I played a theremin (that same Moog theremin acutally) in a band concert once. They're hard to learn. It's so odd playing something that you don't touch. From my experience, if you play a string instrument, that's the best thing to know before playing theremin.

Funky stuff.

I see a hammer dulcimer in the background. But the main instrument, the Dan Bau, seems to be an analog theremin of sorts? Is this where Moog got the idea?

Great Googaly Moogly

Moog and Mellotron.....ahhhhhhhh analog!!!!

This reminds me a LOT of the electro-acoustic band I was in back in high school. Sure it was fun, but it got really frustrating after a few years. We had all this kick ass synth gear, with SO much potential- Korg MS20, Vocoder and Sequencer, Moog MG-1, a half dozen drum machines, guitars, clarinet, two dozen effects pedals, microphones, probably close to a hundred different found sound percussion instruments (aka junk, except junk that happened to sound cool when you hit it- for example an old HD that was probably about 15 inches in diameter), cords everywhere, a couple of PCs, an Atari ST... it was such an AMAZING studio, and we just went every week and played with it. I have probably close to 100 hours of recordings of us screwing around with that gear.

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And for all of that potential- nobody seemed to be interested in actually making "real" music. It was "experimental" which seemed to be mostly formless noodling.

Anyway, the technology in this video really should be in the hands of mashup artists. Hell, any proper DJ, really. I think it would be good to have kind of as a plug-in to your mixer. Ready, set, mix- "ok, the new track is in and three, two, one- FREAK IT UP!" flip the switch and unleash this madness for a few bars.

Actually!! Take Track A that is playing, and use the freakulator to mimic it with sounds from Track B- slowly mix that in, then increase the grain size until it just sounds like a weird chop of the track you're about to play, then BOOM- let them have it with Track B.

This would totally be awesome to play with.

Up vote for Moog.
Must say, LB- pushing the envelope for nerd/geek postings. Seems Ya' love to bask in it; stale, musty air of a dim computer room, empty cans a' energy drinks and happy meal containers strewn about. How many cats? Five?

Up vote 4 Moog!

....the very idea,..some metalheads are in a quandry about Lyle Lovett's purpose, ..the discriminating Mantovani listener, who used to wonder what Sunday afternoons were going to be like without Lawrence Welk, now sit around in their polyester jumpers, on plastic covered furniture, wondering...."What is the point of a Man, who looks like a woman, singing a song about making love to a vampire?".....perception, huh, marinara...You Moog Man....

Jesus christ gorgonheap. I'm 33 and I love this, and I used to have tons of Moog on LP.

....the Moog with take that mediocre riff, and give it that thing, with that thing....only Moog....my Godfather has a Mellotron, and the box it came in,like- new...(Obsessive-Compulsive tendencies),

Oh. My. God.

This is the most amazing technology I've seen in ages.

It definitely reminds me of some of the samples on the MOTM page: Check out Robert Rich's complex glorp patch at http://www.synthtech.com/users.html

This is clearly the same sort of modular synthesis, only using just these pucks instead of hundreds of tangled cables.

Oh I want one SO BAD!

This jam definitely brings me back to the days when I first started playing around with the Korg MS-20 and a sequencer and a MOOG MG-1, and a bunch of guitar pedals. Oh yes, noodling around with synth gear is the best.

I wish I could upvote+100!