Office by Alex Penny
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“PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH! Settings are critical” - An old ARP2600 synthesizer sound designer Ben Burtt uses on Skywalker Ranch to maintain an authentic sound on Star Trek Into Darkness
(Source: CNET)
Rainbow of Sounds
It’s hard not to marvel at the crimson glow of 1966 science.
Before the digital revolution converted complex workspaces into flat-screen monitors and unobtrusive computers, the control rooms of big experiments were the ultimate in analog awesome. Our Alternating Gradient Synchrotron—still accelerating particles here at Brookhaven after 53 years—featured just such an array of custom-built electronics.
Just look at all those knobs, dials, and oscilloscopes.
This rocket is scheduled to launch in Spring 2013. Digital monophonic osc, analog filters. Sounds promising. See Waldorf website
Ian Anderson’s sequel to Thick as a Brick is on its way from Down Under to take its place in my collection. An Amazon Marketplace vendor in Australia seemed to provide the most competitive price so however strange it is, it will have been travelling through the whole world to finally reach me.
My current playlist:
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson: Lizard
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
Yes: Tales from Topographic Ocean
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
Peter Gabriel: So
Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
Tangerine Dream: Live at Bela Bartok National Concert Hall Budapest
Dead Can Dance: Spiritchaser
Wish I’d Been There!
It’s been a rainy Saturday and I decided to hop into my time machine (again) for another prog rock day. This time the year is 1975. I started out with Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield, followed up with Rubycon by Tangerine Dream and finished off with Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Great music, all of them.
State-of-the-art tube headphone amp. Makes it hard to close your eyes when listening to music.
For “an album that shouldn’t have been recorded by a band that didn’t exist” King Crimson’s second LP from 1970 titled In the Wake of Poseidon is quite remarkable. Listening to the DVD-Audio disc of the 40th Anniversary edition, which provides a lossless high resolution 5.1 surround mix done by Steven Wilson in collaboration with band mastermind Robert Fripp, is sheer bliss.
A beautifully designed and produced 40th anniversary re-issue of the legendary album Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull (1972) with new stereo and 5.1 mixes done by surround guru Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. Both the new and the original 2 channel mixes are available on the bonus DVD in high resolution format (24bit/96kHz). Alas, the 5.1 mix is in dts 96/24 format and not lossless. The book includes the phony St. Cleve Chronicle articles known from the original LP sleeves and detailed interviews plus great color photos. The music is of course timeless…
Remix of the track originally written by Jerome Froese for Tangerine Dream’s PURGATORIO album
