SOUNDTRACK FOR THE MOVIE

Indeed we're currently working on the Ctrl-Alt-Esc- From Rotterdam, the WORM feature film, the theme song. Hajo is demonstrating his one of many skills: typewriting a melody line in logic pro.

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FIELDRECORDING WORKSHOP UPDATE

OUR THREE PART WORKSHOP HAS ENDED AND WAS OVERALL CONCEIVED AS A GOOD AND PRODUCTIF COLLAB BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS AND ORGANISERS, WITH THANKS TO JUSTIN AND DEREK. LATER WE WILL COMPILE THE AUDIOMATERIAL MADE BY THE PARTICIPANTS INTO AN HOUR RADIOWORM SPECIAL.

IN THE CLIPS BELOW WE'RE LISTENING TO THE FINISHED PIECES, IN THE STUDIO AND IN THE VENUE FOR AN CONCENTRATED AUDIENCE.

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future,present and past of dubstep but better and stand alone

and so economically nicer too. ...

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Yan Jun_Wu Na_FM3 Zhang and XiaoH Recording

Interesting quartet from china, having a recording session at the studio. They presented themselves for a full house at sunday with a great show. Upcoming RadioWORM is about Contemporary Music in China (part two) Thanks to Yan Yun and FM3 Zhang.

Beiijing4

Derek Holzer At The Serge

Derek had an intensive two weeks at the WORM labs: ardour manual sprint and workshop at the MODDR lab, in between a lecture on field recording and he spent a week at our sound lab, studying the Serge. Here's a demo track and a short movie.

mathesis(early_edit).mp3

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Fieldrecording Workshop Underway

The Fieldrecording Workshop started last week with an inspiring lecture from Derek Holzer, taking us from birdview to fly perspectif into the many facets and points of view of fieldrecording.

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STU in studio

STU was for ever (2 days) tuning the arp 2500 to his liking, the only way to tame the beast...
Here's a demotrack!

STUwormdemo.mp3

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WORM STUDIO FIELDRECORDING STARTING SOON

Invitation;
Join our field-recording workshop about the practical and artistic ways of field recordings and how to apply them into a soundwork.
With Derek Holzer and Justin Bennet and the WORMstudio team

 The starting point is to create a field recording soundpiece¹.

MIDI IMPLEMENT PART TWO

With the arrival of two HKU sound design students, robin and nick, who will do an 10 week internship at the WORMstudio, the midi implementation takes a higher gear. Watch the coming weeks the progression we make, starting with ableton live and max for live patches, using two kentons to connect to the arp, the korg, the putney. We promise christmas tunes, cheeky arrangements and brandnew ringtones.

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Rurality

Plurality more likely, wherever they go the camera follows, but here they are from argentina, Los Siquicos Literalenos: jamming in the studio as if at home.

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LosSiquicosLiteralenos

Peter Wiessenthaner

We invited Peter Wiesenthaner to work a few days in the Studio and make a bit of sound design for a Radioplay project that is probably gonna be finished & broadcasted next january. After producing some very beautiful sounds and talking about wintersport Peter found time to relax and befriend the two WORM-studio slaves, Henk & Lukas. here they are, looking very relaxed. (again). Some sound will be posted later.

Into The Cool season (again)

September 14 till 20: Jesse O (Sullivan) in the studio. Taking half our gear for a ride. Here 's a fresh tune he's working on with the audio solutions concussor as the central piece. Three movies here: "at least the midi works"; "fresh tune" and "till Live crashes"
Jesse's Performing at the Incubate Fest in Tilburg later this week.

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JesseOattheStudio

JesseOattheStudio

Phoebe Jeebe & Jonathan Bailey Cooke in Studio

Jonathan & Phoebe are working on a radioplay for WORM. They just started this morning so the only thing we have from them so far is this image where they are profoundly staring at the mixing desk.

Tom Hall in Studio

Tom Hall was working in the WORM studio last week. here's one of the pieces he made for WORM. More about Tom HERE.

tom hall 2.mp3


We made a little video of Tom at work in the studio but it mysteriously dissappeared from our HD. So we stole a picture of his website from a series of photo's called 'likeminds'. We're not sure it's Tom posing here but it really looks like him.

Michael Morley, Sarah Stephenson & Nina Canal

(photo by R.E. Greentree)

In the second week of august Michael Morley (the Dead C), Sarah Stephenson & Nina Canal (ex-UT) used the WORM studio to work on several things, one being a conceptual Cornelius Cardew Piece 'The Tiger's Mind' and they also got to record a lot of other new material.
'The Tiger's Mind' was originally played with a fourth member, Nadia Lichtig, in Paris for a Cornelius Cardew festival

It's an interesting piece, so i asked them for some more information about it.

Christoph Kurzmann im WORMstudio

Christoph Kurzmann ('citizen of the world' -living in Berlin, Vienna & Buenos Aires, musician, organiser, founder of the charhizma label) visited the WORM studio in the first week of august to work on some new stuff and also to make preparations for a by WORM curated radioplay about the Financial Crisis he is gonna finish in Argentina next month. And here he is, relaxed behind the mixing desk, the Enigmatic & Prolific Mister K.!


Kurzmann Boersenkrach.mp3

return of the mix sequencer model 1050

It was out of order for a long time but now look at this little work of artistry done by james. replacing all the original ivory white stylish seventies plastic buttons with these no nonsense black leds, glued mind you, so we don't have to pick them up from all over the floor ever...

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Vince the Prince at the studio

This weeks guest is Vincent Koreman, aka, Vince the Prince aka Sonido Del Principe. His main objective is to harvest sounds from the Arp 2500 and the EMS and use them for his cumbia project. However! whats he saying at end of the clip, its not dupstep is it?

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GOto80

Anders is working on some of his material this week in our studio, aiming to incorporate the ARP 2500 in his music, trying to midisync the arp with the commodore, adding some vocal tracks.

We love the big screen! And the scrolling numbers on it, its archaic in its own way, matching well with the synths.

Goto80

AND, after working very hard at our studio in semi tropical temperatures this week, here's some pre-tracks, in rough unedited form, but good for tasters.

Goto8021.mp3

Goto8025.mp3

History-lessons

Meet James Rubery, one of the architects of the cem studio, doing a investigative maintenance round of the studio. Here he is counting to 35, i think... that is, things to fix on the mixing desk, pan pods mostly...

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Livesession for Placard Headphone Festival

Friday Afternoon 12-06-09: Morfrom meets StaticTics. Livecast and studiosession.

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Working on the Serge

Floris van Hoof is a regular at unregular intervals here at the studio, he is a typical DIY person, building his own sound devices, movie-making and easily at home with complex but logical patches such as this one on the Serge.

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Stuff Recorded here

As promised, in the snail-mail arrived the new album by Andrew Tuttle, aka Anonymeye, titled "the disambiguation of Anonymeye" of wich several tracks were recorded in our studio last year (2008). more info on this www.anonymeye.com

here's a few tracks

Anonymeye_memorandum2.mp3

Anonymeye_diensdag.mp3

Anonymeye_funny!....not funny.mp3

Build Your Own

Derek Holzer was this week artist in residence at the WORM ModdrLab____, with a Neanderthal Electronincs Workshop of building your own synth he showed that with little means you can create an exciting self composed basic synthesizer. He also spent 2 long days at the Studio. On the clip below he is filming a synth scematic while Mr Jean is performing his self built synth.

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midi and analogue synths

Exciting times at the studio as the midi to cv implementation is taking shape. At the moment there's a set up for the EMS (putney) and MS 20 (korg). Now you can sit and compose on your pc music for these synths just as you would for your soft synths, but the studio machines sound brutal.

below is an little example of a demo setup. the putney has a relative range of 3 three octaves, depending on where you start, the MS 20 is another case to study.

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Never a dull moment

These are the contestants for our bi-annual "ARP 2500 fast patching competition". receiving their first lecture and demo on analoge synthesis by Dr Simonis and Herr B.
Well not really, but a growing number of schools send their students over to visit our studios, where they do get a short introduction into music in general, old machines and weird sounds in particular. Nothing wrong with that.

new toys

Just in, donations, a Roland Bit One (in need of service) and a Yamaha dx 7.
Anyone a Mellotron to spare perhaps...

meanwhile at the studio

AKI ONDA & ALAN LICHT



Aki and Alan were here 10 & 11 may and in two days recorded possibly their new album. more news about that follows.



Coming monday we plan to install the kenton midi to cv converter, a new and exciting feature for the studio with wich the studio as a whole but also its seperate components are easily accesible thru midi and thus integrated into YOUR setup. more news about that next week.










Andrew Tuttle recorded his new album, The Disambiguation of Anonymeye, here in our studio last year. its in the post so we'll put up some tracks here when it arrives.

soopa_onemannation at the knobs

soopa_onemannation

Mondaymorning...Its their first day of a week long stay at the studio, and they intend to use as many of the machines as possible, into a electro-gamelan piece they intend to make.
so first lessons on the arp 2500, how to get a controlled note out of it.
anyhow, 5 hours later, they already got the concussor going, filter external sounds thru the arp while sequencing, had a weary go at the serge, decided that the putney was out of control, and the arp 2600 not very reliable either.

Anyway, here's a track they made that week and later mixed at home. Details on what we hear will follow.

Marc writes: "We used gamelan samples from a free library, sequenced them in Ableton Live, then set it out into the Serge and Arp 2500. The Arp was being modulated with lfo's and envelops from the Serge as well as the other sequencer on top of the rack."


Soopa_OneManNation_Spectral_Magnetic_Gongs.mp3






yes folks, the kenton midi to cv converter is here and hopefully installed next month, so you can all come and get your miditools out and bonk away with the whole analogue caboodle behind it....

NEXT LIFE

NEXT LIFE flew in especially to see the zeni geva gig, offered to be the support act and work 2 days in the studio, primarily mixing out some of their new tracks thru our mixingdesk because of its good sound, so they said, and of they went again, promising to be back for more later this year. Intens.

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NEXTLIFE2

Scarlatti Goes Electro

We had to wait a few centuries, but here he is, Scarlatti Goes Electro at last at the WORM studio, preparing a barockandroll track with the ARP 2600. Of course with his favorite piano, or clavecimbel as some call it. More info on them at www.wormweb.nl

Scarlatti Goes Electro

Gangpol (fr) Ohne Mit in the STUDIO

Busy times in the wormstudio coming months. This week: Sylvain from Gangpol und Mit working on some new tracks in which he likes to incorporate the ARP 2500, 2600 en putney sounds.

Gangpol (fr) Ohne Mit in the STUDIO

Gangpol (fr) Ohne Mit in the STUDIO2

eats tapes was here (2008)

Exactly a year ago the versatile duo Eats Tapes visited WORM, worked at the studio and performed a techno-liveset on the serge.

listen to an extract of that piece :

EatsTapesLiveattheSERGE22-05-09

EATS TAPES WAS HERE....................

EATS TAPES !!

ruis!

excerpt (no audio) of movie/images by els van riel
(for the stefaan quix & els van riel project) some more info here.

excerpt (no audio)

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