Articles in controllers
Marek Bereza is an industrial/interaction designer, and came up with a fantastic control system called the Speakatron. It’s a mouth-controlled softsynth!
The Speaktron software uses your webcam to determine if your mouth is open or …
It isn’t a secret that a lot of classic dance music follows a fairly defined formula. Mungo Enterprises has taken this concept a step further and have actually created a sequencer module called the …
EMULATOR is a DJ software MIDI controller package, created by Pablo Martin and made to work mainly on tablet PCs. The software supports multitouch and allows you to perform all sorts of functions quickly …
What do you get when you combine 2 trombones, and Eigenharp, 2 wii nunchucks and Robocop? Evidently you get first prize at Georgia Tech’s 2010 Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition.
The Georgia Tech Center …
The hipDisk was conceived and developed during Craft Australia’s three-week summer residential lab focused on wearable technology. The idea is that the hipDisk is meant to be a “a wearable interface that extends …
Franz Keller has come up with Metal frame into which you clip an ipad and/or other music gear, turning it into a keytar.
From their promo material:
Sturdy hand cut plexiglass body holds iPad, Kaoss Pad and …
We’re huge fans of the Korg Monotron here at Synthgear, and gadgeteers Denkitribe have hacked one to respond to a Wii Nunchuck.
The Nunchuck controller is rigged up to the Monotron using the WiiChuck adapter, which …
Blair Neal has created an art project installation entitled ‘Color a Sound’ which was set up at RPI’s West Hall Gallery 111 for the month of April 2010.
The installation invites participants to make colored markings …
Cocky Eek’s Tactile Research Lab has created an art-installation-meets-musical-instrument-meets-organic-weirdness. Called the “Get in Touch” exhibit, it invites the public to create sounds by touching the backs of nude people in an effort to help …
Jaime Oliver is a computer-based musician and inventor and has created a very unique drum-type controller. The Silent Drum project uses the membrane of a drum head to play sounds via a computer.
The drum …
