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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The Musical Kettle
August 28, 2009 – 12:31 pm | No Comment
The Musical Kettle

Yuri Suzuki was born in Japan and currently resides in London. He’s an accomplished kinetic artist and lecturer, and he also has a keen interest in music and sound.
Yuri feels that not a lot of …

Concert Hands: The robotic keyboard teacher
August 19, 2009 – 9:39 am | One Comment
Concert Hands: The robotic keyboard teacher

Have you ever wanted to brush up on your keyboard skills without having to actually figure it out for yourself or without having to take lessons? This patented contraption is called “Concert Hands”, and …

The Humanthesizer: Bikini-clad midi controller
August 15, 2009 – 11:25 pm | No Comment
The Humanthesizer: Bikini-clad midi controller

The Humanthesizer is a collaboration between Calvin Harris and masters students from the Royal College of Art’s Industrial Design Engineering programme. It uses bikini clad girls covered in special conductive paint to form a …

Jellyfish Theremin
August 12, 2009 – 10:38 am | 7 Comments
Jellyfish Theremin

Yuri Suzuki is a musician and artist who was born in Japan and now lives in the UK. He’s come up with one of the craziest musical instruments I’ve seen – a jellyfish theremin. …

Synths and Robots
July 25, 2009 – 7:52 pm | No Comment
Synths and Robots

Picture this: You’ve got robots that are modules in a self-aware modular synth. They start patching themselves together, crafting sound and rhythm, and they work themselves into such a lather that the …

Transforming movement into music
July 16, 2009 – 12:31 pm | No Comment
Transforming movement into music

In conjunction with Yama, Giuseppe Guerriero has created the “Physical Sequencer”. The basic idea is that it transforms body movement into electronic music, much like a life-sized sequencer controller.
At the heart of the Physical …

Weird / odd things in synth manuals
July 10, 2009 – 11:13 pm | 4 Comments
Weird / odd things in synth manuals

We synthesizer nuts can be a weird bunch. It seems as though half of the synth manuals that I’ve seen have some sort of strange text or pictures in them. The following are …

Free walnut and paper drum machine
July 8, 2009 – 12:19 am | One Comment
Free walnut and paper drum machine

I’m sure the title has got you wondering … well, the d-touch drum machine is a free piece of software that lets you make DIY beats and drum patterns using a piece of paper, a …

Incredible steampunk analogue modular sequencer
June 27, 2009 – 7:56 pm | 8 Comments
Incredible steampunk analogue modular sequencer

I’m a huge fan of analogue modular synthesizers. I used to have a big Moog, now I’ve got a MOTM and Doepfer modular. Other than the obvious sound generating madness, I also …

Midi controlled stepper motor music
June 25, 2009 – 2:32 pm | No Comment
Midi controlled stepper motor music

Michael is a 26-year old PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, and also an amateur musician. He’s set the geek radar off the charts with this little piece of midi-to-machine musical …