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 Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track
July 13, 2010 – 5:46 pm | No Comment
The Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track

The Drumssette is a programmable drum machine built by musician and circuit bender Mike Walters.

A very creative DIY use of an old four track recorder, it was built using the innards of a Tascam MF-P01. …

Typewriter Music
July 11, 2010 – 9:13 am | No Comment
Typewriter Music

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) was a composer of pops orchestral music, mainly composing mainly short, happy pieces.
In 1950, Leroy wrote a piece called “The Typewriter”, which featured a solo on a mechanical typewriter. The Typewriter …

Joe Paradisio’s huge modular
July 10, 2010 – 7:37 pm | One Comment
Joe Paradisio’s huge modular

Joseph Paradiso is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments Group, which explores “how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and …

Hipdisk – the world’s most undignified musical instrument
July 7, 2010 – 7:49 am | No Comment
Hipdisk – the world’s most undignified musical instrument

The hipDisk was conceived and developed during Craft Australia’s three-week summer residential lab focused on wearable technology. The idea is that the hipDisk is meant to be a “a wearable interface that extends …

LEGO Mindstorms drum machine
June 28, 2010 – 9:32 am | No Comment
LEGO Mindstorms drum machine

LEGO tinkerer Peter Cocteau has created a complete DIY drum machine out of a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick and 2 motors. Dubbed the NXT-606, it’s a monophonic sample playback device, with 24 percussion …

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June 26, 2010 – 7:22 pm | One Comment
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This is “u_08-1″ from the album Unitxt, by Alva Noto.
The vocals are done by poet Anne-James Chaton.
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The impossibilitron
June 26, 2010 – 8:44 am | 3 Comments
The impossibilitron

x9spaceman built this DIY crazy box out of scrap parts, and it makes some great noises. Part synth, part steampunk idunnowhat, it sports 6 Guitar strings, a bass string, a ship whistle, a jaw …

Amazing drum machine robot
June 23, 2010 – 8:33 pm | 2 Comments
Amazing drum machine robot

I love drum machines – from the boooom of the tr808 to the snappy kick of the tr909, to all the weird an wonderful sounds from early analogue boxes. Well, here’s a completely different …

We love the Korg Monotron!
June 21, 2010 – 5:20 pm | 5 Comments
We love the Korg Monotron!

If you’re a regular reader of SynthGear, you know that we love the Korg Monotron. Heck, we’re even giving them away for free!
Korg themselves have put together a bunch of cool mods (some commercial, …

Mantaray iTar: turn an iPad into a digital keytar
June 19, 2010 – 8:05 pm | 2 Comments
Mantaray iTar: turn an iPad into a digital keytar

Franz Keller has come up with Metal frame into which you clip an ipad and/or other music gear, turning it into a keytar.

From their promo material:
Sturdy hand cut plexiglass body holds iPad, Kaoss Pad and …