Articles tagged with: controller
What do you get when you combine 2 trombones, and Eigenharp, 2 wii nunchucks and Robocop? Evidently you get first prize at Georgia Tech’s 2010 Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition.
The Georgia Tech Center …
The hipDisk was conceived and developed during Craft Australia’s three-week summer residential lab focused on wearable technology. The idea is that the hipDisk is meant to be a “a wearable interface that extends …
Franz Keller has come up with Metal frame into which you clip an ipad and/or other music gear, turning it into a keytar.
From their promo material:
Sturdy hand cut plexiglass body holds iPad, Kaoss Pad and …
The Rain Drum is an invention in the concept stage by Dong Min Park. It’s an umbrella that features various drum sounds, promising to make your rainy day much more interesting.
When the rain …
Cocky Eek’s Tactile Research Lab has created an art-installation-meets-musical-instrument-meets-organic-weirdness. Called the “Get in Touch” exhibit, it invites the public to create sounds by touching the backs of nude people in an effort to help …
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 …
Alex Braidwood a graduate student within the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design and has worked on a number of art projects involving sound and music.
In this video, Alex demonstrates a …
Yoshi Akai is an artist, musician and instrument designer from Tokyo, Japan. Yoshi has been producing DIY musical instruments with very unique input systems as works of art, and using them in performances.
The work …
Kyle Evans is a musician and DIY electronic tinkerer. He’s come up with a fantastic instrument/controller called the “Electronically Modified Didgeridoo”. It’s a regular digeridoo with pickups inside and all sorts of Battlestar …
The Octopulse is in practical terms, a knitted synthesizer that was made to turn “unapproachable technology into an easily approachable, tactile and emotional object”.
Developed for the Yamaha Musical Instruments Research Lab, this crazy looking alien-bagpipe-thing …
