SONIC TALK Podcasts

Sonic TALK 452 - Glasto, Woofers and Chips

With Glastonbury just around the corner we talk festivals and live broadcast, the 80 speaker noise violation in NY, Steve Meade Designs - phonebook ripping subwoofers (in a van), and one of the Curtis ships - 3340 is being remade.

Sonic TALK 451 - Reaktor Blocks, MIDI i/f, Synclavier V

We start with an homage to the AKG 451, then on to the iConnectivity MIO MIDI interfaces, Reaktor Blocks 1.2 and Softubes Modular release, the elusive GDR Subharchord, performing outside or in unusual spaces, Arturia Synclavier V - and a word about Gaz's upcoming Glastonbury naked gig...

Sonic TALK 450 - Obsecenely Bottom Endy

We talk about the recent German court ruling on the use of Kraftwerk's Metal on Metal sample - they lost to artistic freedom, Filenaming and versions, what do you do? Moog Model D resissue, and generally bottom end especially in a live situation, then we take a look at Pharrell's reaction to maggie Rogers track at NYU Clive Black Institute student show and tell, and reflect on what its like to be in that situation

Sonic TALK 449 - Geert Bevin Moog iOS Developer

Sonic TALK 448 - Dude Where's My Radiohead Music?

Kode80 has been experimenting with some 3D visualisations (7:13), his work sparks a conversation on where this is going in relation to music, James Pinkerstone's terrifying discovery that iTunes Music subscription has wiped 122GB of music date from his drive (23:20), Radiohead Moon Shaped Pool tops the charts (33:40), Aaron Hozman and the NASA acoustic chamber at NASA's Sandusky Ohio facility (46:55).

Sonic TALK 447 - Tomita and 60 years of Top Fives

After hellos and catchups, we talk Koka's electro mechanical beat machine 2 (10:35), then after the sad loss of Isao Tomita, we talk about his enormous influence and innovation in electronic music (17:00), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's performance at Superbooth spawns a discussion on the challenges of modular music construction (34:10), then the Polygraph How Music Taste Evolved infographic (52:40).

Sonic TALK 446 - Moog Model 15 and Dopamine Headphones

We start with a look at the new Moog Model 15 iPad app 9:42, quite a big step forward in what iOS code can achieve, iZotope Competition 28:45, then the super-addictive SoundGym.co audio training games 30:58 , Live at the Necropolis Lords of the Synth from Adult Swim 39:32, the rather unconventional Nervana stimulating headphones - which raised over $600k on Indiegogo 46:50 and the revitalised Tempest firmware development 56:36, favourite drum machines 1:04:54

Sonic TALK 445 - Prince Stories from Paisley Park

We of course, talk Prince - with his passing last week, most of the panelist have been reflecting on his creative works, indeed Marc Doty is an ex employee at Paisley Park in Minneapolis, plus a few great anecdotes from Robbie and Dave, then we talk about the new Electronic Voyager Bob Moog documentary, then Hans Zimmer's orchestral arena tour.

Sonic TALK 444 - Circuit, Wiggle and Shrew Liver

We start this week with tales from All Tomorrow's Parties - where Gaz played with Charlotte Church using the Industrial Radio MIDI Bass, then on to Novation's massive Circuit firmware updates, Apple drop support for Quicktime on PC at the same time as vulnerabilities are found, 2nd Sense Audio - Wiggle a Waveshaping software instrument, how to stop your cat biting sub woofers and other studio fixes, Ikea furniture, and Ty gets something off his chest..

Sonic Talk 443 - Superbooth and MusikMesse

After a couple of weeks break, where we were in Berlin for Superbooth16 - a brand new synth focussed show and MusikMesse, we're back. Joined by Non Eric from Musotalk.de who was also at both shows, we discuss the events and surrounding topics. We play out with a few highlights from the Sonicstate Live @Bristol event last month.