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Ems syntyhi aks improv 1972 - 1973. wonderful, strange + quirky electronics - an absolute 1st class collection of vintage sounds/recordings KEITH SEATMAN. ALAN SUTCLIFFE - LIKENESS (ACM conf. Alan sutcliffe - anna-ann 3. Download. Alan sutcliffe - be-ann 2. ALAN SUTCLIFFE - ANNA-ANN 4 extract. Alan sutcliffe - be-ann 3. Alan sutcliffe - slideshow. Please support the artist and purchase the single/album directly from Bandcamp. com and adhere to our Terms of Service.
Most notable for its patch pin matrix, its functions and internal design are similar to the VCS 3 synthesiser, also made by EMS. EMS is still run by Robin Wood in Cornwall, and in addition to continuing to build and sell new units, the company repairs and refurbishes EMS equipment.
It was then that we were contracted by 20th Century Fox to provide computer graphics for Ridley Scott's ‘Alien’. Alan's key contribution was the terrain model for the landing site for the Nostromo space ship. We had a styrofoam model made and Alan digitised that for the 3D representation on the flight deck computer screens as the spaceship landed.
The cost at that time was £6,500. The last unit built by EMS was number 30. Afterwards, one final unit was built by Datanomics, who bought assets from EMS when the company folded in 1979. The redesigned unit was sold to Gabinete de Música Electroacústica, Cuenca, Spain.
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The Synthi A and Synthi AKS models are virtually the same electronic instrument as the EMS VCS3, except that the Synthi models are housed in a thin plastic briefcase for easy portability. The Synthi A was also commonly known as the "Portabella". The AKS model (pictured below) adds a 256-step on-board monophonic digital sequencer and a 30-note touchplate keyboard (activated by the 50 Hz-hum in our fingers). The Synthi A was released in 1971, two years after the launch of the VCS3 (The AKS came out in 1972). It should be noted that the case mounting of the AKS can be very precarious. EMS also produced the monsterous Synthi 100 in 1971.
Jean Michel Jarre featured Synthi AKS on Oxygène and Equinoxe and has one for Oxygene Live in your living room (2007). Pink Floyd used the synthesiser to create the electronic riff of the track "On the Run" and to play the solo of "Any Colour You Like", both from the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook refer to Synthi AKS in the name of their collaboration album The Dark Side of the Moog VIII: Careful With the AKS, Peter. In 2013, a Japanese artist Yoshio Machida made an album "Music from the SYNTHI". This album was made by only Synthi AKS.
