Music Porn

March 4, 2007 4:11 PM

Music Porn- Synthesizer sex.
posted by loquacious (16 comments total)

Interesting... though, remind me never to borrow anyone's earphones again. No telling where they've been.
posted by CKmtl at 4:34 PM on March 4, 2007

Electronic Masturbation!
posted by BeerFilter at 4:38 PM on March 4, 2007

I've seen a Beam played. It was at a Free Jazz show, and the only uncontrollable reactio I had was the need to forceably remove the player from the instrument and show him how it needed to be played. I'm fairly certian there's music trapped in the instrument, yearning to be free, but the only sounds that guy could make resembled a cat trapped in an oil drum.
posted by lekvar at 4:48 PM on March 4, 2007

...but the only sounds that guy could make resembled a cat trapped in an oil drum.

And not only that, but "Cat Trapped in Oil Drum" is one of the most readily available presets on any decent synth nowadays. I use it all the time.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:54 PM on March 4, 2007

Ah, is that what it's called? I think of it as the 'rending metal' patch on the Access Virus. I hear that all the time these days from groups as different as VNV Nation and Thomas Dolby. Everyone seems to have one of those things...
posted by bitmage at 5:30 PM on March 4, 2007

Actually, I lied. I hate presets, and I use an actual cat in an actual oil drum all the time. Just don't let the Animal Welfare/Humane Society people know, OK? If they take away my cat, my promising career in music will come to a screeching halt.

Hey, "screeching"... that gives me an idea for a new track.

*heads for studio*
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:00 PM on March 4, 2007

...I use an actual cat in an actual oil drum all the time.
Now, is that the Martin Pre-War Cat-In-A-Drum, the U.S.-made 1978 Fender reissue, or one of the newer Japanese knock-offs? 'Cause, really, if you're even going to bother you need to get vintage.
posted by lekvar at 6:50 PM on March 4, 2007

Remember to declaw the cat for a softer, more muted sound. Almost as good as a little lowpass filter, though the actual screeching will remain.
posted by b1tr0t at 8:07 PM on March 4, 2007

I find that a half-hour in the dryer for kitty knocks the sawtooth down and I get something much more like a string pad. Its Angelic.
posted by isopraxis at 8:22 PM on March 4, 2007

so I fired up a couple of synths and played her some snatches

Heh.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 8:33 PM on March 4, 2007

Somebody watched that scene in Barbarella with the orgasm machine a few too many times...
posted by jonp72 at 9:04 PM on March 4, 2007

This myth is alot sexier than the brown note myth. But the brown note is waaaay funnier to think about.

Wouldn't this be called the Pink Note?
posted by fenriq at 10:38 PM on March 4, 2007

Wouldn't this be called the Pink Note?

Thank you for never disappointing me, fenriq. I was waiting for that.
posted by loquacious at 10:49 PM on March 4, 2007

do you guys prefer hard synths or soft synths?

Also, didn't Howard Stern prove this?
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 6:19 AM on March 5, 2007

The gooey note.
posted by algreer at 1:30 PM on March 5, 2007

Thanks for not crediting the original.
posted by pemungkah at 5:17 PM on March 5, 2007