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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Electronic music flowchart
January 12, 2011 – 10:32 am | No Comment
Electronic music flowchart

I found this flowchart by Drew and Natalie and thought I’d share – it’s a chart that could describe…hmmm, I don’t know – 95% of electronic music? It’s funny, but at the same …

Audio ring
January 7, 2011 – 9:20 am | No Comment
Audio ring

Luke Jerram is an artist from Bristol, England. When he proposed to his soon-to-be wife, he outdid us all: He made a ring out of silver and engraved it with a 20 …

Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play
January 2, 2011 – 7:14 pm | 4 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 …

Diesel analog recording gear bedding
January 2, 2011 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
Diesel analog recording gear bedding

While I don’t think that I’m really part of Diesel’s target demographic, I think their their “SoundSystem” bedding set is pretty darn awesome.
It’s a duvet cover plus pillowcases set printed with pictures of analog audio …

Incredibly fun tone generator
January 1, 2011 – 10:36 am | 6 Comments
Incredibly fun tone generator

Happy New year! Here’s an incredibly addictive Tenori-on-like tone matrix generator/sequencer for you to play with. Click on the squares, and press the spacebar to clear…. enjoy!

Audiophiles
December 31, 2010 – 11:20 am | No Comment
Audiophiles

Although not strictly synthesizer-related, I thought that this comic from xkcd was something everyone might enjoy.
Without trying to philosophize too much, I think it can help remind us all not to focus on …

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

What a record sees
September 10, 2010 – 9:34 am | No Comment
What a record sees

Tim Franco is a photographer based in Shanghai, China. His photographic work tries to examine objects from different perspectives:
“My art pushes further the idea to investigate the documentary work through portraying certain kind of …

Beer Synth
September 7, 2010 – 3:46 pm | No Comment
Beer Synth

Well, not quite. Matt Braun is a designer, artist and DJ who lives in in Philadelphia. He’s come up with a concept that is incredibly simple, and amazingly clever: Tuned Pale Ale.

Matt has …

The tell tale beat
September 3, 2010 – 12:10 pm | No Comment
The tell tale beat

I was checking out XKCD today and came across something that I thought I would share: The Tell Tale Beat (click for a larger version):

It reminded me so much of how my family must feel, …