Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment
Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play
January 2, 2011 – 7:14 pm | 5 Comments
Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play

ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it – that you can actually play. The ‘synth’ on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!). It …

Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 417 Comments
Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider

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 …

Mouth-controlled synthesizer
September 16, 2010 – 7:00 pm | One Comment
Mouth-controlled synthesizer

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 …