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The video demonstrates a mindblowing touch-enabling self-organizing map for automatically organizing and browsing a library of 600 electronic music songs.
The World’s Cutest Kitty DJ
We do our best to avoid “cute kitty with music gear” photos at Synthtopia. You can only get so excited about another shot of somebody’s cat peaking out of their Buchla modular synth or sleeping on their Korg OASYS.
Jaded as we may be, though, this is the cutest kitty DJ in the world.
Ohhhh, kitteh so [...]
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Filed under: Keyboard Synthesizers, Music News, Samples, Loops
Hollow Sun has announced plans for a new virtual instrument based on the rare and amazing Hammond Novachord – a polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1939!
The Novachord is sort of the B3 of synthesizers – a huge, unwieldy beast that sounds like nothing else.
Unlike the B3, though, the Hammond Novachord has largely been forgotten. They [...]
Generative Music Explained
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Control Analog Devices With MIDI
Michael Una looks at using the $44.95 Highly Liquid MD24 MIDI decoder kit to control a handmade analog bass line sequencer and drum machine via Ableton Live.
Why People Still Hate John Cage
John Cage is the subject of a new museum exhibition in Barcelona. The exhibit looks at Cage’s works in various media and his impact on all forms of contemporary art.
The New Yorker’s Alex Ross shares his thoughts on the highlights of the exhibit – but also raises this conundrum:
The great oddity of twentieth-century art history [...]
If you’re a Native Instruments Kontakt user, here are a couple of resources that you may want to check out for free Kontakt sound downloads:
ProToolerBlog has a large list of 27+ resources for free Kontakt sounds
Rekkerd has over 35 sources for free Kontakt sounds
If you’ve got other suggestions, leave a comment below!
Using Compression In The Mix
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Filed under: Computer Music, Electronic Musicians, Music News
Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965, when he was 17 years old, demonstrating his music-composing computer.
INTRODUCTION ‘Grime Eye’ – 140bpm by Nonclassical Records
Is the Turntable a musical instrument?
Can it work as a ‘classical’ instrument?
These were the first questions posed by idea of a Concerto for Turntables.
Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra (Heritage Orchestra Feat. DJ Yoda) attempts to answer those questions.
Should the turntable join the instruments of the [...]
