HobNox is running a contest to promote its browser-based virtual studio, AudioTool. You can check out the contest details here. But this bizarre promo ad is enough to give you nightmares! Are you getting inspired to make music? Let me know what you think! via Mark Mosher on Twitter
Teen Torture (App Store link) is a new iPhone app that promises to annoy teenagers with sound that they can hear, but you can’t. Description: Teen Torture – Annoy your kids with high frequency sounds that they can hear, but you can’t. As you age you lose the ability to hear high frequencies(called presbycusis). This… Read More Bizarre iPhone Audio App: Teen Torture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1juh5aM1Q I’ve been easy on Synthtopia readers lately, carefully avoiding posting videos that could scorch your eyeballs, give you nightmares and even warp your unborn progeny. This video, Thriller in the Nude, merits your attention, though, as it may be the strangest music video of 2008. It starts out fairly normal…..but then the ninjas and naked guys come… Read More The Strangest Music Video Of 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YckQXa6VnY It looks like Dali’s been faking it again. The good people at DeadAct dredged up this video of Dali soloing on synth. Note that there’s no correlation between what she plays and the synth sounds. Or as DeadAct notes: Perhaps she was harmonizing, but I don’t think so because the riff seems to magically… Read More More Psytrance Synth Fakery From Dali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL6G0zBRfJc Pascal Kleiman is a unique artist, deejay and producer who DJs using only his feet. This video captures Kleiman in the semifinals of a recent Spanish talent search show. Kleiman’s example is a reminder not to let anything keep you from doing what you want to do. via Beatportal
Earlier in the year, we reported on Italians scientists that were studying the clubbing behavior rats on ecstasy. At the time, we thought that Italy was the place to be if you got reincarnated as a lab rat. But those Italians scientists didn’t stop with giving rats ecstasy and exposing them to music at club noise… Read More Scientific Proof That Clubbing Rats Have Lousy Sex Lives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSC8M6mSajU This documentary on prog-rock is narrated by a female robo-narrator. Strange, but interesting. via ProgAlbums
Electronic musicians and DJs think they have it tough – but robotic-DJs have it even tougher. They have to compete for attention with robo-strippers! From Mutate Britain, a five week exhibition of multiple media, presented by Urban Style & Hosted by Joe Rush and Wreckage International of the Mutoid Waste Company.
Merce Death plays a guitar with the tesla coil. Pretty cool – but it doesn’t beat Mark Smart’s outrageous tesla coil prog synth work. via hackaday
Sound Animals (App Store link) is a bizarre iPhone audio sampler app, and it’s free, too.
