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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Korg has released a teaser video of the new Korg Kronus that will be unveiled at NAMM 2011. Details are extremely sketchy, but they talk about it in terms that indicate that it’s supposed …
No, this isn’t another one of those “will it blend?” videos – Hailing from Denver, Colorado, Analogger attempts to “perform a shotgun marriage between conventional instruments and random sound generation” with his music. The …
ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it – that you can actually play. The ‘synth’ on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!). It …
While I don’t think that I’m really part of Diesel’s target demographic, I think their their “SoundSystem” bedding set is pretty darn awesome.
It’s a duvet cover plus pillowcases set printed with pictures of analog audio …
Happy New year! Here’s an incredibly addictive Tenori-on-like tone matrix generator/sequencer for you to play with. Click on the squares, and press the spacebar to clear…. enjoy!
Although not strictly synthesizer-related, I thought that this comic from xkcd was something everyone might enjoy.
Without trying to philosophize too much, I think it can help remind us all not to focus on …
Internet Archaeology is an organization that “seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture.”
Basically, they want to save early internet content to acknowledge its importance, and save …
We’ve covered Daito Manabe before, demonstrating his DIY project where he stimulated muscles in his face to the beat of music.
With the help of Masaki Teruoka, Daito has created a new project, which …
The Elektron Octatrack DPS-1 promises to pretty much be “Ableton Live in a box”. Whether or not it lives up to this, I don’t know, but I do know that the following …
For your pleasure is a scan from Electronics Illustrated’s June 1960 issue, describing the Theremin. It’s a great read – they almost sound like they’re describing some strange alien device, and it definitely gets …
Selwyn House School is an all-boys school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. For computer class, one of their teachers brought in a 30 year old Roland TR-808 drum machine for the students to play with.
Here’s …
The cactus in the video below seems to be special – it can be played! Yes, this cactus is a playable musical instrument. In the video below, you see someone playing …
Korg has released pictures of a new product called the “korg Monotribe”. Based on the name, it sounds like some sort of cross-breeding of the Korg Monotron and Korg Electribe. The picture seems …
