Jim Jarmusch is an independent film director (who directed Ghost Dog and many other movies), and below is one of his “golden rules”. It’s about film making, but I think it’s just as applicable …

What would it sound like if you took the record off the turntable and just let the needle hit the platter while it spins? How about 100 of them all playing at the same …

There are a lot of ways to use analogue tape as an instrument, however a group who call themselves “Signal to noise” have created an actual art installation based on human-magentic tape interation.
Participants wear a …

Personally, I don’t mind cramming a ton of music gear into a small space (hey, it’s cozy), but I can see how it might be difficult for some people, especially if they live in a …

Codeorgan is a neat little flash application that turns websites into auto-generated music, coming up with a different type of music for each URL, based on its own complex algorithm. The application looks at …

We all know Keith Emerson, the iconic British keyboard player from Emerson, Lake and Palmer (and the Nice). Well, a company called Knucklebonz has a Keith Emerson figurine as part of it’s “rock Iconz” …

Mental Floss has a great quiz up called “Scientology term or German techno artist”, where you have to decide if a term is from Scientology or the name of a German techno artist.
When Lafayette Ronald …

When I see graffiti, I usually get as mad as hell, but I saw something today that make me second guess this reaction, just for an instant.
Liam Devowski is an artist from San Fransisco, California. …

Katie Paterson is an artist who visited some glaciers in iceland and collected up 3 gallons of natural ice from them. She then took a recording of the ice, running water and …

Cybraphon is an “autonomous emotional robot band”. It’s a self-playing musical robot, similar to a player piano, but more more complicated, and it’s actually a full band. Oh, and it obsessively checks the …