We will constantly update this page as manufacturers and artists confirm. Tickets will be available in the following weeks.
TRASH_AUDIO is hosting Synth Event 12 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL on Sunday July 29th 2012. We’ll have a Synth Market with manufacturers during the day where they will be offering their wares at special prices, and later in the evening we’ll have modular performances.
Performances
Alessandro Cortini
Richard Devine
Lichens (Rob Lowe)
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Synth Market Manufacturers
4ms
Gear-Track
The Harvestman
Make Noise
STG Soundlabs
Tip Top Audio
Topobrillo
A quick teaser of the Echophon and its freeze function. Audio is sampled into the Echophon’s internal buffer when freeze mode is engaged. Depth, Pitch, and Echo can be used to manipulate the sound.
An evolving distorted pattern utilizing every parameter on the Make Noise Soundhack Echophon. The Tip Top Audio 808 series modules are sequenced by 4ms’s SCM and run through Doepfer’s 101-3 and 137-1 which are being sequenced by the Z8000 and MATHS. A feedback loop from the Echophon is being fed into the Harvestman Piston Honda’s wavetable distortion. A BRAINS expanded Pressure Point and Double Andore are being used to sequence parameters on the Echophon creating a swirl of pitched delays that squeal and murmur alongside the pattern.
An overview video running through basic Echophon functions will be posted later this week…
Low-fidelity recording techniques have been a big part of black metal for much of its history, and as a consequence, the majority of the stuff sounds just fine on dinky laptop speakers—one of the few things any black-metal band has in common with Katy Perry. In recent years, as the style’s rigid orthodoxy has collapsed, black-metal artists have been making records that demand (and deserve) a higher-quality playback experience. One notable local example is one-man band Surachai. He’s a full-on audiophile, albeit an audiophile whose instincts are considerably more avant-garde than those of the average sound geek: he contributes to the tech-Âoriented online experimental-music zine Trash Audio and sells a 1.2 gigabyte collection of sampled vinyl runout grooves compiled from his record collection. To No Avail—two ten-plus-minute compositions labeled “Side •” and “Side ••”—is a magnificent-Âsounding album, pouring from the speakers in huge, heaping masses of intricately layered guitars, programmed drums, and deeply wicked vocal shrieks, juiced up here and there with strings and analog synthesizers. If the blastbeats and howling-demon vocals don’t scare you off, you’ll find it a beautiful and richly rewarding listen. Surachai released the record digitally last fall, but the vinyl edition only recently came out. It’s worth picking up not only for the improved sound but also to better appreciate the fantastic cover art.
To No Avail has finally arrived! 180 gram vinyl housed in a beautiful gatefold cover laced with artwork by Sarah Sitkin. It’ll be the best looking album in your collection.
The shirts have arrived and are better than expected.
They will be shipped the week of 4/23/12. More than half are already reserved!
Male sizes S/M/L/XL/XXL.
Prices include shipping: US $19, Canada $23, everywhere else $25.
If you want one, e-mail info@surachai.org with your shirt size and location.
To No Avail vinyl will be available in a month or so.
Surachai – To No Avail
“Experimental†black metal that’s pretty straightforward except for the strings at the end of a song. Not bad, but it’d be boring if it weren’t so short, so . . . kudos? — A.L.
These will be available mid-late April.
E-mail: info@surachai.org with your shirt size to be listed. First come, first serve.
Male sizes S/M/L/XL/XXL. Shipping to US – $19, Canada $23, everywhere else $25.
