Anagram firmware update
Darkglass has announced another firmware update for Anagram. Version 1.8 offers compressor gain reduction metering inside block settings and on block image, block input and output level metering in block settings, signal chain zoomed-out view, and threshold adjustments on all compressors. A few other tweaks also.
Paderewski Piano Competition semis
The semi-finalists of the Paderewski Piano Competition have been named as Micha? Oleszak from Poland, Shuhei Aoshima, Tsuzumi Namikawa and Takuma Onodera from Japan, Jiyoung Kim and Hyunjin Roh from South Korea, Julie Haismann from France, Ivan Shemchuk from Ukraine, Pin-Hong Lin from Taiwan and Elia Cecino from Italy.
Joshua Kao wins state piano competition
Joshua Kao has won the Alaska State competition and is preparing to compete in the Northwest Division of the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA) Senior Piano Competition.
Kao played pieces by Beethoven, Chopin and Prokofiev, plus a jazz composition.
Classical Pulp Fiction
Taking a look back to 2016 when William Campbell, Caroline Campbell and Tina Guo covered Miserlou from Pulp Fiction, currently seeing 10m YouTube views.
Get Bent! workshop
Synth Library Portland is putting on another of its Get Bent! workshops, in which participants will learn and attempt to circuit bend a vintage Speak & Spell from Texas Instruments.
“Each attendee will receive an original vintage Speak & Spell, Speak & Math, or Speak & Read to bend and take home. The workshop is open to all skill levels including beginners, but previous experience with soldering is helpful. We will provide guidance on “classic” bends suggested by Reed Ghazala (credited with coining the term circuit bending) and others, but please note that the bending process does have some inherent risk of damaging the Speak & Spell’s audio circuit in ways that are not desirable. We will also supply switches and potentiometers for implementing bends.”
Electro track from image
Noah Pred demonstrates how to create an entire electro track using just one photo—by mapping visual pixels to pitch, velocity, chance, and time via Photomat, Data Synth, and Data MIDI. It’s a deep exploration into image-based composition and reactive sound design.
Dave Rossum joins Moog
Moog has announced that synth pioneer Dave Rossum has joined the Bob Moog Foundation board of directors.
