electro Wars site

Electronic music of the USSR

I have been a little bit curious about what happened in the Soviet Union as the rest of the world listened to Kraftwerk, OMD, Depeche Mode etc. I mean, the USSR had a lot of really cool synths, like the Polivoks. But who used them? It would be great to discover that there was a lot of great music being made in the 70's/80's on the other side of the iron curtain, because I'm getting a bit tired of listening to "western" 80's bands.

I will look into what the russians used their analog synthesizers for. I hope it was for good music, and not just synth-orchestrated versions of the national anthem.

Today, I found this article, but it's a bit hard to follow, since I can't read those funny russian letters, which all band names are written in. But it was interesting!

Anyone who has any tips on good soviet bands?

 

The fantastic Formanta Polivoks

Youtube via williamenroh

I Have Synth, Links
Author: 

I Have Synth

Biography: 

Been into synthesizers for 15 years, but never a technical geek. I'm a member of the band Velours Perfect, and have had electronic music as a hobby since I stopped playing with G.I Joe Figures. I buy and sell synths all the time, sometimes manically, and my favourite synth varies, right now it is the Alesis Ion. On this blog you can read about whatever comes out of my mind, mostly synthesizer-related stuff though. Bzzt!

 

I'm also on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and off course Ihavesynth.

 

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