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18-502: SK-1 or SK1 may refer to: Casio SK-1 , a small sampling keyboard Garant 30k SK-1 , an East German armored vehicle Hammond SK1 , a modern keyboard SK-1 spacesuit , an early Russian spacesuit sK1 (program) , a fork of the Skencil vector graphics editor Sphingosine kinase 1 , a protein SK1 (film) , a 2014 French film VR Class Sk1 ,

36-481: A locomotive class SK 1 , the special Whitehead group See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "sk1"  or "sk-1" on Misplaced Pages. SKL (disambiguation) ski (disambiguation) SK (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

54-624: A rudimentary sequence recorder, preset rhythms and chord accompaniment. The SK-1 was thus an unusually full-featured synth in the sub-US$ 100 (equivalent to $ 280 today) home keyboard market of the time. The SK-1 includes one pre-arranged piece of music, the Toy Symphony , which is played when the "Demo" button is pressed. The Radio Shack version of the Casio SK-1 is called the Realistic Concertmate 500 . The SK line continued throughout

72-616: The Donnie Darko soundtrack, and which became the 2003 UK Christmas number one . He is a founding member of the San Diego soul-jazz band The Greyboy Allstars , where he goes by the moniker Elgin Park. After joining The Greyboy Allstars following the dissolution of his band The Origin , Andrews fell into film score composition by chance in 1998 when The Greyboy Allstars were asked to score Jake Kasdan 's first feature Zero Effect and worked on

90-458: The Netherlands , and Australia in 2003 and 2004, and a snippet was used in the television commercial for the 2006 Xbox 360 video game Gears of War . In 2005, Andrews scored Me and You and Everyone We Know , a film by Miranda July praised at both Sundance and Cannes film festivals . The score to the film was released on Everloving Records on July 12, 2005. Initially taking cues from

108-544: The Painfully Alone 's second live album In Sydney . Graham Lewis of Wire used it frequently during their late-80s period. Mount Eerie 's Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie consisted solely of Phil Elverum 's vocals and an SK-1, making use of its various effects and built-in rhythm machine. It is also featured on the cover of the Soccer Mommy album "Collection". Composer Samuel Andreyev has written demanding parts for

126-583: The SK-1 in several of his chamber compositions, including Vérifications, Iridescent Notation and Sextet in Two Parts. Michael Andrews (musician) Michael Andrews (born November 17, 1967), also known as Elgin Park , is an American multi-instrumental musician, producer, and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song " Mad World ", which he recorded with Gary Jules for

144-473: The SK-1 is the primary synth used in the no wave / industrial band Special Interest. It was used by notable jungle artist DJ Hype for his seminal productions, and rapper and producer Large Professor used it in his early years of beat-making. Australian band Turnstyle used the keyboard's sample function on various songs as both repetitive motifs (Happier Than Metallica) and melodic passages (Sad Rambo). Owen Ashworth used and recorded with one for Casiotone for

162-611: The characters' dialogue, Andrews began writing the score. He came to understand the film's world as a kind of alternate reality where people believe in fate and chance—and this was the world he needed to paint with his music. He also saw the feelings July was trying to get across in her film as very primary. "She tries to break things down to very basic, simple shapes—the simplest shapes possible, and that totally influenced me in my music". Working out of his custom-built backyard studio in Glendale, California , Andrews spent three months creating

180-494: The film's motifs. Other instruments used in the score include Andrews's modified piano (rather than hitting the strings directly, the hammers first make contact with a piece of soft felt, creating a warmer, slightly muffled tone), as well as his Moog and Vocoder synthesizers. Despite all the electronic gear, no MIDI was used in the recording, so that all the humanness, all the subtle variations of rhythm, are intact. Inara George adds vocals in several climactic moments throughout

198-522: The late 1980s, including the SK-2, SK-5, SK-8 and 8A, SK-10, SK-60, SK-100, SK-200, and SK-2100. The SK-1 has been used by a few major recording artists for its simplicity and lo-fi sound. It became very popular in the late 1990s among the circuit bending crowd after the first guide to bending it was published by Reed Ghazala in Experimental Musical Instruments magazine, though the SK-1

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216-480: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SK-1&oldid=1236875539 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Casio SK-1 All voices may be shaped by 13 preset envelopes , portamento , and vibrato . It also includes

234-507: The movies Out Cold , Nothing , Cypher , Orange County , My Suicidal Sweetheart , Me and You and Everyone We Know , The TV Set , a segment of Paris, je t'aime , Unaccompanied Minors , Bridesmaids , Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Daddy's Home among others. In early 2000, Jim Juvonen gave Andrews a copy of the script for the as-yet-unmade feature film Donnie Darko . Director Richard Kelly knew Andrews worked with The Greyboy Allstars, and made music under

252-423: The music for the highly regarded (though short-lived) TV series, Freaks and Geeks . In 2000, Richard Kelly commissioned him to do the soundtrack for the film Donnie Darko . Its original score album went on to sell over 100,000 copies (in part because of Andrews's remake of Tears for Fears ' "Mad World", featuring Gary Jules), and Andrews became a composer to watch. He has since gone on to compose scores for

270-430: The name Elgin Park . Like his role models John Barry and Ennio Morricone , Andrews wanted a song on his otherwise instrumental score. He chose " Mad World " by Tears for Fears (originally released in 1982), which his childhood friend Gary Jules sang as Andrews played piano. The first soundtrack record was released by Andy Factor, a friend of Andrews, through his Everloving Records label in 2002. As Donnie Darko

288-412: The score using an orchestra of obscure vintage synthesizers (a miniature hotwired Casio keyboard was unearthed at a garage sale for $ 10) and drum machines. His concept was to play what he termed amateurish, emotional, naïve, magical and simple music on highly unemotional, inorganic instruments—for example, a calculator with built-in twelve-note keyboard that lends a haunting portamento melody to one of

306-445: Was being modified as early as 1987 when Keyboard Magazine published an article on adding MIDI support. The synthesizer was one of the first pieces of equipment that Autechre had when they began recording music. Musician and score composer Michael Andrews featured a circuit bent SK-1 heavily in the Me and You and Everyone We Know musical score. The "Realistic Concertmate" version of

324-869: Was not a hit at first, there was little interest in the soundtrack in the US. The film was more popular in Europe, especially in the UK, where it outgrossed the US release. This sparked interest in the soundtrack and "Mad World", which was a 2003 Christmas #1 on the UK Singles Chart. It reached the top 30 of the American Billboard Modern Rock chart in 2004 and hit #1 on the Canadian Digital Singles chart in January 2007. It charted in countries like Ireland, Denmark ,

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