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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Robot DJ’s set to take over the world
June 18, 2010 – 1:08 pm | No Comment
Robot DJ’s set to take over the world

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 …

Steam-powered synthesizer
May 19, 2010 – 3:23 pm | One Comment
Steam-powered synthesizer

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 …

The Machine: DIY Instrument Made From Scavenged Car Horns
May 18, 2010 – 11:03 am | 5 Comments
The Machine: DIY Instrument Made From Scavenged Car Horns

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 …

Synthesizer cakes, take 2
May 17, 2010 – 2:46 pm | 4 Comments
Synthesizer cakes, take 2

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 …

Nude bodies as a musical instrument
April 25, 2010 – 8:45 pm | No Comment
Nude bodies as a musical instrument

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 …

Fine collection of curious sound objects
April 21, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment
Fine collection of curious sound objects

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 …

Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers
March 8, 2010 – 4:11 pm | No Comment
Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers

from AutomaticGainsay:
“Just as you requested, here are a couple of cats getting their groove on with a number of exciting vintage analog synthesizers.”
Cats, vintage synths, What more can I say?

Richard James face encoded into his music
February 26, 2010 – 11:26 am | One Comment
Richard James face encoded into his music

Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) has always been at the top of my ‘most creative musicians’ list. It seems as though everything he does pushes the bounds of music and art. Even his …

Guitar-playing birds
January 20, 2010 – 12:15 pm | 4 Comments
Guitar-playing birds

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a visual/installation artist from France, and one of his most recent works involves birds and a guitars. He has recorded the behaviour of birds who have been lured to land on …

Creepy robotic singing heads
December 11, 2009 – 4:04 pm | No Comment
Creepy robotic singing heads

These heads are part of an exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach – the piece is currently being sold for $75,000.

The 3 creepy heads are made from an actual mold of the artist’s face and …