History of Synthesizers: 1950 to 1970
June 11, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment

Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …

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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 …

The Drum Buddy
September 10, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 4 Comments
The Drum Buddy

Functionally, the Drum Buddy is a 4 oscillator, light activated, mechanically rotating light-activated drum machine and the invention of renowned New Orleans musician, Quintron. Musically, it’s a heavy duty synthesizer/drum machine that makes …

Drumming robot can improvise along with you
September 5, 2009 – 8:12 am | No Comment
Drumming robot can improvise along with you

Gil Weinberg and Scott Driscoll of Georgia Tech have created an interactive robot that can improvise rhythms – it listens to what you are playing and jams along.
Haile is a robotic percussionist that can listen …

The Breakcore Kid
September 1, 2009 – 4:12 pm | One Comment
The Breakcore Kid

Kukowa brings us this awesome little video, the Breakcore Kid. Combining video and audio sampling, it’s freaking hilarious.
Just watch:

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 …

8-bit Trip: Chiptunes and LEGO.
August 25, 2009 – 12:26 am | No Comment
8-bit Trip:  Chiptunes and LEGO.

8-Bit Trip is a stop motion LEGO video tribute to classic video games. It was created by the Swedish band Rymdreglage ,and took more than 1,500 hours of work.
The video is excellent, but my favorite part …

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. …