Writing electronic music may seem like an easy task at first. All who have tried have realised that there is a difference between writing a piece that sounds either amateurish or too commercial and creating something truly unique. Electronic music is supposed to be opening new horizons towards melodic and rhythmic structures that are not limited by physical properties of natural instruments and its musicians.
One can argue though, that the removal of all such intermediaries brings the composer a step closer to the ultimate barrier. Of course, we’re talking about inspiration. There are a plenty of audio samples and software packages out there, in fact maybe too many. Machines are increasingly fast and humans increasingly impatient which inevitably leads to a path where machines will be able to interface with the composer on almost an organic level and reward the musician with an instant result.
Unfortunately we’re not quite there yet and it will be some time until we reach that level. But let’s reflect on this exciting time where technology and science flourish and draw our inspiration from this dynamic and uplifting era.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC RADIO
Here are shortcuts to your favorite electronic music styles from one of the most prominent internet radio stations dedicated to electronic music DI.FM:
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and is made possible by two innovations: recreating in a computer both the real-world physics of a clarinet and the physics of a clarinet player.
When Analogik crew were just kids we all wondered about the future and what the world would be like in the 21 st century. Although flying cars are still in their most experimental stage, there is no teleportation or inter-stellar space travel, there are a few quite exciting things around that are gradually making their way into our lives. Some technologies have been on a slow evolutionary infiltration path and some… well, some have arrived with a bang!
FORUM HIGHLIGHTS
Lunar: "I don't really know how to describe my music ... Could anyone give me ideas and advice to push it forward a bit more?" CLICK HERE
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NEWS
It's time to introduce one of our commercial electronic music projects. This one is very interesting as for us there was no composition involved, but something completely different. Hypnosurf is a concept by Les Foster which essentially involves practice of hypnosis in order to improve one's focus, concentration and coordination skills. His first release is targeted at surfers; this is not a surprise as Les is an experience surfer himself. [ read more ]
The Coolest D'n'B Video... Ever!
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D'n'B: CHRIS.SU & JADE @ StepInn 12 July 2008
Check out the latest gig gallery here. Event review coming soon!
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Mystery Song [Reason 4 | also available in mp3]
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Drum Machine Robot
Just click on the play above and enjoy. There are no words to describe our joy for finding this splendid little electronic creature whose aim in life is to find stuff and drum on it.
I have to praise you like I should...
When we read comments like this, all our hard work and keeping this website going seems well justified. We hope there are many more of you who find Analogik useful and inspirational when it comes to your electronic music journey. Thank you Excalibur!
Giant Stars - Flash animation that compares Earth and our closest star, the Sun to some of the largest stars in the known universe.
2211 [also available in mp3] - Tribal trance track improvisation, currently not fully sequenced. Heavy bass kick, manipulated guitar sounds like washed out future-tech sound with lovely tribal
tabla percussions.
Subtractor Track - Un sequenced track written completely in Subtractor, including drums, bass and the synth sound.
Written on 10 April 2008 by Analogik.
World loses one more electronic music pioneer
"Tristram Ogilvie Cary (born Oxford 14 May 1925, died Adelaide, Australia 24 April 2008) was a pioneering British composer. Cary was educated at Westminster School in London, England and is the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." is the famous quote by the author of the epic science fiction novels "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Rendezvous with Rama". Clarke has been an inspiration for many electronic music composers and virtually immortalised by his invaluable literature and scientific contributions.
German Content [ Deutsche ]
PHASE AUDIOPHILE FIVE
"Phase Audiophile, wie schon allein der Name sagt, ist das edelste was die Firma Phase Evolution zu bieten hat. Das System wird in einer schönen Holzkiste geliefert, welche einem beim Öffnen ein breites Grinsen im Gesicht verleiht: Neben den Tiefmittelton- und Hochtonchassis, sind vier Frequenzweichen und versilberte “oxygene-free” Kupferlitzen kabel beinhaltet." Review by: business hub
08 January 2008, England - Submitted by Business Directory:
Contemporary Art in London - The world's interactive art gallery.
12 January 2008, France - Submitted by Analogik:
Multiphonies 2008: GRM 50 Years Francois Bayle: Univers Nerveux + music by Jean-Francois Allouis, Christine Groult, others Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 116 avenue du Président Kennedy, Paris
http://www.ina.fr/actualites/rendez-vous/multiphonies.html
15 January 2008, Germany - Submitted by Car Hifi Angebote: Systems Quartet - Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, Adam Linson, Paul Lytton
Improvisations with acoustic instruments and electronics B-Flat, Rosenthaler Strasse 13, Berlin-Mitte http://b-flat-berlin.de/
16 January 2008, USA - Submitted by Industriefirmen: Wordless Music: Music by John Adams, Gavin Bryars, Jonny Greenwood
Wenesday, January 16 & Thursday, January 17, 8pm Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue & West 60th Street. Email contact for the event: words@wordlessmusic.org
18 January 2008, Germany - Submitted by Analogik:
Jean-Claude Eloy: Gaku-No-Michi 7pm talk by composer, 8pm concert
Music Room of the University of Cologne, Hauptgebäude, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Köln erbe@uni-koeln.de
20 January 2008, Spain - Submitted by Analogik:
Barry Schrader's Lost Atlantis MEDITERRÀNIA(ES) Exhibit Centre d'Art la Panera, Pl. de la Panera, 2, Lleida [ mailto:apanera@paeria.cat ] http://www.lapanera.cat/home.php?op=10&module=programacio&cad =2&item=34
15 February 2008, India - Submitted by best western hotel munich: CeC & CaC 2008: 3rd Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave
Lawrence Casserley, Curtis Bahn, Tomie Hahn, many others
February 15-18 India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/ceccac08/
Annalise Walliker - January 05, 2008 12:00am, Australia
Emergency services officials have asked the organisers of the troubled Kryal Castle raves to foot the bill for dealing with drug users and overdoses. The request comes as organiser Ritchie McNeill, director of Totem Industries, urged drug users to take ecstasy rather than GHB at his raves, saying it caused fewer overdoses. Mr McNeill's comments, posted on a dance music website, have outraged the Ballarat Base Hospital, which treated more than two dozen overdoses from the last two Kryal Castle raves.
Reader Comment:
Techno of Vukovar 11:02pm January 17, 2008 Like someone mentioned, banning drugs and alcohol does only half the job. I believe that organisers of raves found liable for drug encouragement and lack of control of illegal substances in their events should be not only made to pay the cost of the emergency treatment but also for the cost of drug rehab programmes to help the kids with the source of the problem, not just the addiction.
Via: NEWS.COM.AU
Classic astroturfing is the practice of disguising an orchestrated campaign as a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion. Some say the pharmaceutical industry's funding of patient support groups in the US comes perilously close to this ( New Scientist , 27 October 2006, p 18). These groups offer patients information about available treatments and campaign for them to be paid for by publicly funded health insurance programmes. Pharmaceutical companies would clearly have much to gain by filtering their marketing messages through such organisations.
Source: NewScientist - "The word: Astroturfing - 10 February 2007 " (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325902.300-the-word-
astroturfing.html)
OPTRONIX vs Maxx Klaxon (Reason 2.5) - This is a Remix of the song "Internationale 2000" By Maxx Klaxon. It is my current entry in a Remix contest. The original can be heard at http://klaxon.tv/i2k_remix_contest . Rather than a Re-mix I have actually re-written the whole track to sound like a new song, using only minimal samples from the original, and some of the vocals. Please feel free to Enter the contest your self, it ends on July 29th, 2006. I will let the file do the rest of the explaining for me. Enjoy!! Refills Used: Impulse, In Full Effect.
SUMMER NIGHT 2072 Peek into the year 2072 with this slightly melancholic track. Minimal, clean and well balanced for your listening enjoyment, tweaking, inspiration or your next multimedia presentation. Overall a very mature loop suitable for techno veterans. [ sample wav ]
CONSTRICTOR Just another fine techno loop, mapped to your midi controller knobs - ideal for live performances and jamming.
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NEUTRINO THEME Futuristic sounding techno loop. Clean four stage beat and a well tuned malstrom synthesizer will make a good base for your next track. [ sample wav ]
LOONAR EXPRESS Fine techno loop with futuristic mood. It uses two voice samples as an illustration. Feel free to play with filters and track arrangement. Refills used: 109dB The DNB, e|A - Art of Voiceover, NuHouse, Vince Clarke, Lucky Bastard [sample mp3]
DODECAHEDRON Very hard schranz track with a punchy cowbell. Completely un sequenced but mapped to standard midi controls + PC keyboard.
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ORIENT 2100 Pleasant and balanced electronic break loop with retro synth sound and futuristic feeling. [ wav loop ]
Quote of the month
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music". Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
Analogik team is gearing up for some unbelivable trips this year. One of them being an expedition to South Georgia (Antarctica). Our representatives Greg and Tatjana Petrovic (Brisbane, Australia) will come back late this year with some amazing photos and videos of their expedition.
We're also planning tours and travel to Costa Rica with Hotel Buchen Colibri UmweltReisen, the tour operator is specialized on nature tours worldwide. Costa Rica is the ideal destination for individual tours to the national parks and reserves. This small country is famous for its biodiversity in fauna and flora. In addition to the natural richness, the people are friendly and the beaches are beautiful! But most importantly there is a developed electronic music scene with a wonderful ethnic fusion.
For many years Russian Federation has been an isolated economy. Ministry of Culture, for example, wouldn't allow import of foreign instruments and Soviet musicians at the time didn't have a musical instrument that would offer capabilities and sounds of the equipment available to the rest of the world. This had triggered creation of a completely new and unique instrument. Polivoks was designed by an engineering team lead by Vladimir Kuzmin from the Urals Vector Company later built by Formanta Radio Plant in the early 80's. First commercially available Polivoks was sold in 1982 with the last unit sold in 1990. Polivoks is one of the most popular vintage synths today because of its history and extraordinary industrial look. Many consider its sound capabilities to be comparable to a MiniMoog. [ read more ]
Online Shopping: Electronics & More
Check out a neat online electronics store abt.com , an online division of a long running family business which started in the sixties selling radios and small electronics.
MIDI controller research project
Between 2003 - 2004 Analogik has been involved in development of a MIDI controller device that will give audio engineers physical control over various PC software synthesis ers such as Reason and Rebirth.
Note: This is a research project only and is no longer in development. Credits: Paul Harvey: Electronic Engineering, System Design, Programming & Dejan Petrović: Multimedia, 3D & Concept Design.
Analogik Articles a collection of interesting and informative articles in field of electronic music, multimedia, digital arts and many more topics.
Blu-ray Disc Format (via blu-ray forum)- Over the past couple of years, a battle has been brewing between the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, to determine which one will become the defacto standard format for high capacity disks. For those who remember, it is reminiscent of the battle a couple of decades ago between the VHS and Beta video tapes.
Robot as a superstar? -
Asimo is a robot. Its makers at Honda claim the inspiration came from the legendary fictional character Astroboy and its name is for Advanced Step in I nnovative MObility.
The "Mountain" ad was a part of PlayStation® new "fun, anyone?" brand campaign. As always PlayStation® manages to stay in touch with their audience and customers in a way that Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds and other giants could only imagine. While everyone else is trying to be cool and hip, PlayStation® actively seeks and attempts to tap into all the possible wavelengths of the youth today. Needles to say - their success in this field is immense.
German Techno - Who is Marusha? She was born on 18 November 1966 in Nurenberg, made Berlin her home town, and without exaggeration she is the world`s most famous female DJ.
Science Behind Electronic Music - Electronic music can be divided into two broad technical categories: analogue and digital.
Yes, we’ve heard of these terms many times but what is the difference between the two?
Avoiding Cliché Themes in Electronic Music - Apart from the obvious reasons (lack of creativity and commercially safe danceable material) there are software and hardware considerations.
Analysis of Consumer Behaviour Online
This report will outline the most relevant behavioural characteristics of online consumers and examine the ways they find, compare and evaluate product information.
An ever changing and evolving entity of sound
The idea is; some how creating machines that will produce an eternity of sound that is always different. No more albums or songs! It will be a machine you must fuel and modify. Once you turn it on it will do what you built it to do.
Ror-Shak - Deep - Album review by Analogik
”Deep” is artistic and enjoyable throughout its full length – no track skipping or fast-forwarding was necessary. Collaboration of the two unlikely partners, DB and DJ Stakka, has been most fruitful leaving another jewel in the colourful panorama of contemporary electronic music.
HrastProgrammer
Now, here is something different. HrastProgrammer has brought us back to the original concepts of electronic music with minor outside influences and his free authoring spirit.
First contact with electronic music
Human brain stores an infinite array of environmental properties such as sound, shape, color and smell. Often, these are associated with a specific time reference and then lost in a cu-de-sac of dormant memory.
Album Review: Musetta
MUSETTA disk has just arrived, nicely wrapped in a cute- artwork cover. What can I expect, a sugary happy hard core or nu nrg perhaps? I pressed the play button and started writing something and then… ‘Ophelia's Song' started…
World Traveler Adventures is a story about a few devoted artists and their brave mission to deliver electronic music to Bosnia, India and Africa. This is a film that no electronic music lover should miss.
Ogi Gee Cash was born in 1975 in Belgrade, Serbia. He has been DJing for twenty years and producing high-quality house music for almost nine years in which he has had nearly 150 releases both vinyl and digital. His first progressive release was "Fullbite Session ep" for Minimal Records back in 2001 and was hugely supported by all the top DJs on the globe. Due to his outstanding music production, three major compilations came along: Layo&Bushwacka "All Night Long" with the track Funky Misbehaviour (2003), Saeed&Palash with Beatcox (2004) and Can Costa "Proton Music" with Soul Food (2006).
Being the first Dj to establish progressive house in South-Eastern Europe, he reached the heights of his career which culminated during his residency in "Contrast", the first underground club in this part of Europe (Novi Sad, 1997-2000) and his ongoing residency in the famous "Underground" club in Belgrade (since 2001). Ogi's enormous creativity resulted in numerous releases for the well-known labels, such as: Proton, Existence, Baroque, Pure Substance, Carica, Pangea, Play, Segment, Minimal, Dirty Blue, Fiberline Audio, Balistic, Balkan Connection, Fullbite Session, Cue Tip Records and many more. Ogi is also the owner of his own label - Balkan Connection with producer mates Synchronized.
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instrument. Polivoks was designed by an engineering team lead by Vladimir Kuzmin from the Urals Vector Company later built by Formanta Radio Plant in the early 80's. First commercially available Polivoks was sold in 1982 with the last unit sold in 1990. Polivoks is one of the most popular vintage synths today because of its history and extraordinary industrial look. Many consider its sound capabilities to be comparable to a MiniMoog. [ 
Between 2003 - 2004 Analogik has been involved in development of a MIDI controller device that will give audio engineers physical control over various PC software synthesis ers such as Reason and Rebirth. 
