Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960
December 21, 2010 – 8:52 pm | One Comment
Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960

For your pleasure is a scan from Electronics Illustrated’s June 1960 issue, describing the Theremin. It’s a great read – they almost sound like they’re describing some strange alien device, and it definitely gets …

One Red Patch Cable for trade!
August 26, 2010 – 6:59 pm | No Comment
One Red Patch Cable for trade!

Rob Wright has followed the idea of Kyle MacDonald’s one red paper clip trade idea, applying the idea to synthesizers.
Rob is looking to gradually trade a single red patch cable up to something that he …

My trusty companion: The Korg MS-20
May 26, 2010 – 2:10 pm | 2 Comments
My trusty companion: The Korg MS-20

When I was a teenager (in the late seventies), I got hold of an unexpected sum of money and promptly converted it into keyboard instruments: A used Fender Rhodes piano (which I got rid of …

Moby’s massive synth and drum machine stash
October 21, 2009 – 3:37 pm | One Comment
Moby’s massive synth and drum machine stash

This is a video of Moby’s studio apartment in Manhattan. It’s a synthesizer and drum machine playground, filled with ultra-rare gadgets, prized vintage synths, drum machines and bizarre electronics.
Enjoy.

For some reason, he seems to think …

The EMS Synthi Mk 1 AKS
July 6, 2009 – 7:51 pm | No Comment
The EMS Synthi Mk 1 AKS

My certifiable obsession for electronic music and electronic instruments in general, especially synthesizers, started in my elementary and middle school years, sometime in the 1980′s. Frequent trips to the library, an institution in which I …