synth porn in the stalker Zone

 

(via Scott Seward)

Supposedly these are abandoned Soviet-era synths rotting away in Siberia marshland

Too hauntological to be true, surely?

Indeed some have suggested that they are the creation of AI

(Which might make them even more hauntological I suppose)

Everybody sing along now:

You need ANS to hold a newborn baby

You need tender ANS to brush away the tears

But the ANS we love so dear

Are the ANS we love to hear

Are the ANS that you gi-ive to us!

 

this was tomorrow, #12

 

from the Wire:

"Ghent University in Belgium has run an electronic and electroacoustic studio for the last 50 years....

In 1963, the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television) set up a studio for electronic music in cooperation with the State University of Ghent, with the intention of operating it as both a creative studio, and a research institution. The first director was Flemish composer Louis De Meester, and one of the first instruments developed was a sine wave generator by Hubert Vuylsteke. His assistant, an engineer called Walter Landrieu, (who built one of the first sequencers in Europe) also invented an instrument that used electronic tubes to generate eight octaves derived from a single base frequency.

470 compositions were realised at IPEM between 1963–1987. It is still operational, housed in the University building Technicum, in the same place it was founded."

 more info about the IPEM: Institute For Psychoacoustics And Electronic Music: 50 years of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University  anthology can be found here

the retrofuture-rush



wow, the entire run of Synapse, the 1970s electronic music magazine, digitized for our perusal, here

for more retrofuture titillation, check out fun blog RetroSynthAds

http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/