Check out this interesting electroacoustic performance by Derek Holzer! Tonewheels is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. This all-analog set is performed entirely… Read More Tonewheels Turn Graphics Into Sound
via Kyle Gann at PostClassic: Awhile back, pianist Aron Kallay performed all of my microtonal electronic keyboard pieces out in Los Angeles. He recently sent me the mp3s, and I’m struck speechless by their quality. He used a tremendously responsive keyboard (a Yamaha Clavinova), and I have to attribute much of the finesse to that… Read More Microtonal Piano Pieces
Prepared piano works on TENORI-ON(s) [Rehearsals] by Smith was uploaded by: znshn
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Glove FM Synth with Arduino & Max/MSP was uploaded by: soundplusdesign
Duration: 52
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This video by hilltree captures some tests with using a plasma disk to control a synthesizer arpeggiator: The whole thing just act like a kaoss pad with a funky lightshow…cool huh? Notice the multimeter and the duspol, they react, but there are no wires on that !!!!
Martin Kaltenbrunner has published a very nice overview of tangible musical interfaces, focusing on table-top controllers, such as music tables and audio building blocks. Projects featured include: Audiopad – a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. Audio d-touch… Read More A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces
Big City Music has announced that it will be selling the quirky designs of Folktek Instruments: From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of… Read More Folktek Handcrafted Electronic Instruments
Audio Cookbook’s John Keston is doing some interesting experiments with processing sound using Photoshop: Sound designers, musicians, producers and engineers are all familiar with manipulating sound through the use of audio processing. Most examples of processing, like filters, reverbs, and delays produce a relatively predictable result. I’m interested in processing that has an unpredictable result.… Read More Processing Sound Using Photoshop
via Nyle Steiner: An electronic sound composition is made entirely of sounds produced using zinc negetive resistance audio oscillator circuits. No vacuum tubes or transistors were used to generate the sounds. Several tracks of the zinc oscillator sounds were recorded one at a time. Some of the sounds were enhanced with the addition of reverb.… Read More Neil Steiner’s Zinc Negative Resistance Sound Synthesizer
NIME Performance 2008: Tom Gerhardt was uploaded by: nullobjects
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