Looks incredibly ridiculous but could be really cool. Some how though i doubt that the soloing in the video is real. It seems to difficult to play something like a harmonica that faster and precise. None the less it is an interesting concept. Edit: Rock Erickson kindly corrected my doubts about the solo in the [...]
I have this recent fascination with the idea of making my own record player and even my own records. It seems to be simpler than most think. But to make a record player that was aesthetically pleasing is another thing. If only Teenage Engineering made these DIY kits available. Links about making records: http://gieskes.nl/gramophonerecorder/
Using the harmonic table, I think this controller uses the hands the most effectively of any instrument. Extremely complex compositions could be played fairly easily, just as long as the player gets over any preconcieved ideas of playing music. There is a small usb controller coming out and it is definitely a canidate on my [...]
One of the best instruments is the Reactable. Being a reacting table, if a wave generating object is placed on the table the appropriate sound is generated and is visualized by the wave which goes towards the center of the table from the object. Other objects are placed on the table to further add or [...]
Bre Pettis finds and meets many interesting people. One of those people would be Christopher Palmer, who presented his Arca Musarithmica at Robogames. CTP’s Awesome Musical Robot from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
David Byrne is somewhat how I envision myself in thirty years. Seems a little quarky and is creating the most amazing inovative things out of normal everyday things. Using merely an old organ of sorts and connecting it via electrical cables to various electromagnets throughout an old warehouse using the parts of the warehouse to [...]
With the iPhone over time has come an array of interesting applications such as vintage photo plug-ins. One such program is TouchOSC. Christopher Willits, who does a podcast where he shows tips and tricks around the studio, shows how to use TouchOSC, patching it through Max/Msp to Ableton Live. Hopefully I will post another instrument [...]
Kanta Horio, a very inventive artist, seems to create various moving pieces out of normal every day objects. One of these pieces is called Particles where Kanta uses electromagnets controlled by a computer to make pieces of paper clips rattle. Then attached to the wood board there appears to be two microphones which pick up [...]
During this Christmas break, while surfing the internet, I have been finding numerous interesting musical device. So I hope to post at least one per day for a while, maybe till the end of the break. First off is probably my favorite, the Monome. Basically a grid of buttons, its options are endless as long [...]