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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DIY floppy drive echo and delay
April 23, 2010 – 9:40 am | 2 Comments
DIY floppy drive echo and delay

Daniel McAnulty is an electronic music composer, device maker, song writer, photographer, and general all around useful fellow from Oakland, CA. Daniel has come up with the ultimate in DIY audio effects: He’s …

The Silent Drum controller
April 23, 2010 – 8:44 am | One Comment
The Silent Drum controller

Jaime Oliver is a computer-based musician and inventor and has created a very unique drum-type controller. The Silent Drum project uses the membrane of a drum head to play sounds via a computer.
The drum …

Theremin-playing cat
April 22, 2010 – 4:42 pm | One Comment
Theremin-playing cat

For some reason, cats and keyboards go together just so darn well. What could be better than a cat playing a piano ? How about a cat playing a theremin!

Even though it hurts …

John Tesh Rocking an SH101 with the Zappa boys
April 21, 2010 – 9:22 am | 3 Comments
John Tesh Rocking an SH101 with the Zappa boys

In this video, we’ve got Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa performing with with John Tesh (composer and pianist, and of Entertainment Tonight fame) on the Conan O’Brian show. As cool as it is to see …

Best keyboard player dancing ever.
April 1, 2010 – 8:11 pm | 4 Comments
Best keyboard player dancing ever.

This is a video of Sabrina doing her top 5 80′s song “Boys Boys Boys”, off the album unsuprisingly called “Boys“. Although it’s pretty typical 80′s pop, the video is pure gold – the …

KORG Monotron
March 24, 2010 – 4:02 pm | One Comment
KORG Monotron

I’ve seen a lot of boutique makers with low-cost synths and DIY kits for synths, but I haven’t seen a major manufacturer some out with something like this in a long time:

KORG showed off their …

Without records
March 17, 2010 – 11:37 am | 2 Comments
Without records

What would it sound like if you took the record off the turntable and just let the needle hit the platter while it spins? How about 100 of them all playing at the same …

Moog: When you’re having more than one
March 15, 2010 – 5:00 pm | One Comment
Moog: When you’re having more than one

Edd Kalehoff is a noted keyboard player, having been featured in the Moog documentary, and he was also the keyboardist for several albums by a band called The Roches. He was also the …

Hitler finds out Edgar Winter can play the synthesizer better than he can
March 15, 2010 – 10:36 am | No Comment
Hitler finds out Edgar Winter can play the synthesizer better than he can

The Hitler remix thing has turned into quite an internet meme recently. For those who don’t know, people have been dubbing satirical dialogue over a scene from the movie, Der Untergang (The Downfall), which …

Vinyl record audio train
March 12, 2010 – 10:32 am | No Comment
Vinyl record audio train

Readers of SynthGear might already be familiar with Yuri Suzuki, the Japanese audio/electronic artist/musician. He brought us the Jellyfish Theremin and the Music Kettle, among other things.
In collaboration with Yaloslav Tencer, Yuri has …