We recently saw a post on the Weirdest Guitars In The World – and, after taking a look, all I can say is that guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch. You haven’t seen weird, until you’ve seen some of the bizarre synth contraptions that keyboardists and electronic musicians have come up with. In fact, some of… Read More The Strangest Synthesizers In The World
This is off topic and pretty insanely stupid, but it’s the only thing that brought tears to my eyes today. And made me blow coffee out my nose. Pat Metheny plays As It Is live, and reveals why he doesn’t gets a vocal mic. via the awesome WFMU
OT: This isn’t as cool as Chuck E Cheese robots doing Ms. New Booty, but it’s close. Bert & Ernie do M.O.P.’s Ante Up.
Remember former teen star Traci Lords and her brief, but almost respectable, career in hardcore techno? In this video, via Stereogum, Lords discusses the difficulty of putting together a touring techno band, and DJ’s as “gods of clubs.”
Remember Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo? Last time we saw it, it was looking a bit sore and nasty. Now it doesn’t look sore at all. The tat reproduces the circuit design of Bob Moog’s seminal Transistor Ladder Filter. Now that’s hardcore!
If you’ve ever wondered how pictures of you French-kissing a giant chicken ended up on Flickr, you’ll be glad to know there’s a scientific explanation: bars use loud dance music to get you drunk. A study to be published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research on the effects of music levels on drinking in bars… Read More t’s Science: Bars Use Loud Musi# To Get You Drunk
Remember the recent post about binaural beats? When two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately to your ears via headphones, the brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally. According to some research,… Read More Free Binaural Beat Site Promises To Open Your Chakras
The world of Chicken Techno videos on YouTube demonstrates what happens when samplers go wild. Note: Some of these videos may scar you for life.
In 2006, ShowStudio filmed a series of film shorts designed to explore The Sound of Clothes. Anechoic is a ‘collections story’ project that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio -a hemi-anechoic chamber- on 1 June 2006… Read More NSFW Videos Reveal The Sound Of Clothes
Dr. Earth has launched a plan to use hedonism, sex and dance music to save the world. To forward this goal, Dr. Earth’s first step has been to launch a sustainable clubbing initiative: Working on the basis that a club should be self sufficient and not a drain on the environment, Club4Climate has come up… Read More Dr. Earth Launches Plan To Use Sex & Hedonism, And Some Urine Power, To Save The World
