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Not mentioned: E-mu Emulator boards. I had a crash course in Z80 when repairing one.

Endless joys of the Open Reel Ensemble and reel-to-reel performance - CDM Create Digital Music Japan's Open Reel Ensemble has been active continuously since 2009, with collaborations from Issei Miyake to Ryuichi Sakamoto. But there's a special magic that some of their most experimental performa...

Beautiful use of these machines as kinetic instruments. Have you seen some of this? Probably. All of it? I think not! They've been busy...

Severed Heads did a lot with tape loops in their early work but I suppose that was a more ‘traditional’ approach. Nice article!

My latest ambient work for Mortality Tables is a long form meditation on the concept of impermanence using Mat Smith’s touching childhood recordings singing with his late father, James. 🖤

thanks for the listen 🙏

Peter Gabriel’s melting face cover for his I don’t remember single.

Uh oh …

Synergy Cords album sleeve by Hipgnosis feat a naked man wrapped in a golden light beam on an ominous city street backdrop at night.

One of my fave albums by Synergy aka Larry Fast.

Album sleeve art by Hipgnosis (I wonder if Sleazy (coil) had anything to do with this one) and track titles assisted by Peter Gabriel - looking dapper above. #electronicmusic #synthsky

A clipping from a 1989 Smash Hits magazine featuring The Vince Clarke Story, a brief article mentioning his projects with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, and Erasure.

A little bit on the inimitable synth legend, Vince Clarke from a 1989 Smash Hits. Moral of the story: Don't Give UP :)

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Electric Energy

Transmission #531 from GPS III-SV05 (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Electric Energy

Had this happening in my town last year - very creepy.

Robert Duvall headshot of his portrayal as future city resident, THX 1138.

RIP THX 1138

Point of No Return - an avant-garde mix with wonders by
@jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social @castlesinspace.bsky.social @thehomecurrent.bsky.social @subexotic.bsky.social @keithseatman.bsky.social wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/p...

This was a pleasure to work on. It was made using Mat's field recordings of his personal train journeys and narrated by Nero's Tongue. The track embodies the anxious joy and later exasperation of travel - an analogy for life/death.

The galaxy designated MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected, spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument. Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us. Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universe’s story.

News from the edge of the visible universe:

JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.

(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

a very small me standing in front a large banyan tree.

The forest is a college, each tree a university.

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is significant news for ...

Terrible musical related news (the rest has been terrible for some time, but you don’t need me to tell you) cdm.link/ni-insolvency/

Chronique disque - A New Line (Related) : Crewe Away EP Lors de notre chronique d'A Quarterly Update On The Sadness, publié il y a un peu moins d'un an, nous relevions que les morceaux les plus courts (…)

Less than a year after our last review of an album by @anewlinerelated.bsky.social , he’s back with a 4-track EP, each piece with its own distinct style, beautifully sequenced. Once again, it’s available on Sound In Silence.
#electronicmusic
www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...

BIG fan of your work 🖤

Picture of the teleharmonium from 1907 a large electronic musical instrument.

Synth history post of the day :: the Teleharmonium, the world’s first significant electronic musical instrument - late 1800s.

Image from Simon Crab’s astounding 120years.net

#synthsky @synthsky.bsky.social

Battles "My Machines" by Daniels YouTube video by Creators

The stairs bit reminded me of the epic video for Battles w/Gary Numan youtu.be/pkgQ88G8Hj8?...

Reminds me of the early Helmholtz sound synthesizer :: 120years.net/helmholtz-so...

Thx!

Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean A nuclear bunker is hanging off the edge of a crumbling cliff face that's been eroded by the constant assault of the sea.

Just days away from a sad demise.

Here’s the datasheet if you’d like to have a go at one :: www.experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/Datashee...

Gnarly.

😆

Thx. Mr. Ellard was on here at one time :(

I think what I love about samplers is the ability to take bits of sound from the real world / other gear / sources of inspiration and use them as nontraditional constructive elements in musical pieces.

'The Daemonus Scratchbox' My DIY synth based on a SN76477 "complex sound generator" chip produced by Texas Instruments (TI). The chip came to market in 1978 and was used in early video games such as Space Invaders.

'The Daemonus Scratchbox' My DIY synth based on a SN76477 "complex sound generator" chip produced by Texas Instruments (TI). The chip came to market in 1978 and was used in early video games such as Space Invaders.

Is it even a synth if it doesn’t look like this?

#synthsky @synthsky.bsky.social