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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Vuvuzela: dancefloor killer?
July 1, 2010 – 8:54 am | One Comment
Vuvuzela: dancefloor killer?

Whether you like it or not (and probably not), the vuvuzela has gone from unknown in much of the western hemisphere to defining noise pollution for the summer of 2010.
In a move that I’m sure …

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June 26, 2010 – 7:22 pm | One Comment
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This is “u_08-1″ from the album Unitxt, by Alva Noto.
The vocals are done by poet Anne-James Chaton.
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Combination CD and vinyl record – on one disc
June 16, 2010 – 1:09 am | 2 Comments
Combination CD and vinyl record – on one disc

Jeff Mills has taken a pretty interesting approach to his latest limited release, The Occurrence. The record is released on a “hybrid CD”, meaning that the CD and the vinyl record are one of …

John Tesh Rocking an SH101 with the Zappa boys
April 21, 2010 – 9:22 am | 3 Comments
John Tesh Rocking an SH101 with the Zappa boys

In this video, we’ve got Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa performing with with John Tesh (composer and pianist, and of Entertainment Tonight fame) on the Conan O’Brian show. As cool as it is to see …

Looping around the house
April 14, 2010 – 12:48 pm | One Comment
Looping around the house

This is great – Musician Simon Panrucker straps a digital camera to his head & takes a microphone around his house, looping sounds. The result is a great demonstration of his ninja looping skillz, …

Music from earthquakes
March 5, 2010 – 12:13 am | 2 Comments
Music from earthquakes

Micah Frank is a New York City based composer, sound designer and live performer. He studied Jazz and Contemporary Music, and in the years following college, Micah got into electronic composition and sound design.
Micah’s latest …

Turn a web page into music with Codeorgan
February 19, 2010 – 2:54 pm | No Comment
Turn a web page into music with Codeorgan

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 …

Scratching with cassette tapes
February 12, 2010 – 12:28 pm | No Comment
Scratching with cassette tapes

Alexis Malbert from France goes by the name of TapeTronic, and cassette tapes are his kung-fu. He builds custom tapes and tape players and travels around Europe doing tape-scratching performances on his DIY tapes …

Music for 100 metronomes
December 31, 2009 – 11:59 am | No Comment
Music for 100 metronomes

Györgi Ligeti was a Hungarian composer who lived from 1923 until 2006 in Germany and Austria, and was considered by many to be one of the most imaginative composers in the last 50 years. …

Merry Synth-mas !
December 25, 2009 – 11:38 pm | One Comment
Merry Synth-mas !

Sy Mann on the Moog synthesizer: Switched On Santa – 1969
Electronic Music Engineered by legend Jean Jacques Perrey.
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Sy Mann showed his eariiest musical talent at age 6 when he began to correct mistakes, made …