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...

jamesrubery

Livesession for Placard Headphone Festival

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

morefromstatictics

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.

florisvanhoof

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.

derekholzer

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)