club of knobs analog modular synthesizer

[jaapaap5]

this is what heaven might be: a nice synth and a nice girl.

[XYtoTheDoubleG]

Pedophile Gloves!!!!

[MusicMan20061210]

The validity test is whether the audience comes back for a second show.

[Neuronaluniverse]

Hi do you know NEURON?? Welcome to "neuronaluniverse": godella bon voyage 2208 . Neuron311. Thank you

[amulpatel07]

analog-kerala

[TechnoFiasco]

Next time use a breakdaning ninja and it might sound good.

[MrSidMan]

I almost had a panic attack.

[kellyssa3]

nice sync 1:20

[oscamt]

sounds all garbled here, maybe try uploading again.

[sacredgeometry]

i don't think i would call this music. there are some nice sounds in here, but this is stretching the definition way to far for my taste in the same way that "art" does. Yes technically anything is art.....but not everything is good art. Similarly this isnt great music... but the sounds are a great demonstration of synthesis.

[NuclearLullaby]

The sounds aren't exactly the greatest ,until about the middle!! The dancer ,aside from being pretty,doesn't fit in too well with the sounds

[RGAF1987]

All my respect to that lady who can dance to that music.

[funkyMonk1985]

god bless bob moog for minimoog otherwise ...

[ybot1983]

lame

[moreausylvain]

this music is soo stinky you need gloves to touch it.

[Assasinchen2006]

Oh,and another thing...that dancing lady there,she gives this music a really nice and "different" touch.Through that,this appears to be not off this planet..really spacey o.o

[Assasinchen2006]

This sounds somewhat like...the origin of sound.This music is very unique in its own way and even though it appears primitive compared to what we can make nowadays,it sort of sounds waaaay better to me.Kinda funny :P.Wish there was more of this..

[rwoods2k]

wtf is this? what have I stumbled upon on youtube? what is it with all this ppl with turning a bunch of knobs making this crappy noise? ....like they need to turn all those knobs! hahaha. effin geeks hahahaha

[fishefood]

@rwoods2k -what a silly tool. its LIVE,ELECTRIC,REAL,music..When there are so many patch possibilities,a man(or lady) stays pretty busy twerking those knobs and patch cords..lets see what YOU can do with a classic style analog modular,besides use it for a table or stare at it while crickets chirp.. ...chirp... ..chirp...zzzzz

[fishefood]

@rwoods2k -sch-mega tool.

[MichaelJHuman]

Interesting if not totally inspiring.

[TOKYOJOE]

the gloves are must to touch the altar.

[sabotage1111]

I actually like the "noise" produced by the synth: for me it's beautiful

[SimpleTechnologie]

the insane professor is calling... to much lsd or such a stuff the moog modular has much more potential than that weired sound

greetz st

[lordoid]

Hmmm...define "potential". Of course you can do nice Basses, Leads, Pads and other "musical" Sounds with that Synth. But isn't the potential of that instrument that it could also generate that weird noises and unheard tones?

[jacobkay]

rubbish. He's got his headphones nearby on because he was pissing everybody off with his noob tweaking.

[GhostTech100]

he needs or needs to check is sound limitors aand compresors lol to keep the peaks controlled man.

[GhostTech100]

what is that woman dancing to man she on lsd man no make it lsd mix with x pill.the  guy is just not paying any attion to the woman dancing to see if she is still living or didnt crook with brain tumur. THe syth is a great great piece of insurment if used right noy like frankin fag whos running it lol.

[ekomatic]

Hmmm, please hold the line. Noise is not music. Our friend does not seem to perfectly master the craft

[safuttias]

Bei mezzi...ma per fare scorre analogiche basta molto meno.

[lundijuno106]

per esempio il tuo gusto piuttosto scarso

[mrblackmagichimself]

is he wearing surgical gloves?

[ORIAM85]

OMG

[oiyabastard]

that was my first cell phone in 74

[jayjaaaay]

lool :DXD

[DJBonc]

@oiyabastard

rofl

[oiyabastard]

@DJBonc thanks man, i like funny stuff

[XYtoTheDoubleG]

Great example of why I can't justify getting a modular synth for live performance

haha

[thrcman]

yet another $40 000 modular system where the owner can only produce random beeps and boops. You guys arent even in rythm! Lame

[sacredgeometry]

arrghh boring ....and no im not going to leave that statement unjustified....this is like the old school of synthesis where the people didnt know how to use them to make anything but random noise or playing classical music with awful harpsichord patches. we have come so far from this if you want to hear somone make a synth scream in a hendrix/guitar kinna way go listen to simon posford/shpongle. this is amature

beautiful synth though

peace

brian

[roy89321]

yes, the synthesizer itself is actually a work of art< it should be express like this

[flidsticks]

I had a dream like this once, except there was a large blue dog chasing me and it had a little bowler hat on. I think it was a Daschund.

[MarcoShevil]

MAD, MAD, MAAAAD!

[vukproject]

amaizing

[00DjAlien00]

Nice Video! one day I'll build my own analogue synth... there is no limit in creativity

[LeonardRockstein]

Ok...I'll settle that being more of a free-form piece. I must be too much of a phillistine ...I didn't get it.

[smolakowsky]

wat

[rodolphesimon]

damn, serious equipment.

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

Can i just say that alot of the posters here mis-intrepeted this video completely.

Thats quite embarrasing if any of you consider yourselves appreciators of art. Your probably the type that looks at a turd and tries to romanticise it. I believe your lying to yourself if you think you understand art.

Anyway i forgot to mention, the way the 'clicky' movements are picked up in the beginning is quite impressive. What functions we're mapped to the triggers ?

[derbydookie]

Man Ive seen some weird stuff in my day. . .

[williamc99]

That dancer is annoying as hell. It's just so weird to be dancing to this kind of music, lol.

[rustyanalog]

hmm. maybe you don't know what happens in this video. the female dancer movements are captured by an ultra sonic interface and this informations controls the synthesizer. nobody is making music, it is only a translation of the movements. ok?

[williamc99]

The information controls the synthesizer? Funny. It seems as if the guy is controlling the synthesizer. Looks like an old Analog synthesizer most likely from the 70's or early 80's. I think it's a Moog Modular of some kind. And it seems very much as if that guy is making music. Ever heard any of Tangerine Dream's songs or perhaps Kraftwerk's or Klaus Schulze's? It was kinda like that in their early years.

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

I thought thats whats going on.

Well done ! Its something i've been thinking about for some time. I've got some other ideas aswell !

Nintendo Wii perhaps ? :) Interactive music/visual game that tracks movement with a camera and triggers sounds. Would be alot of fun for users if you had to dance a certain way to make elements of a song and also triggered visuals.

[tie32101]

Weird but cool performance

[xpez]

the counter intuitive elements in this piece at first, capture my attention. ( the historical dance set against a synthetic artificial score.)

The piece slowly turns away my attention away when the elements never find any intellectual collaborative relationship.

Its as if they exist in two separate dimensions placed side by side; one completely unaware of the other.

Thats an interesting idea, but the work never  finds a way to expose this circumstance. Both parts just ends simultaneously.

[hannibalsloat]

Fuck off you pretentious fool.

[xpez]

HAHAHAHA...

U can't take a joke when the criticism is directed toward you.

Big attitude, cant take a joke, hating peoples work; whats a matter with you?

someone please show this turd to the door.

[hannibalsloat]

This is rubbish. It's not musical, it's just noise. Absolute crap.

[cacophony1]

what do you think music is....its noise jackass.

[hannibalsloat]

A combination of Melody, Harmony, and rhythm is what makes music. Not noise you fucking idiot.

[cacophony1]

calm down baby.

noise (noiz)

n.

Sound or a sound of any kind.

So doesnt that mean music made of sounds / noises? because, fair sure the ryhthm, melody harmony, are noises?

Some people like this too you know, also read the descriptions below on what took place, its pretty ironic for someone as dense as yourself to say someone is an idiot ;)

[hannibalsloat]

Epic Fail. haha

[SoIamGothica]

Music is, specifically, organized noise.

[Wyrehedd242]

affirmative... crapola.

[Pesterons]

Verse, chorus, verse= predictible, boring music for the layman. This is art. Don't like it? listen to the radio or mtv to tell you what "music" you should listen to. Give me a challenging listen anyday over that top 20 crap.

[hannibalsloat]

Firstly, I never stated that music has to follow the verse,chorus, verse format. Secondly, mtv doesn't even play music, it plays bullshit reality programming. Like yourself I prefare a challenging listen to most of the commercial music out there, but this wouldn't be it. It's pretentious bullshit.

[xpez]

I have grown out of this kind of criticism towards other peoples art.

First, its pointless and unproductive.

secondly, its boring. Who cares what you think is good.

Thirdly, it ends the conversation about the work in question.

Why not tell us how and why this doesnt work, share some insight with examples of other similar work that is successful in your opinion.

Things that are completely awful I tend to ignore them,its not worth the effort.

This provoked u so it has some value.

[thrcman]

Neither artist on stage are in sync with eachother what so ever, what was the point of combining the two? Nice synth though!

[grenouil1970]

Hello,

Es ce que vous pouvez donner vos explications en Français ?????

Merci beaucoup

[synthesizerman]

The guy playing that syhth also sells Club of the Knobs synthesizer modules. He wasn't playing the synthesizer, the synthesizer was interpreting the dance with sensors placed around the dancer. Some ove the videos have their moments. To "PimpMyFahrrad" this guy pays his bills with his modular synthesizers.

[PimpMyFahrrad]

8 emotions? Huh???

[Wyrehedd242]

why is it that these incredible machines always seem to fall into the hands of people who seemingly have no idea what the hell they are doing and end up making a fine instrument into a huge noise box. its like taking a fine tuned grand piano and smashing it to bits and calling it music.

[graytmann]

what? crazy sounds is music and its daft punk like!

[PimpMyFahrrad]

You know what - I'm 100% with you. They call it "experimental" music... yeah, right - I call it "crap"... they call themselves "professional sound designers" - yeah, right - bunch of idiots with huge and expensive modulars and have no idea how to use it.

I'll buy my own DotCom someday, but be the God my witness, I will use it for the good of mankind.

There are probably 1-2 people on tube who are actually playing their modulars.

And it's nothing like Daft Punk...

[synthprocess]

hmm. maybe you don't know what happens in this video. the female dancer movements are captured by an ultra sonic interface and this informations controls the synthesizer. nobody is making music, it is only a translation of the movements. ok?

[rustyanalog]

Thanks for taking the time out to explain what's actually taking place here. I think the viewers needed it for sure. I personally feel that if your going to demonstrate the full potential of these great modular systems why would you limit yourself to musical clichés played on piano type keyboards. Different forms of experimental triggering for these machines is for me, very exciting.

[LofiFreq]

" Different forms of experimental triggering for these machines is for me, very exciting."

thank god someone else thinks this way!!!

[allismind]

who are you to say what music is? music is anything people want it to be... even silence

[neandrewthal]

Congrats. You missed the point. What would you rather do with a huge modular synth? Play Stairway to Heaven?

[PimpMyFahrrad]

Make some music... Jean Michel Jarre for example - he has 100 times more gear than this guy (including modular synths), and yet he doesn't get lost in it - he makes music.

You CAN put noises in a musical composition - but this, good sir, ain't a composition... it's like hitting piano keys randomly and pretending that you know what you are doing: would you call that music?

[LofiFreq]

RIGHT they totally missed the point! lol :)

"And it's nothing like Daft Punk..." hahahahaha

like 4 on the floor Techno

[hereiamhere75]

well i think many of those people have an idea what they are doin´, but i also think that many of those are just bad or no musicians. some are just proud to own such a big synth, others are like kids and think everyone should be impressed like they are themselves by creating...crap. it´s no wonder, cause the average musician is relativley poor.

and the average rich person is a bad musician. (prejudice??? - a kind of maybe, but somehow i know i´m right) noise is great !!! in the right context!!!

[hereiamhere75]

most time when i want to reply on a comment, it appears not below the comment i wanted to place it (in this case wyrehedd242) but on the top. can anyone tell me what i´m doin´wrong ??? by the way i wanted to say that this noise isn´t bad at all, but only because that girl is dancin´ and because it´s a part of a performance...though, it seems to random and just listening to it doesn´t tell me a story at all. o.k. it´s crap.

[vincentmarc27]

NOTHING could be as horrifying or as scary as that Chains of Love bit you have on your profile Wyrehedd - what gay pride festival was that from sailor?

[LofiFreq]

LOL right super scary!!!

[tjones131]

Wow I love Atari!!!!

[MarcusAmadeus]

synths rule

[L0FiFr3Q]

love the gloves

[orianagrc]

my fave mod synth video

[AndyElectroMan]

totally amazing...

[pnynablndr]

beautiful sounds

[tie32101]

weird but cool

[forksofpower]

practicing for that must have sucked ass for the chick...

all that movement...

[graaaaant]

what the fuck was that

[moondrifter1]

pretty dance

[uglyguido]

the presets on my Dimension pro sound better than this and they only cost me $500 together.

[teknobeam]

multi dimensional expressive elements ambitious and raw not to mention original art. a dance piece but somehow elevated

and more abstract.

[blapo38]

Was he the musician or just the technician in charge of warming the synth up?

[synthesizerman]

You don't get it

[chazum0]

sounds like peacebone by animal collective

[Raunchola]

this is a psychedelic masterpiece!

[ohrspace]

et pourquoi y met des gants, il a peur de salir !!!!

[grimisstacks]

nice gloves  why do people make noise on modulars make something you can get into

[practitioneer]

That is cool, especially the detail, that the Synth has been built by the artist himself. The Performance reminds me a bit to the very nice 90th epoc of electronic art evolution. I like it very much

[klausito1970]

Cool.

[oooorigin]

pfef !

[synthmonger]

more please!

[HAN10]

What´s up with synthprogress at this time??

[nikiforberg]

soft synths.

[synthprocess]

hi rustyanalog. you are shure, that you have the copyright to show this video?

[HAN10]

Oh ha! Do YOU have not more footage of the show?