Technesexual – Erotic Avant Garde Music Meets Second Life

Sorry synth fans, but this Saturday Synth Porn entry is a little less synthy than usual and a little more porn-y. The image above is from a performance of Technosexual, from Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand’s Mixed Relations. Mixed Relations consists of a series of performances and workshops that explore the relations between bodies and… Read More Technesexual – Erotic Avant Garde Music Meets Second Life

Subcycle Labs’ Low Frequency Entity Multi-Touch Bass Synthesizer

This is a demo of Subsonic Labs’ Low Frequency Entity, a “real-time multi-touch interface to a visualized low frequency sound”: The various touch configurations control different parameters of the synthesized bass, including filter modulation rate, bit crush, sample and hold, feedback, oscillator phase and fm synthesis. Subsonic Labs is the creative work of Christian Bannister,… Read More Subcycle Labs’ Low Frequency Entity Multi-Touch Bass Synthesizer

The Stealth Project: A Collaborative Spatial Musical Instrument

The Stealth Project uses NOVA (a 3D grid of LEDs) to display a 3 dimensional dynamic light-based visualisation. It also features 2 Monome 64 interfaces. Planes, missiles and other hardware that deflect or otherwise avoid radar detection were key in the race for world supremacy. Detection avoidance, or stealth technology, was one of many ‘developments’… Read More The Stealth Project: A Collaborative Spatial Musical Instrument

Tonewheels, Experimental Music From Graphics

Tonewheels is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. We previewed Tonewheels a few months ago. 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 live without… Read More Tonewheels, Experimental Music From Graphics