folktek in Biz Markie's studio

"Biz markies mixing room. Scene (for new VH-1 show) was shot with him at the board."

Folktek works; Luminist Garden on the speaker, Folktek plaque between, Drum Scape to the left of the mixing board

The Synergist by Arius Blaze

currently available;

The Synergist is a touch synth with 8 osc. and an 8 note polyphony - each tuned in correspondence to one another to create a full body of notes in addition to touch-based noise and time control. The oscillators tie into a delay, the timing of which controls the global pitch of the oscillation (when the time on the delay is lowered or raised, the frequency of all 8 oscillators are lowered or raised accordingly). Thge delay ranges from extremely tight to a longer approx. 2 seconds (getting gradualy dirty and grimier toward the lower end)

The oscillators can be feedback driven to create decay and the level of all touch points can be lowered or raised to either overload the delay completely or create more subtle background drone. This all helps to mix the level with any incoming sound as the an input signal can be sent into the 1/4" in jack allowing for processing of external sources. The selector switch switches between a variety of clean feedback and altered feedback (altered feedback being a more compressed droning sound)

The result is a piece capable of drone or synth lines, very nasty noise and dub massacre. The layout of the touch plate is designed to make it easily playable in a percussive manner. It's also laid out so that metal pieces (coins work well) can be placed between points to acts as switches for drone or connect points to alter the delay signal.

More info on the site and more to come; http://folktek.com/instruments/symbiotic/synergist

5 of these have been made and are currently available

Sounds and video to come. The piece shown here, however, is extremely similar in nature;

Interpol 2010/2011 Luminist Garden intro

This video link was just sent to me by Joseph Fraioli of jafboxsound...
"not too long ago i created the intro for interpols 2010/2011 tour using solely the luminist garden. thought you may wan to check it out. heres from a recent show, a little hard to hear with the crowd cheering:"

Luminist Garden played by Roy Harter

Roy Harter, sound designer extraordinaire at SkinnyMan in NYC playing his Folktek Luminist Garden

More on the Luminist Garden on the Folktek site; http://folktek.com/instruments/electrocoustic/luminist-garden

Modified omnichord om-36

Modified Omnichord available... Check details on site

Available for bidding via Ebay

New Bug X1

New Bug work available... Via Folktek Site

Check older bug posts here

Folktek Colection volume 1 demo

Carson McWhirter (Hella, The Advantage) performing on an enormous MIDI keyboard keyed in to a variety of patches from the Folktek Collection Vol. 1 for Kontakt.

The first patch is the "Classic Strum Velocity" instrument - a velocity sensitive multi-sample glitch beast (5-9 different glitches on each key) . Later demonstrated is the Achilles Tape Loop patch, a lo-fi time machine based instrument, and The Shrill Cops Eat Flowers preset based on a rare one-off instrument by Arius Blaze.

Hallucinogenic brain-feed visuals by Big Pauper. (http://djpz.com)
Original Patches also by Big Pauper.
Based on the instruments of Ben Houston and Arius Blaze.
(http://folktek.com)

The Expanded Luminist Garden

Built by Request - an expanded version of the folktek favorite - the luminist garden by Arius Blaze. Larger sound board, multiple pickups and layers of routable processing - delay from notated tight to about 1.5 seconds,
two selectable wave reverb/antique echo and attack filtration. The result is an extremely lush accoustic electronic environment.

Folktek Collection Volume 1 version 2

By strong request, we've created this version 2 of our folktek collection for those who choose not to delve into the kontakt-based vst environment. We re-recorded and arranged a massive collection of over 1.76gb of the best folktek sounds to be integrated however the player likes - whether it be with other programs such as Logic, Acid, Ableton, etc. or straight to hardware sampler.

The Folktek Collection Volume One by Big Pauper with Arius Blaze digs deep into the copper clad lines of electric and pulls fourth the nastiest, sweetest, most monstrously beautiful and torturous sounds of Folktek.

We spent a year compiling sounds and creating virtual instruments and another 6 months re-recording those sounds and arranging them in a coherent manner for easy use as kits, noises, glitches, sweet drone, sound scapes and playable pads.

Volume One features sounds intentionally designed for a broad range of artists and players - whether you're scoring a film and need something atmospherically innovative, a producer tired of the same old 808 sounds or looking to compliment them with something unusual, or a musician looking for an expressive new sound to "play".

You can find more details, have a listen, read the pdf or download version 2 here; folktek.com.

Bug XI

New Bug Work

Bug XI Housed in Antique hardwood case. See Website for bug sounds and Overview of Bug works.

. Also see all bug posts here.