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.

Midi1

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.

NEXTLIFE1

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)

NEW SHIT ON THE BLOG

OSR: Optical Sound Ringtones (autotrillfunction included) (FilmLoops Made in the WORM FilmWerkplaats 03-03-09): Embarrass all your friends, loved ones and of course yourself, anywhere, anytime with these ringtones. come on, its time to dehyve anyway! Let them know you're serious...

hot tip (how-to-8-ways-to-get-ringtones-onto-your-iphone)


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stefaan quix & els van riel

last week in the studio:
stefaan quix and els van riel,
working on a sound & image
project, resulting in a 81
minutes hd movie, next year.



they used their studio time to
study possibilities of multiplying
pre-recorded alt violin sounds
and combining it with experimental
tv-noise images of els van riel.


listen to an excerpt: de audiofile heet "do undo deel 13", auteurs zijn Julia Eckhardt, Ludo Engels en Stefaan Quix.

do_undo_pt_13

lu & xen bach

Dr. L. Simonis and His Majesty Jieem X, posing for their new album at the WORM studio: 'a guide to the music of the 21th century'. name of the band: perfect vacuum. some of the outstanding synthesizer arrangements on this neo-folk progrock record were recorded in the worm studio.

studio productions

WORMstudio creates Radio Programmes; Radio Documentaries; RadioPlays ( a series titled Horspil ); RadioWORM - a monthly audio magazine ( RadioWORM can be found on www.wormstation.nl )

Several productions are in co-production with
VPRO / Radio 6 / Cafe Sonore ( www.vpro.nl/cafesonore )


Below a list of our recent productions:


WORM T Schippers : 4 hours of spectaculair nonsense - Produced, edited, compiled by Hajo Doorn and Henk Bakker :
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Magnetband Untergrund: Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand: Part One of a Radiodocumentary on DDR musicscenes of the late 70's and early 80's: 3 hours of great music, interviews and observations. Produced, edited, compiled by Hajo Doorn and Henk Bakker:
CLICK!

DDR Revisited : Part 2 of a Radiodocumentary on DDR
Tape Music : CLICK!
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Motors of Invention : A Radioshow on the self named festival at WORM in 2007 dealing with selfmade machines and ... music : CLICK!


The Horspil Series:


Blatnova : Dr Naut- een audiostrip : CLICK!
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Anne Laberge : Flock : CLICK!
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Christopher Williams : The Hispaniola: CLICK!
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Vernon&Burns : The Eldritch Transmissions - A Study in Radiophrenia : CLICK!
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Didi de Paris/Lukas Simonis : Wa Da De Minse Klappe Gelak As d'Onne Basse : CLICK!
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Holy Mountain : Bruiloftslied : CLICK!
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Jeroen Visser : Alles met mate, en zelfs dat : CLICK!
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Robert van Heumen : No Man's Land : CLICK!
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Coolhaven : De triple hond qua vectoren gebruik : CLICK!
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Henk Bakker (Aka the Melkertman) : Ghosts : CLICK!

studio works

Here on display are some pieces, excerpts, studies and sound explorations, done by various studio guests over the past 2 years:

Captain Ahab did a ARP 2500 improv, in the week of his stay here before his concert on tuesday 25th of march 2008 (historical allready: Di 25 Mrt 2008 'de reünie' with: captain ahab (us) + toecutter (au) + realicide (us) + eustachian.

CaptAhabAtTheArp
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Gelbart was here 1st week of may, in a increadible display of productiveness, produced several complete pieces as well as numerous studies, on ARP and Putney. Check em.

Gelbart - bad morning chicken
Gelbart ms20 improv
Gelbart unnumbered junk - CEM version
Gelbart_ ms20 improv number2
Gelbart_4
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Max Tundra worked in the studio in june 2007 and produced this track for RadioWORM.

MaxTundra_The Gummiknuppel
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Newk made a patch on his Korg ms20, looped it through the lxp1.

newk - ms20 through lxp1 (be patient. has slow fade-in)
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Stephen O Mally worked a week in September 2008, working on a commisioned piece for a dance performance. he did various sound studies on the ARP, and brought in a keyboardplayer to play a midiscore while Stephen manipulated the ARP. This is one of the versions they took.

StephenOMally_ARP RAGA_281008



previously recorded in the wormstudio..........


"when vtb played at worm in december 2007 we were supposed to do a recording session that was to be used by worm for their online radio show or something on the worm web. it was in our contract that we do a show and recording session.when we arrived at worm for the studio recording there was no sound
engineer. a couple of hours later someone did come to record us but it was very ad hoc and we didn't record too much.anyway, clarence took the recordings away and prepared some tracks from it. then he sent the tracks to the rest of the band and in typical volcano the bear style we forgot about them until now. so after that explanation vtb have 3 tracks recorded at worm. total time is about 14 minutes.would you like us to send them to you? also, we may want to use them ourselves at some point in the near future - is this ok with worm?ok, i hope all this makes sense to you and we look forward to your response.cheersaaron"

Thanks to Aaron Moore for sending these tracks.
Info: www.brainwashed.com/vtb


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