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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Synth playing robot
October 31, 2009 – 10:03 pm | 4 Comments
Synth playing robot

It was made over 25 years ago. WABOT-2 was a robot that was developed by Waseda University in 1984 as an intelligent humanoid keyboard player.

When it was made, it was considered the ‘most …

The MIDI suit
October 31, 2009 – 3:33 pm | One Comment
The MIDI suit

Sonalog is a company based out of Brighton, UK and they’ve put together the first commercially-available MIDI body suit. The ”Gypsy Motion Capture MIDI Controller” is an exoskeleton that is worn outside the clothes …

Audio to MIDI madness
October 30, 2009 – 2:15 pm | 3 Comments
Audio to MIDI madness

Akihiko Matsumoto from Japan has put together this Max/MSP tool that converts audio to midi. This in itself is pretty cool but then things get, well… demented.
Akihiko uses samples of voices, puts them through …

Arp Axxe – the halloween synth
October 27, 2009 – 3:06 pm | No Comment
Arp Axxe – the halloween synth

An Arp Axxe owner by the name of Nathanial Scott put together this video demo of an Arp Axxe, Dot-Com modular and a paia sequencer. As it turns out, The Axxe seems to be …

The first Drum Machine – Wurlitzer Sideman
October 26, 2009 – 10:42 am | 6 Comments
The first Drum Machine – Wurlitzer Sideman

The Wurlitzer Sideman was the first electronic drum machine ever produced (if you don’t count tape loops), sold as a Wurlitzer organ accessory beginning in 1959. It’s got some fantastically great sounds and the …

When Kraftwerk was actually groovy
October 22, 2009 – 3:30 pm | No Comment
When Kraftwerk was actually groovy

This video is taken from a 1971 live performance – it’s a version of Kraftwerk’s song “Truckstop Gondolero”. The difference between this song and their later album releases is truly remarkable.
The band …

The Nintendo Guitar
October 18, 2009 – 8:16 pm | One Comment
The Nintendo Guitar

No, this isn’t the newest competitor to Rock Band – this is an actual, working DIY guitar made from an NES console and game cartridge!

I imagine that at one point in the near …

The Acid Symphony Orchestra
October 13, 2009 – 9:14 pm | One Comment
The Acid Symphony Orchestra

The Acid Symphony Orchestra is the brainchild of Jori Hulkkonen. Imagine 10 Roland TB-303′s one Roland TR-707 drum machine, and one Roland TR-808 drum machine. All wonderfully in sync, all tweaked by members …

Nintendo Jazz
October 10, 2009 – 10:23 am | 7 Comments
Nintendo Jazz

I love old Nintendo 8 bit games, and I love some of the music in these games. Well, Scott Bradlee and Ben Golder-Novick teamed up to bring you classic video game music recreated …

The talking piano
October 7, 2009 – 8:13 am | 17 Comments
The talking piano

Peter Ablinger was born in Austria, in 1959. He’s a graphic artist and a student of jazz, and he is a fairly prolific composer. Peter has made it his mission to question the nature …