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At our facility in Ghent, the Logos Foundation has
an electronic studio open to composers and composition students wanting
to explore the worlds of non-commercial experimental music and to
produce artistic work in the realms of electroacoustic music, sound
synthesis, electro-instrumental music and multimedia.
After the decline of the former IPEM studio (now devoted to musicology
research in the area of auditory perception, data mining, and applications
of neural nets), the Logos studio became the largest and most up
to date facility for electroacoustic music in Flanders. A part of
our studio equipment is installed in the facilities of the Ghent
Royal Conservatory (Kluyskensstraat, room L6), where our director,
Prof.Dr.Godfried-Willem Raes uses it in his composition teaching.
The largest studios however, are located at our prime facility:
Kongostraat 35 in Gent.
Following studio rooms are available:
1.- Studio room with a PC based multitrack digital editing system,
4 channel monitoring...
2.- Studio room equiped for silent audio recording, with spirit
folio mixing desk, 4/8 channel monitoring, video editing facilities,
sound generation equipment, CD burners, PC based multitrack digital
editing system. With direct lines to our tetrahedron concert hall.
The equipment list (by far not complete...) includes:
Digital Studio 1:
- Working desk with 4-channel RCF monitoring and dedicated PC
- 12-channel Soundscape recording and editing system (Wintel-PC-based)
- Studio server: Pentium MMX 233MHz, 64MByte ram, 2 HD, 4Gbyte
each, 21" Nokia monitor.
- Hewlett Packard CD-burner (PC)
- Marantz CD-burner (Stand Alone) CDR615
- Tascam CD-201 cd-player
- Tascam DA30 MkII DAT machine
- Tascam DA20 DAT
- Tascam Professional MiniDisc recorder/player
- Tascam DA88, 8 channel digital with 8 channel digital connectors
to Soundscape system, 8 balanced analog line inputs.
- Mackie SR24-4
- Soundcraft Spirit 24-8-2
- 2 Behringer MX2642
- Samson PL2404
- a few Mackie submixers
- Sony PCM converter
- Sony DAT 19"
- Sony DAT TCD10 - portable
- 2 Sony portable MD recorders
- 2 Aiwa portable DAT recorders
- DBX1 Compressor -Gate266
- 2 Alesis RA100 monitor amps
- EMU Proteus 2000
- 10 RCF Monitor 8 speakers
- Fireface interface
Digital Studio 2:
- Pentium workstation with Soundscape editing soft- and hardware
- Quadrophonic listening room and monitoring
- 4 Klein & Hummel monoblock amps
- Tascam DA30 MkII DAT machine
- Akai S2000 Sampler
- Lexicon sound processors
- Digitech sound processors
Specials for interactive applications and live-electronics:
- 4 PC-compatible (Intel based) laptop computers (Pentium up to Pentium III), many networked desktop systems (from Pentium 2 to the latest Pentium systems…)
- Permanent fast internet connections.
- Analog Devices DSP development systems (ADSP-2100), used for fast polyphonic pitch to midi conversion.
- Parallax Basic Stamp development systems
- 80x51 family development systems
- Holosound based invisible instruments
(sonar- and microwave versions) by dr.G.-W.Raes
- Optoson-devices
- contactmicrophones (very many, also with balanced output)
- Raes/Trimpin player piano(vorsetzer)
- Automated saxophone (Raes)
- Automated acoustic organ modules
- Automated acoustic percussion modules: <Klung>,<Troms>,<ThunderWood>,<Springers>
- Pavo Midi controllers (different types and models)
- Pavo Tap tempo synchronizer 19"rack model
- Optical Matrix Mixer for performances of Dick Raaijmakers 'Elektries Strijkkwartet'.
- DSP based polyphonic pitch to midi convertor (Johannes Taelman)
Special software:
- Power Basic PBWin 7.00 and PBcc 3.00 compiler with <GMT>
software for real time algorithmic music composition (2002)
- Microsoft Professional Basic Developer System V7.1 (BC7-QBX)
with lots of specialised libraries for music composition [legacy]
- C++ compiler (Microsoft Visual Studio)
- Cakewalk pro Audio
- Mellosoftron
- Cool Edit
- Soundforge
- PD
- Soundscape digital multitrack editing system
- Microsoft Visual Basic - Professional edition
- Finale (PC Windows version) [legacy]
- Noteprocessor (reads DARMS-code) [legacy]
- Sibelius score writing software
- Different compilers for DSP's (Analog Devices), controllers
and Microchip PIC's.
Microphones
- Soundfield + remote control unit & quad-outputs
- 3 Schoeps Condenser Microphones MK3
- 3 Schoeps Condensor Microphones MK5G
- 4 Beyer dynamics
- 4 AKG D190
- 2 AKG C3000
- 3 Telex wireless systems
- 40 contactmicrophones (Logotronics, diffent types for all instruments
and sources)
Synthesizers and sound modules:
- 2 Yamaha TX81Z
- 2 Yamaha FB01
- EMU Proteus 2000
- 3 EMU Proteus 2 XR
- 2 EMU Proteus 3
- EMU Proteus Procussion
- EMU Proformance
- Kawai K1 Keyboard synth
- 4 midi keyboards
- Paia analog midi controlled synth
- Yamaha TG100 module
- Yamaha MU100R module
- Akai S2000 Sampler
Effects and modulation equipment
- 2 Digitech TSR24+
- Digitech IPS33B
- Lexicon LXP5
- Lexicon PCM80 (expanded)
- Alesis effects
- ART effects
- Roland SP50
- Yamaha EMP100
- Yamaha REX50
- Behringer parametric EQ
- Behringer compressor limiter
- Paia analog vocoder
Analog and legacy equipment: (... remind you, we started back in 1968...)
- VCO's, VCA's, VCF's,
- 12 ringmodulators
- 4 ringmodulators, 19" rack with line level inputs and output.
- 12 sine wave oscillators (remember the old paradigms…)
- 12 sawtooth oscillators
- diverse analog synths
- many solid state filters
- 8 Crackle boxes (Steim)
- 4 Synthelogs
- 8 Theremins
- Brain Wave amplifiers with computer interfaces
- Myoelectric amplifiers (muscle voltage amplifiers)
- 5 Revox analog taperecorders (PR99, B77, A77...)
- 4-Track 1/2" taperecorder (15/30ips - Philips) This is
the very machine Edgar Varese may have used for his poeme electronique
on the Brussels Worldexhibition in the Philips Pavillion (Le Corbusier
/ Xenakis) in 1958. It was originally a 3-track machine and we
still have the original 3-track tape-heads.
- Nakamichi 550 Cassetterecorder - portable
- Sony TCD5
- Sony WMD6
- Apple Macintosh computer system ('Classic') [legacy]
- Atari 1040 ST with Composers Desktop CDP system [legacy]
Multimedia equipment
- Sony U-matic video 3/4" (PAL/NTCS)
- Sony Video-8 system
- Sony video-8 editing system + deck
- VHS systems (PAL/NTCS)
- 2 16mm film projectors (1 Siemens, 1 Kodak Pageant)
- 2 Kodak carousel slide projectors + dissolve unit
- Super 8 sound filmprojector
- Super 8 filmprojector (silent)
- 2 Video monitors
- 10 Multimedia computers (Pentium MMX + internet facilities,
networked under Windows98-UK, QWERTY keyboards!, now 3 phone lines)
- LCD video projector. (SVGA) Sony
- DVD players
Composers and performers working of having worked at our studio include:
Hans Roels, Annelies Van Parijs, Francesca Verbauwhede, Arne Deforce,
Johan Vercruysse, Joachim Brackx, Warren Burt, Jackson McLow (+),
Luc Houtkamp, Charlie Morrow, Phill Niblock, Jan Vandenheede, Godfried-Willem
Raes, Moniek Darge, Jerry Hunt (+), Guy De Bievre, Freddy Devree (+),
Yves Senden, Jane Henry, Walter Lievens, Rui Calapez-Gomes, Jorge
Peixinho(+), An Tardos, Maria Blondeel, Lelio Camilleri, Jan Zaman,
Johan Grimonprez, Christoph Fink, Kris De Baerdemacker, Luk Vaes,
Jacques Remus, Barbara Held, Bruno Forment, Jan Rispens, Konstantin
Gockel, Xavier Verhelst, Karin De Fleyt, Luc Brewaeys, Leonaar Degraeve,
Hans Roels, Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Brent Wetters, Kristof Lauwers,
Laura Maes, Sebastian Bradt, Thomas Smetryns, Charlemagne Palestine,
Jonathon Kirk, Barbara Buchowiec, Johannes Westerdorp, |
