Swar Systems has introduced Swar Studio 3, a major update to its Mac & Windows DAW for making Indian music Swar Studio 3 features 41 virtual instruments, 17 of which are Indian ones: Accordion, Bansuri, Bass, Bells, Brass Section, Brightness, Cello, Chimta, Choir Aahs, Clean Guitar, Dhol, Dholak, Drums, Duff, Duggis, Dulcimer, Electric Bass, Electric Guitar,… Read More Swar Studio, A DAW For Indian Music, Gets Major Update
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, from 1997, captures a then 9-year old Carolina Eyck playing Romanze, by Natalja Baklanova.
Synthesist Isao Tomita – best known for a series of albums featuring synthesizer arrangements of classical works – has died at the age of 84. Tomita (22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016) died of chronic cardiac failure, with family at his bedside.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance by Vinícius Mello of François Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses.
Sunday Synth Jam: Carolina Eyck is one of the world’s foremost theremin virtuosi, performing with orchestras around the world. She’s also created an excellent series of performance and educational videos. In this video, the second in her ‘Theremin Session’ series, Eyck discusses and performs the Canon for Theremin and Loop Station by Christopher Tarnow.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures an encore performance by thereminist Carolina Eyck.
American minimalist composer and performer Terry Riley is not as well known as fellow minimalists Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Nevertheless, his work – which explores tape looping, live performance with tape delay, microtonality, world music influences, synthesis and more – has been influential across several generations of musicians An interesting example of his early… Read More Minimalist Terry Riley Was Remixing Before Remixing Was Cool – ‘You’re Nogood’
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Flavio Sallin, captures a ‘switched-on’ style performance of Bach on an iPad.
Sunday Synth Jam: In this video, Markus Fuller, who is usually dissecting electronic music gear in his videos, shares his switched-on/classitronica style arrangement of Edvard Grieg‘s In The Hall Of The Mountain King.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRYpIYCHlOI Bach In Lights is a music visualization, based on Bach’s Prelude And Fugue In C (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, No.1), performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
