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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47 awesome synth demos
January 12, 2010 – 11:35 pm | One Comment
47 awesome synth demos

You can find a ton of synth video demos on youtube, but it’s tough to find the good ones buried in all the junk. Luckily, user Jexus has compiled a treasure trove (47 to …

Mind-blowing vintage synth display
January 11, 2010 – 10:11 am | 2 Comments
Mind-blowing vintage synth display

Metunar from Austria created this video of the Synthesizer Meeting in Kufstein Austria that took place in 2009.
This is an incredible display of mostly vintage synthesizers that just makes me dream of being let loose …

Doctor Who – masters of sound
January 5, 2010 – 11:53 am | No Comment
Doctor Who – masters of sound

The video below is a look inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and a description of how the Doctor Who theme was created, all without synthesizers.
Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer and the rest of the crew at …

Music for 100 metronomes
December 31, 2009 – 11:59 am | No Comment
Music for 100 metronomes

Györgi Ligeti was a Hungarian composer who lived from 1923 until 2006 in Germany and Austria, and was considered by many to be one of the most imaginative composers in the last 50 years. …

Jean-Jaques Perrey on the Ondioline
December 30, 2009 – 10:25 am | One Comment
Jean-Jaques Perrey on the Ondioline

The Ondioline was one of the precursors to the traditional synthesizer – it was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented in 1941.
The neat thing about the Ondioline (and unlike most other keyboard instruments from the …

How to recreate Prodigy’s “Smack my bitch up”
December 29, 2009 – 10:45 am | No Comment
How to recreate Prodigy’s “Smack my bitch up”

Prodigy’s ledgendary track “Smack my Bitch up” from the album “The Fat of the Land” was mostly created with a number of samples. In this video, Jim Pavloff shows you how to recreate the …

Awesome synth guitar performance
December 28, 2009 – 7:07 pm | 3 Comments
Awesome synth guitar performance

Playing guitar on a synthesizer has been a cliche since the 80′s when Jan Hammer ripped it up on the theme to Miami Vice. I rarely hear synth guitar that I like, but this …

Cardboard Synth
December 21, 2009 – 11:38 pm | One Comment
Cardboard Synth

You could make a synth or noise box out of just about anything, and Konservendose created a synth out of a cardboard box and discarded gum wrappers for touch pads. Brilliant.
The LEDs are synched …

Trent Reznor before Nine Inch Nails
December 21, 2009 – 8:06 pm | No Comment
Trent Reznor before Nine Inch Nails

Before Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor was in a much lesser known band called The Exotic Birds. The Exotic Birds were a typical 80′s synthpop band from Cleveland, Ohio. They started up in 1983, …

Techno Bach: Laibachkunstderfuge
December 16, 2009 – 9:13 pm | One Comment
Techno Bach: Laibachkunstderfuge

Bach is definitely one of the most “covered” composers of all time, and during the time that he lived in Leipzig from 1723 until 1750, he wrote a strange body of work that seemed …