UVB-76 has been a great deal of inspiration for musicians around the world, resulting many beautiful tracks. If you think there is room for more, please check the link what was just sent to me today by a good old friend Margus, who' s one of the greatest analog synth fans I know and runs a after-life site for old Roland synths (http://www.wolzow.com/)
Its a pledge by Chris Reynolds (a.k.a. Jazzsequence) for rising $900 for releasing an album inspired from listening to the shortwave and UVB-76 in particular. As far as I understood, the money is going to be spent on couple of cool gizmos helping to make a music in a specific way, but its a reasonable cause nevertheless as far as I can tell :)
I did not write a piece of music inspired by the UVB-76, however it helped me to restyle my ugly SH-201 synthesizer. Arguably one of the worst looking synths ever made. :lol:
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Last week, after seeing some supposedly UVB-76 bunker photos I got inspired to restyle it.
Unfortunately I'm not crafted enough to rebuild it from scratch, I cannot move anything, I can only replace knobs, paint stuff or cover things up.
So I tried to teach myself some Illustrator and Photoshop skills and this is what I've got so far. I (re)named it the Bahn UVB-76...
If you have any suggestions please let me know!
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3425649/Bahn-UVB-76-style-5.jpg[/img]
One word - BEAUTIFUL!!
ReplyDeleteAah, and suggestion .. If you happen to own synth like that, making some UVB-76 or other radio/technology inspired music would be due :) Its a cool synth (allthough I shall agree with the ugly part ...) for making such kind of beat!
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