Beautiful realtime demo of the RSF Polykobol II synth

The Polykobol II is a synthesizer analog polyphonic manufactured by RSF and marketed in 1983. It has 8 voices and a 61-key keyboard and a backup K7 integrated interface. Used by Jean-Michel Jarre and Lightwave, it was quite complex (more than 500 components including 3 microprocessors, Motorola 6809 ) and unstable, and was never fully developed. However, it was appreciated for its warm and powerful sound.

RSF filed for bankruptcy before closing completely.

A VST recreation of the Polykobol is available from Xils Lab

Eye of Sound: Those were the days: when the future wasn’t bright and dystopia was your daily bread; when apocalypse was just now and the winters cold as dead. Flower-power dreams withered, post-industrial gloom remained. Chris & Cosey’s rendez-vous is one with an era, a new stage in the history of gray when synth was to reign supreme paving Europe’s way to a new fantasy: the utopia of electric dreams. More details and videos available at ubu.com

The end of the world created in just 64 kilobytes. If you have a machine to run it, you can download the executable file here: pouet.net

All the numbers. All the laws. All the inventions. Thanks FrankJavCee !

VICE spends time with developer Alx Preston, who has battled serious heart conditions all his life, but achieved his dream of producing an adventure game in the spirit of the classic Zelda titles.

Buy ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ from Steam

Artist film-maker Luke Fowler and multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell discuss their collaborative project ‘Computers and Cooperative Music-Making’ (30 Oct 2015 – 07 Feb 2016), which examines the development of two early computer music languages, The Composers Desktop Project (CDP) and Hierarchical Musical Specification Language (HMSL).

“This video has been done to be seen in the “Videobox” an installation initiated by Thomas Isral and Jacques Urbanska. This installation is a box of 1 m by 2 m the lid is a projection screen. The viewer is alone lying down and watching the screen above him (less than a meter). The sound system surrounds the viewer.”Videobox” will be presented at various festivals.” – projet-percept.be

Directed by Hugo Arcier.
Music : Air “do the joy”

Mixing a track the proper way (p.s. the 4 band EQ that comes free with the desk )

1st place in pc 64k compo at Geeks can dance 2010 (File size is in fact only 30 kilobytes!). More information and to download for PC machines visit pouet.net

Robert Henke’s keynote presentation at Loop 2015 on dealing with the multitasking nature of modern music making, how to learn from machines, and the counter-intuitive yet undeniable value of failure as a driver of musical and technical innovation.