Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …
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Luke Jerram is an artist from Bristol, England. When he proposed to his soon-to-be wife, he outdid us all: He made a ring out of silver and engraved it with a 20 …
A very long time ago in high school, I bought (with my parents’ help) a Korg Poly 800. I was so proud of that synth… until a friend of mine started making fun of …
3D printing has come a long way – there are now stores that will print 3D objects on demand like this one in Belgium. It really gets the imagination flying, thinking of all the …
In this clip from an old episode of Omni (hosted by Peter Ustinov), electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani describes working on the music and sounds for the 1980 pinball game, Xenon – one of …
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 …
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 …
Have you heard about the newest headphones from Wicked Audio called the Solus which is Latin for “be yourself”. Thanks to Wicked Audio for a review pair.
These DJ style headphones were create by Wicked Audio …
MrSolidSnake745 has put together eight floppy drives, an Arduino, some cabling, a computer and software created by Sammy1Am to make something incredible – the stepper motors from eight floppy drives playing the Dr Who theme!
Basically, …
Here is an interesting Performance Synth, an app that turns your iPad into a real time performance instrument.
This $5 app allows you to carry a complete, full featured, real time synthesizer around with you and have …
