Another busy month and lots to cram in! Alongside Greg and Matthew from Modular Podcast and the Sound On Sound magazine team things are ramping up for the first Synthfest UK event on October 1st. The three of us will be capturing footage on the day with videos for SOS, modular podcast and we'll be filling screens in the venue too. If thats not enough, we'll also be capturing footage and pictures for live social media feeds throughout the two days. There's lots of news as well so let's get stuck in! As always things underlined are links so click away.
Module of the month and what a module this is! I've been really getting into the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP, so much so I bought a second one. There's lots, and I mean lots of coverage coming with Future Music Magazine in a two part special I've created for them looking at
the Z-DSP. So watch out
for that. But for now just
trust me when I say the
Halls Of Valhalla is
AWESOME! The Z-DSP
itself is great too with lots
of CV and analogue back
end to really make the
most out of the DSP on
offer.
It's nice to share a few unrelated (but surely of interest) things as well as all the modular bits. The world record for the longest natural reverb has been broken and there's some great footage from Burning Man shot with a series of drones.
As modular users I'm sure most of us are fans of "sound", simple or complex, natural or synthesized etc etc. If that's the case this will no doubt have you excited. The previous world record for the longest ever echo/reverb has been smashed with a new whopping and all natural 112 seconds. Here's a quote from the Independent newspaper article which is well worth a read. " Acoustic scientists emerged from the Inchindown oil storage tanks, an underground fuel depot constructed during World War II, with proof that a gun-shot fired inside the tunnel resonates for a full 112 seconds." The recording is from Professor Cox from Salford University and it's from the excellent book "Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound" which you can purchase HERE. Just because I find it all quite astonishing here's another quote from the article. " There are no doors so I had to be pushed in through the 18-inch diameter pipe. I threw my clothes away when I got out. Every surface was covered in oil. But you could play whole melodies with your voice, singing chords to yourself." You can hear the recording of a