monumental-movement-recordsMar 6

You’ll Learn

• The origins of musical toys and playful sound devices
• Why experimental musicians use toy instruments
• Famous toy instruments such as the Stylophone, Optigan, and Omnichord

#ToyInstruments #CircuitBending #SynthHistory #ElectronicMusic

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Strange Musical Toys: A History of Sonic Play

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You’ll Learn • The origins of musical toys and playful sound devices • Why experimental musicians use toy instruments • Famous toy instruments such as the Stylophone, Optigan, and Omnichord #ToyInstruments #CircuitBending #SynthHistory #ElectronicMusic youtu.be/oIjmDqNvO4M

Strange Musical Toys: A Histor...
Strange Musical Toys: A History of Sonic Play

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Show threadPepie 34 🐘🏳️‍🌈🐾Dec 19
The sequencer allowed these artists to tame the synthesizer's chaotic noises. They took "academic" sounds and forced them into a pop format.
It was the bridge that carried music from the experimental laboratory to the center of the dancefloor. 🏁 #SynthHistory #ElectronicMusic
João AlbertoFeb 7, 2025

https://www.ranker.com/list/coldwave-bands-and-artists/reference

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The Best Coldwave Bands

Coldwave artists list, with photos, ranked best to worst by votes. List of good coldwave bands includes a filter so you can sort by the groups’s label and ...

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João AlbertoFeb 7, 2025

https://www.gemtracks.com/resources/song-genres/view-genres.php?genre=coldwave#:~:text=Coldwave%20bands%20often%20use%20experimental%20and%20avant-garde%20sounds,,Division,%20The%20Cure,%20Depeche%20Mode,%20and%20Soft%20Cell.

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50+ Top Coldwave Artists + Songs (2025 UPDATE) - Gemtracks Genres

See the top Coldwave singers and bands. Read about the genre and what classifies the style with our dataset.

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Show threadviNomadicMay 19, 2024
@akx Sounds like a ground-down mini-moog? #listeningclub #synthHistory
Bob CardboardAug 12, 2023
Today (or whatever) in synth history....the Fairlight CMI finally lands at KTB Towers.....
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#CustomWaveform
#Fairlight
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fcApr 11, 2023

#CatsOfMastodon #WendyCarlos #Synth #SynthHistory

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Synth History on Instagram: "The synth pioneer of synth pioneers, Wendy Carlos. Here’s an excerpt from a November 1993 Sound on Sound interview, where she talks about Switched On Bach 2000: [SOS: Do you ever create sounds from instruments of some imaginary shape?

Wendy: Absolutely. A lot of the sounds on this recording came from having first found how to get a very decent sounding tam-tam or marimba or glockenspiel. Once you've made these sounds, and you store them, you can start to think, 'Hey, if I made these a little further apart in the overtones, what does that do?' Or, 'If I gave this one an extra peak in the middle of its overtones, what does that do?' And you start playing almost as though you're cutting the metal with tin snips, building things out of wood and brass, putting together new instruments. But you're doing it in a computer, simulating what would happen.

You find yourself coming up with new families of sound that are unlike anything you've ever heard before, except it sounds vaguely as though you've recorded some live thing rather than just a quick cheap and dirty set of oscillators being thrown together. They have a real instrument quality. There's a sequence. There's a sophistication to them. SOS: The CD booklet says that Switched On Bach 2000 took 3000 hours to create?

Wendy: Well, I guess I was a little bit self-conscious. I knew that if I didn't make this quite polished, some people would hold it up to me. When you do something like that, you're less free of spirit than when you're doing something brand new. So I'm looking forward now to doing something with a little more censure, and discovery and freedom.] Some of the gear used to create the record: 3 Kurzweil FS 150 additive synthesizers, 4 Kurzweil 1000 synth modules: SX, AX+, HX, PX+, Kurzweil MIDI Board v.3, Yamaha TX802 synthesizer, Yamaha SY77 digital synthesizer. References: Muzines, SOS."

12K Likes, 108 Comments - Synth History (@synth_history) on Instagram: "The synth pioneer of synth pioneers, Wendy Carlos. Here’s an excerpt from a November 1993 Soun..."

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AlphastareDec 29, 2022
A decent piece on the reclusive synth pioneer Wendy Carlos:
#Synthpioneers #womeninsynthesis #WendyCarlos #Moog #Music #Musique #SynthHistory
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-12/wendy-carlos-the-brilliant-but-lonely-life-of-an-electronic-music-pioneer.html
Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer

The musician helped create the Moog synthesizer and composed groundbreaking albums and film scores, but lived in seclusion for almost 10 years to hide her gender reassignment

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