Here’s the weirdest thing you’re likely to see today – Sleep Waking – a robot that does interpretive dancing based on your brainwaves. Here’s what creator Fernando Orellana has to say about the project: In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through… Read More Robots Do Interpretive Dance Based On Your Brainwaves
Remember when I noted Roland’s V-Accordion as one of the the NAMM Show highlights? You probably were wondering WHO would do WHAT with a MIDI accordion. Here you go: Uwe Steger presents his extensions for the Roland V-Accordion. via MusicThing
We’ve seen some strange musical instruments in our days, but this probably takes the prize. United States patent 5163447 is for a Force-Sensitive, Sound-Playing Condom – aka, the musical condom. The musical condom looks and acts like a traditional condom but it incorporates “a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer (18) which plays a melody or voiced… Read More Musical Condom Opens New Worlds Of Musical Expression
Nick’s World Of Synthesizers is a trip to bizarre DIY synthville. The video gives you a taste of what Nick’s been up to, but you have to visit his site to check out his really interesting, complex creations. Here’s his DIY philosophy: I have been making electronic musical instruments for about 10 years. With all… Read More Nick’s World Of Synthesizers
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers This may look like an innocent rubber ducky, but it’s actually a bizarre MIDI drum trigger that we saw at NAMM.
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Eric Barbour of Metasonix introduced the G-1000 Fucking Fucker (not the sucking fucker), a high-end tube amp that brings Barbour’s interest in using using vacuum tubes in original ways to amps. Here’s what Barbour has to say about the Fucking Fucker: There is nothing like the G-1000. Not even… Read More The Fucking Fucker
PhD student and cybernetics guru Peter Bennet has created a new tangible interface, Beat Bearing, which is a sort of steampunk-style music sequencer. Creatively, Bennet uses ball bearings on washer as a way of completing a circuit to make a switch. Sequences are created by moving ball bearings from the tray to one of the… Read More Steampunk Music Sequencer
PowerFX has released a creepy new video to showcase its virtual vocalist, Sweet Ann. The video pits Sweet Ann, the girl from Cy-beria, VS. Kitto, the reigning & raging rock queen from the outback of Australia: It makes a great case for bringing in a real vocalist, doesn’t it? You can find out more about… Read More Creepy Video Showcase Limitations Of Virtual Vocalists
This is sort of stupidtacular, but at least it can handle the Prodigy. Here’s how it works: A hard drive voice coil circuit is hacked to allow it to be directly connected to a stereo output. This allows audio to move the hard drive read write head. Mirrors are positioned on the center of the… Read More Hard Drive Oscilloscope May Be Useless, But It Looks Cool
Headph0ne Phet1sh is one of the stranger sites that we’ve come across recently. It’s a site devoted to “all manner of ladies wearing all kinds of headphones.” They aren’t kidding, either. The site has collected hundreds, if not thousands of photos of woman in headphones. Here’s a slice of what the slice is all about…..
