Hey folks try doing this on your average tape deck!... :-]

I'd been meaning to try this experiment for some time now and was delighted to find it actually works quite well...

Unlike normal tape recorders, the TEAC MR-30 records analog signals down to DC as FM encoded audio tones originally for laboratory use to data-log experiments - so I got curious and had a go recording pitch CV from a Moog System 55 straight to tape and then playing it out into one of the VCOs - to my delight not only did it work but when you change the tape speeds everything changes speed with it without affecting the pitch - the cool bit is that its all slightly wonky and adds a curious human feel to everything in the process.  Heck it even plays backwards.  

The even cooler bit is that the MR-30 can record and play up to 7 tracks (which can be a mixture of CV and audio) so at some point I might have a go doing something similar but with a full CV controlled setup.

The MR-30 can also do cool stuff to audio (which it was never really intended for) including transposing down several octaves without revealing the bias oscillator:

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/slo-mo-mu-30-070120

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2021.

1983 Teac MR-30: Recording Pitch CV onto FM Encoded Tape...

From the new album by Chinese-Australian guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang (and collaborators), 'Phoenix Rising'. Available for purchase here: https://mindymengwang.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-rising

Mindy Meng Wang & Fia Fiell - Undercurrent 暗涌

Music creates a sterile zone. A sacred space that is separated from the profane world. But music is also a source from which emotions flow. It is transcendance in immanence. Secteur Stérile is an ode to this elsewhere that is also an here and now.
Detlev Holtz, half of überspannung, back on Mutant with a train of wet drum machines-filled tracks;
Jungvieh, half of überspannung and mountain cowboy. From jodel to drum machines, from dub to rural wave : songs about humans and animals;
Kelly Placard - Be it as a bass player, as a volunteer or as a concert promoter, for the past ten years Kelly Placard has been an active participant in Strasbourg’s alternative DIY music scene, continuously fuelling her passion for underground music from the 1980’s to today.

Jungvieh - Secteur Stérile [14.11.2023]

"Endless Pit" is the fifth track of Amek's "Vanishing Standards III" compilation. 

Featuring vocals from my main project @niandraz .
Visualizer: https://youtu.be/QUM7u7ANGaE

Vanishing Standards III:
"The third installment of our bi-annual Vanishing Standards compilation series closes the year of our fifteenth anniversary. As usual, we wanted to have as many members of our extended family aboard as possible, as well as welcome new ones into it. Of course, they are in the company of Amek regulars, whom, whenever we could, we tried to inspire to work in new collaborations and configurations. The result is not only the shortest volume in the series but also the first one dominated by atmospheric, yet noisy, tracks that are punctuated with some unexpected heavy hitters."

credits
released December 18, 2023

Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

This is amek070.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-standards-iii

погледни / отрази / черни дни / пропадни .

Vanishing Standards III

Endless Pit (ft. Niandraz)

🎄released December 19, 2023
Available on Bandcamp: x4records.bandcamp.com/album/--5

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui
Artwork by Jerohme

Tracks:
1. Jerohme - Dance of the Lumpy Sugar Fair
2. Anitta - Cut the Mustard (Feat. Tom Sine)
3. Greystar - New Friends
4. utopia cloak - all I want for Christmas is Velum Break
5. Florian Förster - Weg durch den Sumpf
6. lee - Festive AF M8
7. Dollarstore Keyboard - Dolby Dragon 2
8. The Simian - The Cold Visitor of Glass and Phoshor
9. Danny Playamaqui - Hi-hat
10. love horses - brianv2

Released by:
X4 Records
Release date:
19 December 2023

Cut The Mustard (feat tom)

Hibernation

notal1 606

Portions Transparent/Opaque (2014/23) 

IC-IIG excerpt recording [6:00 beginning of Portion II]

Ilan Volkov, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, London
July 24th, 2023

Lamb BBCSSO Portions IC IIG July23 Excerpt

Extract from the longform piece of MOLJEBKA PVLSE's new album "Topography of Frequency and Time" , out on Drone Records 02.2024 in the SYM series (SYM_06)

The term "Topography" means the study of the forms and features of land surfaces., the physical appearance of natural attributes in a certain area... MATHIAS JOSEFSON aka MOLJEBKA PVLSE has adopted this notion to characterize this long form multiple-layer drone ambient expanse, a continuous flow of sound that can lead you into different aural regions...like the recent "Sacrificed Phloem (Zannec Line)" by LOPEZ/MENCHE (SYM:04) this one-tracker (exactly 70 minutes long) guides through you various stages.. after a massive beginning there's a very mellow / harmonic middle part, the aural topography of sound changes again towards the ending...a continuous "transfer" into non-ordinary states of mood & consciousness...
Mathias Josefson shares his thoughts on the album: " 'Topography of Frequency and Time' is an expedition through expansive sonic landscapes that stretch beyond our daily awareness. It serves as an open invitation to transcend the visual confines of physical space, encouraging a deep dive into the unexplored realms of sound and time. This album seeks to chart the uncharted territories of our auditory experience, intricately mapping the intersections of three-dimensional space within the frequency and time domains."
MOLJEKBA PVLSE, based in Stockholm and Hamburg, has accompanied Drone Records for a long time, with releases on 7" and 10" vinyl. Active since 1999, the project has evolved from more minimal droning soundscapes on to complex multi-layered atmospheric conglomerations of acoustic and electronic sounds, field recordings and found sounds, feat. various guest musicians.

retail order:  https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=22014

MoljebkaPvlse - TopographyOfFrequencyAndTime (excerpt)

my first ever concert -- specially crafted, with improvised, released, and previously unreleased tunes. wow!!!!

@ IF Bar, 18.02.2024, 20:00 (MSK)

tracks 8 and 9 were made in preparation for the event, were not played at the time and, as such, are considered additional.

livambdem [0224]

panno (live)

Folklore Tapes Ceremonial County Series Vol.II - Suffolk | Dorset

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

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