The Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition – an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering – is being held today at the Georgia Tech Center For Music Technology. Instruments will be judged on musicality, design and engineering by an expert panel including Atau Tanaka, media artist and researcher,… Read More The 2012 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
This is a preview of The Big Bug – a live looping performance by Swedish ‘electro shamans’ Lur (Mika Forsling and Erik Rask). The duo records various modified instruments, electronics and hacked toys on stage and then manipulates the live loops with DJ effects and filters. Among the gear are MIDI lightning balls, Q-chord, YouRock guitar… Read More Live Looping Gets Bizarre With Lur
Julie Covello, aka DJ Shakey, wanted a unique DJ controller. So, she created the VoltAxe – a super-furry cyborg frankenthing. CDM’s Peter Kirn describes Covello’s VoltAxe as “an explosion of color, buttons, keys, velcro, and fur, and coupled with a cyborg-chic eyepiece. The VoltAxe is controllerism gone Mad Max, a post-acocalyptic keytar bred from salvaged parts.”… Read More The VoltAxe Super-Furry Cyborg Franken-Controller
CyberStep presents KDJ-ONE at NAMM 2012 was uploaded by: CosmicBreakCyberStep
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At the 2012 NAMM Show, boutique effects pedal manufacturer Dwarfcraft was displaying this unique NSFW design. We’re too tired from working the NAMM Show to come up with a clever comment. So we put it to you, readers, to Caption This!
The Slaperoo was uploaded by: ellewebb
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gAtari – Atari 2600 chipmusic project by cTrix @ Blip Festival Tokyo 2011 was uploaded by: debuglive
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We’re about to kiss 2011 goodbye, so we’re starting to look back at some of the more notable synth news and other posts of the year. We’re pretty sure that Richard Brown’s Synthkini is the most NSFW synth of the year. Our eyes are still a little scarred from viewing this demo. But, if you’ve… Read More The Most NSFW Synth Of 2011
The Tetrafol is a hand-held tangible electronic sound toy, created by Fol Chen. Circuits enclosed by a wooden tetrahedron detect orientation and motion-gestures to modify the playback of a collection of Fol Chen’s micro-compositions, allowing the user to explore sound through physical manipulation. The battery-powered device has its own internal speaker but can additionally be… Read More The Tetrafol – A Handheld Tetrahedral Sound Toy
Reader POL sent in this demo of the ‘Tupperware Orchestra’, and demonstrates how it locks in fresh sounds – a million and two fresh sounds. via Otaku
