Articles in Strange and Weird
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 …
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 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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
