A track from the album 'New Reality' out now on Constellation Tatsu.

Ecovillage - When I Was A Boy ft. X.Y.R.

“Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.

LP/Digital available 10/7/21

In Ictu Oculi

Eiko Ishibashi - live ateliers claus

FIRST AID meets sine waves ... exploring the 4 quadrant multiplication in the Dual Serge Active Pro+ for some meditative sounds. The VCF2 in SIEGFRIED is used for filtering (VC Resonant EQ is taking a day off).

First Aid Meditation

My beloved 1983 DK Synergy II+ No.01205 at Hideaway Studio reawakens for the first time in quite a while after finally getting around to making some essential repairs.  Every time I get in front of one of these early digital monsters I'm left jaw dropped by how they managed to generate such complex digital synthesis in 16-bit audio with such a remarkable degree of fluidity and expression from a design concept that was on the drawing board in the mid/late 1970s... it's just beyond me. 

The Synergy II+ was essentially a later more affordable Crumar/DK General Development System in terms of function and specification  - both of which share identical 32 Digital High Speed Oscillator boards based on The Alles Machine designed by Hal Alles at Bell Labs who went on to advise the development team at Digital Keyboards.

This isn't the result of some crazy overdubbed multi-track session - it was a live improv recorded into a reverb straight from the now 40 year old beast's output whilst tweaking some of the front panel controls!

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2023.

1983 DK Synergy II+: Flux Rheology...

Testing out a 1992 KORG Wavestation SR new to the studio following some minor repairs.  Although sporting its tiny screen in 1U packaging, the SR was the smallest in the Wavestation series, but it was by no means a cut down version in terms of its synthesis power.  A fair few of its multitude of its factory patches may now sound very dated it is still a very capable synth capable of remarkably complex and fluid timbres and textures even by 2023 standards.   The problem is harnessing this power and the fact that programming such a beast has a rather steep learning curve to say the least!  That said, there are still some real belters to be found among all those stock patches and a lot more out there on the net to load up and explore...

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2023.

1992 KORG Wavestation SR: Letterbox Dreams...

Yu Miyashita - In Between Head and Heart

Stanze e Distanze (part 4)

A test recording made during the final signoff process of another gorgeous 1978 KORG PS-3300 following a lengthy major overhaul at Hideaway Studio.  This 144 tone generator analog polysynth is the same model Vangelis used in conjunction with his infamous Yamaha CS-80 to produce the Chariots of Fire theme.

PS-3300 Final Signoff

1978 KORG PS-3300: Horns

Another aleatoric FM Patch. For some reason i tended to a pentatonic scale...maybe because it always works. Hope you like it!

Warten

https://amhain.bandcamp.com/album/arcv-dts-91-98-vol-vii

1997

Rdsp

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

1978 KORG PS-3300: Horns

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