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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 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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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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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
