Articles in Strange and Weird
Robert Schneider is the singer for the indie rock band “The Apples in Stereo“, hailing from Denver, Colorado. Not happy with trying to play synthesizers with and actual keyboard, Robert modified a Mattel Mindflex(The …
“Shoes in the dryer” is one of the best ways to describe a beat that is going off-kilter, or the sound of a DJ who just can’t seem to get two songs beatmatched. That …
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 …
I’m not sure entirely what to make of this, but it sure got my attention. Velosynth is a DIY kit for “an open-source bicycle interaction synthesizer” that attaches to your bike, playing sounds interactively.
Made …
Robots have never exactly been thought of as the grooviest types, but the “Juke Bot” is really trying hard to change that image.
The Juke Bot is a pair of Kuka industrial robots – each one …
One of the last things that I would think of to be steam powered would be any sort of electronic device, let alone a synthesizer. Well Lorin Parker and Sarah Seelig, whom we …
Llyn Foulkes is an artist and music from Los Angeles who likes to do things a bit differently. His website says:
LLyn Foulkes has been called the Zelig of contemporary art. Over the past five …
Since it’s SynthGear’s birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate with some cake, and revisit one of my favorite subjects, synth cake!
Around a year ago, one of our first articles was on some …
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 …
Georg Reil is a musician and artist from Deggendorf, Germany. He’s put together this video of a collection of very curious sound objects.
At first sight, each one seems quite trivial, but exhibits exceptional and …
