closing time at the voc

we're in the final stages of moving our venue. worm is to move to the centre of town, and the analogue studio is going to go there too of course. we think to be operational there in the beginning of september....

Tojiko Noriko

Last week we welcomed Noriko in our studio where she dug in for a full week experimenting with a lot of the synths, recording tons as she plans to make a new album.

check below for an impression of sounds taken halfway the week.

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A Modular Synth Suitcase 2

Floris van Hoof, a regular guest at our fascilities, and a wizzard at the serge, came by and showed us his modular suitcase. This ought to be a bigger trend!

Distant Drummers in the Studio

The past week the studio was packed with people and gear: Dutch group Distant Drummers rehearsed and recorded a whole week long. Some tracks will be on display here soon. Have a look at the preview movie.

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14-05-11 De Waard/Jaspers Workshop

 'if you don't have a good idea, you will never create a good composition', 'do more with less' and 'economy rules

Frans de Waard en Wouter Jaspers gave a workshop with these thoughts in mind. Do less with more was a conceptual workshop and covered important issues such as do you work with a score, or improvise, wich choises do you make and why.

Tjeerd Schills in the Studio

Coming weeks, HKU student Tjeerd, will be working on a soundpiece, using the midi to cv kenton setup, and the arp 2500,  designed by his collegues from the HKU, Robin&Nick. A good testcase for the manual they made, and the Ableton Live Presets.

Jim Xentos Residency

this week- 29-3/2-4 Jim Xentos was in the studio, working on a radioplay, later to be released here. Jim came, saw and put us all to work!

A Modular Synth Suitecase

This synth was made by greg zifcak (http://www.gzifcak.net/synth/synth.html)
Greg is on our wishlist for a studioresidency and workshop for a while now. we keep at it.


Right Side:

PAiA 9700 MIDI-to-CV Converter
PAiA 9710 Triple VCA w/ Looping ADSR
PAiA 9720 Dual VCO w/ Looping AD/R (2)
PAiA 9730 Dual VCF w/ Looping AD/R
Unity Gain 4 Channel Mixer w/ Inverted Output (3)
Output Interface

Left Side:

10 Step Sequencer w/ CV, Gate (legato), Gate (staccato), and Individual Step Outputs
Clock Divide by 2 - 10 (2)
Oscillator w/ Square, Triangle, and Auxiliary Divide by 3, 4, or 6 Outputs
Hex Squarewave Noise Source
Craig Anderton Super Tone Control Multimode Filter
4-Quadrant Multiplier (4)
Gain x2 Amplifier (4)
SSM2040 VC Lowpass/Allpass Filter (2)
Thomas Henry 8038 Audio Generator Linear VCO
AD/R Envelope Generator (2)
Buchla 230 Envelope Follower
Inverting Attenuator with Mix outputs (5)
Yusynth-based Sample/Hold
Comparator
N/AND Gate
Voltage Source
Modified Realistic Reverb Analog Delay w/ Voltage Controlled Delay Time

Nieuwe Workshop In April

Workshop Computer Controlled Voltage
door Radboud Mens
op 9, 16, 23 en 30 April, 1130h tot ongeveer 2 uur.
schade; ¤ 40 (studenten) ¤ 60 (rest van de wereld)
BEPERKT AANTAL AANMELDINGEN MOGELIJK! RESERVEER DUS SNEL.

info en reserveren; lukas at wormweb.nl

Computer Controlled Voltage - Workshop over hoe je je (modulaire) analoge synthesizer kan besturen met je computer.

Heb je oude analoge synthesizers en ben je geinteresseerd in het gebruiken van die synths in je muziek? Wil je een analoge synth integreren in je digitale studio set-up?
Oude analoge synths werken met CV en gate of trigger, hebben meestal geen MIDI en kunnen daarom maar moeilijk worden geintergreerd in een digitale studio set-up.  Maar dat is nou net wat je wilt; je oude synth controleren met je computer en combineren met harddisk recording en samples. Deze workshop gaat over het gebruik van synthesizers die geen midi hebben, in combinatie met een computer (die bv Ableton-Live draait).

De workshop bestaat uit 4 delen van ieder ongeveer 2 uur op 9, 16, 23 en 30 maart;

Pure Data

The PD Workshop by Katja Vetter is well under way, and attrackted some 15 people, and rightly so, not only is pure date fascinating stuff, katja is very much specialised in this field, so the workshop knows a thorough theoretical and a very hands on approach.

The Benjolin Workshop 26 February 2011

The Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has a definite amount of unpredictability, while it is still intuitive to play.
In a one-day workshop, conducted by the buddies in electronic madness, Rob Hordijk and Joker Nies, participants will build a analogue sound-device, that is very different from what you usually will find with other DIY-kits.
The kit will ONLY be available through attending the workshop, it is not sold separately. The Benjolin DIY-kit will be easy enough to build even for a beginner in electronics. After successfully building the instrument, which is guaranteed with the help of Rob and Joker, the workshop participants will take home a versatile and very unique analogue synthesizer that can can influence the behaviour of other voltage-controlled modules through seven different control-voltages. It is also able to receive control-voltages for filter-frequency and both of it‘s oscillators.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OFF THIS VERY NICE WORKSHOP, HELD AT WORM VOC BUILDING. PICTURES BY JOKER NIES!

KKNULL 28 FEB 2011

The awesome KKNULL was on tour with DAVE BROWN AND SHAUN BAXTER- aka TERMINAL HZ , in the neighbourhood, and with a few days to spare, to record some material in our studio.
Here's some picts, audiomaterial will follow soon.

making music at WORM

Part two of our workshop for kids is underway. About thirty kids participate each time and listen to an artist (a mini concert and a story on his music) and make a track in our analogue studio with the aide of Radboud Mens. The artist this week is MachineFabriek.
This project is a cooperation with SKVR.
Here's a little clipc catching the studio atmosphere

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and a pict of the group at the shop

picture&sound-update on radiowormstudio projects WORM AT STRP 2010 and STUDIO-SKVR WORKSHOP. RADIOWORM IN VIENNA and Z6 TRIPPLE LAUNCH PARTY

Rotterdam RecordLabel z6 released 3 issues this year: By Huib emmer, LG Simonis/Anne Laberge and the Static Tics.
Here are some picts off the release party at roodkapje

The WORM radio/studiocrew were busy traveling, doing live horspil in linz, brno and vienna (at the MQ and ORF radio). we were especially happy to find out that alan ginsberg is still alive. (in more then 1 entity). Here's the place we played in BRNO, Skena Louka...

 

And the next morning, David Subik (who organised the concert) and Josef Cseres (who attained) looked like this...

And this was in Vienna, our performance at Museumsquartier...

The final version of the radioplay was done at ORF Kunstradio and broadcasted the same evening. It was very well (live-)mixed by the ORF technicians. And of course, we stupid peasants were flabbergasted by the luxuries of the ORF Radioplay Studio. Except the usual stuff (great mics, 5.1 surround, very expensive looking HD recording gear) the pebbles path was out favorite...

And this is us, looking very relaxed....

A week later, the whole WORM crew to strp fest in eindhoven, where we build a song poem studio...
We made a Radia Network Program about it.  Here's the explanation....


THE WORM RADIO SONG POEM RADIA SHOW DECEMBER 2010

This show consists of a number of songs that were made by the Radio WORM Song Poem Crew at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven (november 2010). The theme was '80ties cassette culture' and the idea was that the audience could choose a genre from a menu, write a text, pay 3 euro's, and then the  Radio WORM Song Poem Crew would make the song with 'original' 80ties gear (the most advanced device being a 4track cassette machine), hence the 'vintage' sound qualities of the pieces. The song was delivered within a short time (5 - 30 minutes) to the client on cassette tape. The available genres on the menu were; Depressing Lo Fi Noise, Boring Art Shit, Early Happy Commodore, Gay Budget Beats, Industrial SM Love Songs, Echoïstic Melancholia Dub, Fucked Up Cassette Hardcore and Incredible Cheap Casio-Pop. There were 19 songs made in a few hours, the best of them you'll find here. Text subjects vary from ode's to leaving colleague's, the impossibilities of having a love affair where one lives in Eindhoven and the other in Amsterdam, Statements about Radio Art, a Monty Cantsin Neoist Song and lots of boring and horrible poetry. Enjoy!

People involved; Lukas Simonis, Henk Bakker, Robert Kroos, Merijn van Ham, Joost Bult, Alexander van Straten, Annemarie Nijhof, Rik Den Dood

Also performed was a testrun of HISS the tapemusical, with live music by: Wouter van Veldhoven - Aki Onda - Tapetronic - Zombies Under Stress
HISSSSS….. - a Cassette Docu Musical Revue
with a.o.: Frans De Waard and many guests. Soundclips of the preformances later to come.

BUT: LISTEN HERE TO THE SONG POEMS!!!!!!
analogue digitalism


radio art


say what's up



servies


sm filosoof


tysmanus beuk


vibrations


vier tellen geleden


witte bloemen


xoxom




Here's a movieclip of the songpoem studio in action:

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DO IT YOURSELF CLIP

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Also in progress is a big STUDIOworkshop held in cooperation with SKVR involving live music and studio recording for kids.

LISTEN HERE TO SOME TRACKS THEY MADE

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