The First - Ever Electrified Piano!! AnalogSuicde.com at L.A. Modernism 2008.
Here's more from mine & Maf's adventures at The L.A. Modernism Exhibit in Santa Monica this past weekend...
The primary reason for our travels from our quaint Los Feliz village to "the Westside" (quite an effort for an Angeleno) was to create this post featuring Dan McPharlin's lovely batch of "freshly baked" miniature cardboard synths - but little did we know that more loveliness was waiting around the corner at the Off The Wall Antiques booth...
We were pleasantly rendered speechless by this beautiful instrument looming ghostlike and glorious in the corner of the crowded exhibition hall - the Story & Clark Storytone Electric Piano!
Designed for the 1939 World's Fair by John Vassos and manufactured by Story & Clarke & RCA - Victor, this is most definitely the Jean Harlow of all musical instruments (for the Norma Desmond of all musical instruments, click here and here)!
Many thanks to Dennis Clark at Off The Wall Antiques in Los Angeles!
via tarabusch on YouTube:
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A Portishead Morning....
It's not often that I spend more than 5 minutes in the morning without my beloved coffee cup, but this beautiful Portishead footage found its way to me - and boy am I falling heavily for their glistening latest album!
How about this? A sweet bit of gearspotting and the incomparable voice of Beth Gibbons is quite a lovely way to shake the day open, so have a look at "The Rip" by Portishead.
via saqibakascarface on YouTube.
More in a bit - I have some lovely new movies on the way for you!
Dan McPharlin's Cardboard Synths!! In The Flesh!!
First of all, many thanks to the mighty mighty Matrixsynth for this post announcing the LA Modernism exhibit featuring Dan McPharlin's brilliant miniature cardboard synthesizers!
This past Sunday, we raced down to Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to catch Dan's wonderful creations in the flesh! After weaving our way through countless booths stuffed to the gills with mouth-watering mid century and art deco furniture and artwork, we spied the sweet, miniature synthesizers in Lawrence Converso's booth, Converso Mod.
Have a peek! "Believe you me", they are quite a treat. Dont forget to check out more of Dan's work on his website and his Flickr site!!!
via tarabusch on YouTube; the music, "Can You Read Me?" is taken from the album "Pilfershire Lane" by Tara Busch :
More to come from the LA Modernism exhibit including the first-ever electric piano by RCA!!! I'm not joking, it'll bring tears to your eyes. Stay tuned......
P.S. - Also posted by Matrixsynth yesterday:
"...Hand-made cardboard model by Dan McPharlin. Produced for Esquire magazine.View the full set."
Tara Busch selected along with Blonde Redhead, Bat For Lashes and Coco Rosie for Manimal Vinyl's tribute to The Cure!
Here's what's brewing & baking in our Willy Wonka factory of a studio (The Gene Wilder version, of course) this month:
I will be taking on "Let's Go To Bed"! This will be available on the marvelous L.A. based label, Manimal Vinyl Records.
Here's the Cure's original via Hemoalsangrante on YouTube...
And of course a bit of Roger O'Donnell with his Moog family, via worldsfair on YouTube:
....my inspiration for my version? This. More in a bit, including new flicks!
"Totally Wired" ! The Wonderful New Analog-u-mentary...
Sent our way by documentarian/ analog-u-mentarian ( do you like my new word?) Niamh Aher, here is the trailer for her upcoming documentary,"Totally Wired".It is about "Andreas Schneider and his infamous analogue store in Berlin, Germany, called 'Schneider's Buero'".
In his own words:
"...The documentary explores the relationship between the boutique builders and gear - lusty musicians who make Schneider's Buero an interface in its own right.
The documentary features some heavy inventors like Wowa Cwejmann, Dieter Doepfer and Ken Maccbeth as well as musicians like Ricardo Villalobos, Jessica Rylan, Daniel Miller and Junior Boys. "
Trailer for 'Totally Wired' from niamhahern on Vimeo.
There are some lovely tidbits here on their blog including this life - encompassing quote by Ken Macbeth:
"I want to make noise, lots of noise, all kinds of noise, every kind of noise. Possible.".
— Ken MacBeth, Inventor
Agreed.
I loved the snippet of the soundtrack by the by composer Maho Masuda as well. Nice use of the Vermona Retroverb!
Wow- looks like we should make an AnalogSuicide.com trip to see Andreas Schneider's "analogue Oz" of a boutique!