Back to the Future Sounds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2015
- On January 19, 2015 Moog Music Inc. announced their plans to recommence a limited run manufacturing of three of their most sought after 5U large format modular synthesizers: The System 55, the System 35 and the Model 15. These three modular synthesizer systems were originally created and manufactured by Moog in 1973.
To commemorate the announcement, Moog shot a short film at their factory about the inspiring and multifaceted relationship artists have with modular synthesizers. The video features electronic music pioneers such as Suzanne Ciani, Malcolm Cecil, David Borden, Dick Hyman and Herb Deutsch alongside performances on the new Moog modular systems by Holy Ghost! (DFA Records), Gavin Russom (ECSTATIC/Entropy Trax), Max Ravitz AKA Patricia (L.I.E.S./Opal Tapes/ Spectral Sound), Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (Western Vinyl), Jacques Greene (Vase/LuckyMe) and M. Geddes Gengras (Stones Throw/Leaving). Each artist played a patch on one or more of the new Moog modular synthesizers recorded in one take with no overdubs.
Moog Modular Synthesizers: www.moogmusic.com/content/moog...
David Borden: www.cuneiformrecords.com/bands...
Dick Hyman: www.dickhyman.com
Gavin Russom: www.gavinrossum.com
Herb Deutsch: www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_pr...
Holy Ghost!: holyghostnyc.net/
Jacques Greene: jacquesgreene.com/
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: www.kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Malcolm Cecil: www.tontostudio.com/malcolm.html
Max Ravitz/AKA Patricia: / patriciaaa
M. Geddes Gengras: / mggengras
Suzanne Ciani: www.sevwave.com/ - เพลง
This is the best 20 minute commercial I've ever watched.
I think Keith Emerson's use of the modular moog synthesizer was the most creative and intelligently thought out in modern music. Even a simplistic idea like his random s/h waveform modulation of the cutoff frequency was genius. His sequencer use at the end of Karn Evil 9 is brilliant Then there's the lucky man and from the beginning solos. Thanks Keith
He had a tremendous amount of determination - a sense that this machine *should* be able to be used for X, Y, Z. There is a big difference between using a modular to make noises and using one as an instrument that you rely on to do specific things at specific times. The "Welcome Back, My Friends..." album is a case study with respect to really leaning on a modular as a key element of a keyboard rig that is front and center on almost every song on a three-record set. Even when he *is* using it as a noisemaker (in "Tarkus") his ad lib still makes musical sense, with phrasing and development like any other good solo should.
Mooog has hooked us all up with the Model 15 App! Three cheers for MOOG! Thank you Moog from the bottom of my heart.
psysword definitely happy about that
Thanks for introducing Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to me. She is simply amazing.
The damn panel looks more complex than the cockpit of a space shuttle!
I think the argument that industry/people have moved away from modular synths because instant gratification is the name of game is false.
I think the biggest factor against modular/analog synths is cost (and the size of early synths).
If modular/analog synths weren't so expensive (and they always have been) then I think they would be far more common place.
Midi, digital, DAWs etc. have democratized music creation.
No longer is it the domain of the super rich artists but available to almost everyone.
Don't get me wrong, I love analog synths & digital can't truly emulate it, but cost is still a barrier for most.
+Noob Blaster In the current world of Doepfer and Euro Rack type of modular synths/parts it doesn`t have to cost all that anymore, compared to stand alone Synths that is.
I completely agree, maybe not as clear as I could have been but my comment was directed mostly towards large modular gear like the System 55 etc.
I will admit, at the time I wrote the original comment, my knowledge of modern analog synth gear was rather limited & somewhat ignorant.
Your comment is even more true with the new wave of (Korg Volca, minilogue, Arturia & Akai synths to name a few).
I have seen many comments of people who have entered the world of analog synthesis purely because of the affordability of these products (including myself).
Cheers :)
Analogue gear is getting quite cheap now.
Cartoon Head, I agree. I started in the analogue era and could only afford a Moog Prodigy and a Jen SX-1000, both at second hand prices. People bought what they could afford and still do. The astronomical cost of the new modulars are a similar barrier.
Cartoon Head I'm an musician I play my synthesizers keys sequencer samplers I used analog to digital sound whenever created a sounds for my music I'm part of my expression lol
I thought this was going to be sound effects from Back To The Future
Me too
I'm happy it wasn't
So did I, then it turned out to be something much more inspiring, time to blow the dust off my Pro One :-)
I wish I could jam out on this so bad. This machine gets respect from 80's kids don't be let down . It was way ahead of it's time, the sequencer is still a new idea to people in the current era.
Well spocken: 'Maybe it is time to go back to see what we have missed.'
I love how it's the old people in this vid rip the hardest meaty tones out of this beast. They set up the patches that the 20 year olds "played" lol.
How cool would it be to hang out with some 70 year old synth mage and learn how to really use this thing??
Just begin without a preconception.
I'll be back in half a century ;)
I have been composing hip-hop for some time now, and I've always used the ES2 synth in Logic Pro X for the bass as I found it good enough for my needs. Then I bought an MS-20 mini and my game changed entirely; composing went easier, finding the right sounds became more intuitive and the entire process became infinitely more fun. Sending a sequence from Logic to the MS-20 and recording the output back into the project, I found that even though I used a loop I composed, the resulting riff from the MS-20 sounded different on every loop; it had a subtle difference that added life to the piece. I was never to return to software monophonic synthesisers ever again.
What a beautiful peace of engineering
This is one of the best documentary videos i have ever watched on TH-cam. I am a clasically trained pianist and organist, but the Moog Synthesizer has shaped my worldview in the sounds of the future. Claude Denjean and the Moog Synthesizer (1971)...was for me what was the piano for Mozart.
I was buying my own house this year and I say "I was" because the priority has changed. I would be homeless but a happy owner of a Moog Modular!
I've been involved with synthesizers and electronic music since my early 20s from the mid 1970s. I like a lot of electronic musos, get a kick from the repetition of sequences/sounds like you hear in this. It is also important to note that the people who can afford these expensive beasts are........! These beasts are attractive, but look like test gear in some laboratory, unlike a piano or a guitar etc.... there is and always has and will be a dichotomy with these pieces of science
these machines are amazing I get goose bumps ever time I hear one
Herb Deutsch was my professor at Hofstra University. What a cool dude. Brilliant! I feel privileged to have studied with the coinventor of such a game changing instrument! Wow. And yet, I still can't afford a Moog --not even the new Sub37. Bummer.
Sahara 090312 you can find one reverb.com
Amazing video about an amazing instrument! I LOVE this vivid analogue sound, can't get enough of it.
Synthesizers still have something to say in music and I hope it will never change...
Equisynth Studio synths are the future.
Brilliant, thank you.
Beyond beautiful music, I love that this hints at a genuine, underlying philosophy.
hell yeah, i've been waiting for this movement for a long time!
you guys are putting out some great content!
Thank You!!!
Bravo and Thank you!!
Very inspiring "Let's go back to see what we missed"
This would be so incredible to be able to even try or learn on. I wish I could afford to expand my knowledge onto a modular beast like this. VERY amazing!
just ordered a mother-32. can't wait!
Lovely sounds.
OMGOMGOMG!!! This is such epic news! Will I need to sell my house for one like back in the day?
Yes indeed. Nothing's changed.
Most expensive modular unit they are selling from these is $50,000. So, possibly.
The system 15 is 10k USD. The system 35 is 22k USD. The system 55 is 35k. Not bad, considering these things DID cost as much as a house in the 70's. Still, the Synthesizers.com systems are a much better value IMO.
Yes.
Isn't that exciting?
Voltor07 Yes indeed. Even the COTK exact clones in Europe are a better value, even with shipping overseas fees and money exchange rates !
Outstanding!
It may be no surprise to know that the Beatles experimented with a Moog synthesizer in Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Amazing! Cannot wait for this! Xxxx
Not imitation but innovation is the keyword. Nice video!
Sound at 3:01 blow my mind!
I wrote a high school English term paper on electronic music around 1970. I remember Moog and others. Then several years later in college at UNC-Chapel Hill, I attended a Gershon Kingsley Moog Quartet concert. There were four Moogs with speakers at the four corners of the auditorium. Of course, I was sitting at the front left corner closest to Kingsley, so the cassette tape I made got mostly one speaker. "Popcorn" was popular at the time, so of course he performed that.
When the loop take you in nirvana like a good mantra vibration and you feel the univesal inside your soul .
Peace and Love
This is really exciting stuff guys!
I really loved your clip Mrnes :) great
This video is mega-awesome.
I've been shown the beginnings of modular synthesis and want more.
"And the Way shall be filtered and yay, many envelopes shall open, oh man." (Second verse of Oscillators, chpt. 22. new revised version)
Light blinking * * * *
Thanks Moog.
Oh, would I ever love one of those.
"24 track was then synced to the Moog Modular"
Daft Punk knew that to look ahead was to also look back at modular. RIP
Yes please - Bring on the modulars! :)
Modulars are wonderful
Hmm if the sounds are infinite in number why are we always hearing the same sounds again and again, all the sounds in this video are sounds that one heard in the 70's - but let's hope they are right and some new sounds will appear.
The sounds are in your mind, that's why they're infinite, the Moog is only a instrument or a vehicle for your own inspiration.
cos that kind of thing happens usually in all areas,...see the great success that was wendy carlos's "switched on Bach" , but a new instrument with that potential deserved another proach, but at the same time opened "the ears" of the listeners that also used to refuse new things or in this case new sounds...
exactly, all I'm hearing is boring tangerine dream on this video.
new sound have appeared as new chips have came along. for example the altari punk console is step tone generator that made in 1980. now days IC chips are really good so you can cram a lot in mod. what I heard in 1970 the ic chip where not that good. plus with midi you can control several mods at once.
They are not the same sounds but our mind needs to train to hear the differences. Technically speaking, no instrument makes the same sounds ever, but in a piano you have a range of sounds to play with, and that's it. In a synthesizer you will always have continua and that is extremely powerful if not to music to any kind of sonic experience. I think this is what the message is about, or at least this is how I understand and experience music.
extremely exciting, glad you let jacques greene have a go at it! :)
The synthesizer music is the most interesting and inside are the sounds of the future to my mind.
Playing music for 28 of my 40 years alive, which had always been guitar , was something that brought incredible excitement when I started to feel proficient. I had always been interested in Moog as a teen in the 1990s, but never had access to one. I had a few cheap synths over the past 10 years, but it was last year, after buying a Moog Grandmother, then a Moog Mother 32, DFAM, Make Noise 0-Coast, besides other synths like a Korg Minilogue, Digitone, Roland JU-06, I started working on my modular eurorack rig, and the rush of excitement, as far as making music again, came rushing back. There’s so much that’s amazing about it that are indescribable. I’m absolutely hooked on modular , and different types of synthesis in general now. I’m so glad I got into it, although I can understand how price would be something that holds a lot of people back.
Amen brutha! I've been a musician since age 8,and now at 62 I am discovering Eurorack synths! How exciting! I am designing my first system and can't wait to get it all going!
Awesome.
Amazing
Nice primer on the Hegelian Dialectic, Malcolm Cecil!
mootbooxle Malcolm Cecil work with Stevie wonder projects like music of my mind talking book innervisions he programming Stevie analog synthesizers called arp 2600 and modular Moog system
"The kids want that, the kids need that!" Sorry, but the kids don't have 10 - 150 grand.
They need learn how to playing whole bars of instruments see I'm self taught musician I learn everything about music its value instrument
Keith Emerson is the hero of Moog Synthesizer
I can't figure out why I'm crying. Maybe I should figure out how to buy one of these?!
I was born in 1964.
The Moog sound is rolling in my 64!
Moog made DJ DIGITAL🎹🎼💻🎵🎧
The patch from 4:13 - 6:50 by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is beautiful (especially from 5:50 onwards). Anyone know if this is somehow available for purchase or download, if it is an existing track by her, or if it's just improvised on the spot?
My Arturia Modular V is most likely the closest I'll ever get to owning one of these, but Bob Moog himself had a direct role in its development, and Klaus Schulze and Isao Tomita, two of my biggest heroes, gave him a hand as well, so I'm more than happy.
moog hook me up im poor as fuck
Know the pain mate
What kind of device are you using to access TH-cam? Maybe it can run a virtual synth.
Go get the Arturia V collection,all the best classic modular synths are featured.IT'S FUCKING WICKED.
Daniel Mocsny is it even comparable? could you show me some videos and controllers?
Fuck VST
WOW, these guys at 12:31 really got it!!
De Seulen Holy Ghost!
awwwww yeah M. Geddes Gengras at the end
William Scerbo i need this track i cant find it
5:47
Wow... I would by that track if i could. Sound fantastic!
Best innovations! Try did the same with hand-made generators on the simple mono-keys and tape-recorder with my friend. And it was to much pinouts! It`s not to difficult as you think. Different voltage or freqency gives new sound.
I'd love a full version of the Holy Ghost track were playing.
Have you ever felt that you've listened to the future? Because I just did.
very beauty sounds start at 14:41 thank you
This is the greatest news ever
I go to the local music store every wed/thu/friday and always go straight to the Sub-37. It's fucking amazing the sounds you can make. It makes me realise how easy deadmau5 does it lol, literally ALL his signature sounds are made by just going over thirds or fifths slowly while increasing and decreasing the cutoff and arp rate. Made the entire intro to FN Pig using these notes on one of the Arp Presets.
But seriously moog please give me a sub-37.
YES
Really like where M. Geddes Gengras is taking the Moog Modular.
Those who believe that all sounds have been heard before have not looked at paintings done by new individuals using the brush and pigments. Looking forward to hearing more. Thanks Moog!
Robert A. Moog was awarded the Polar Music Prize 2001
Sweetwater needs to select this for one of their monthly give-aways
Excelent I love it ! What happens if you try with a guitar instead of a keyboard?
I'm going to buy six at once!
What is the song at 2:40 ? Its awesome!!
Great fun news. Now please make some more Taurus 3 sets and I'll love you forever. I missed out on the first run.
I can definitely see some skilled EDM DJ's utilize these in some live shows. Just like a drummer might not use every tom, clav, or cymbal during every song, these can be another tool to enhance a few select songs during a show and give them another tool alongside the CDJ's, laptops, mixers, and pads.
where can I listen to the full track played by Max Ravitz AKA Patricia?
We wait for a Minimoog reissue !!
when will be available? How buy it? How many pieces will be made?
..oh and thumbs up/subscribed.
Is there a playlist that contains nothing but modular synthesizer demos like the ones in this demo? I really want to know.
Check out any Suzanne Ciani album. Shes one of the people in this doc.
Nowadays where Moog Modulars are constructed again, and are for sale again, to wear an Moog logo t-shirt it's even more worthwhile :p
Can you recommend a compilation with all performers?
They should've done this years ago.
OK, Cool I'm gonna buy 4
Sure ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Like! Brothers
Random question but what kind of flight case are these synths sitting on? It’s exactly what I’m looking for
Tempted to get one and use it like all the other limited run will be; Stuck in storage for ten years then sold for profit.
I would love one. $$$$$???? Any chance of you guys putting my 1978 original one owner Minimoog D model back to original condition? Everything is there just not up to what it use to sound like.The Moog is so wonderful to play just open your ears and mind and have at it even my mini always amazes me. :D
Due to heavy TH-cam compression, I don't think it really matters.
this video's a bit quiet though....any filters we can tweek to fix that Moog people?
"We always thought of technology as this linear progression..." ....but it's actually a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey .....stuff.
Good thing Arturia makes the Moog Modular plugin for us mere mortals hehe
15:23 is that a Werkstatt I see on that small table behind him?
Dam, i don't like feeling this materalistic, but i need one. If i ever would have new car money, i would not get a new car. I'm afraid
fucking inspiring music, makes me wanna dump everything and build modular synths and smoking weed
+ShaftsOf Light Amen to that
12:18 is THE synthesis of modular synthesis
Forbidden Planet Movie ~ Amazing Sounds 1956 ?