History of Synthesizers: 1950 to 1970
June 11, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment

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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Audio ring
January 7, 2011 – 9:20 am | No Comment
Audio ring

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 …

Analogue or digital?
January 5, 2011 – 11:47 am | 2 Comments
Analogue or digital?

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 …

Flute made on a 3D printer
January 4, 2011 – 4:53 pm | One Comment
Flute made on a 3D printer

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 …

Pinball Wizardry
January 4, 2011 – 11:33 am | No Comment
Pinball Wizardry

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 Kronos – guess what it is, and win a Korg Monotron!
January 3, 2011 – 11:54 am | 148 Comments
Korg Kronos – guess what it is, and win a Korg Monotron!

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 …

Access Virus vs Blender
January 2, 2011 – 7:36 pm | One Comment
Access Virus vs Blender

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 …

Diesel analog recording gear bedding
January 2, 2011 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
Diesel analog recording gear bedding

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 …

Incredibly fun tone generator
January 1, 2011 – 10:36 am | 7 Comments
Incredibly fun tone generator

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!

Audiophiles
December 31, 2010 – 11:20 am | No Comment
Audiophiles

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 …

Now that’s what I call MIDI!
December 22, 2010 – 9:04 pm | No Comment
Now that’s what I call MIDI!

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 …