Music Videos

The League Of Electronic Musical Urban Robots‘ Eric Singer demonstrates the Slime-o-Tron - a controller that works by moving conductive slime around copper nails.
What do you think? Is this the most disgusting way to create music ever invented?

Collin Cunningham made a short video showing just a few of the many musical interfaces on hand at Bay Area Maker Faire.
“There were so many awesome instruments,” says Cunningham, “and so little time to play them all!”
If you’ve got any info on these bizarre creations, let me know in the comments!

As part of its hosting of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver will also host 10 major digital artists from around the world.
The artists will present work which enables citizens to discuss democracy in innovative ways. DJ Spooky of New York joined the mayor at the announcement of Dialog:City Monday, May 5, 2008. The event […]

Art Institute of Chicago student Chris Burke plays the “Interactopus,” an interactive sculpture controlling sound and live video through eight light sensors, an art bus board, and max/msp/gem.

First videos of the Chimera Synthesis BC16 miniature synth in action.
The bC16 miniature patch synthesizer wraps up a VCO, LFO, 24dB VCF, VCA, envelope generator, noise source, ring modulator and headphone amplifier all in a round, white acrylic housing the same diameter as compact disc.
Powered by six AAA batteries, the bC16 can be used on […]

AnalogSuicide’s Tara Busch checks out the miniature synth artwork of Dan McPharlin at the LA Modernism exhibit in Santa Monica, CA.

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronized to the drums playing in Ableton Live (track 1).
Says littlescale - “This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.”

A demonstration of ammobox, a new free virtual instrument that lets you scratch audio by triggering samples asyncronously with MIDI. The turntable provides velocity and rotation control.
Creator Nathan Ramella (aka Synthesizer Patel) says:
What you see on the screen is me dropping MIDI notes into an Ableton Live MIDI loop, as each note is hit, it […]

Travel blogger Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt) traced a sample around the world to its origin:
I went to the Solomon Islands to research the origins of Rorogwela, a traditional folk song that was sampled in Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest and reused in my dancing videos.
In the years 1969/1970, the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp […]

Isotope of Me got a new camera and decided to to get out the old anamorphic lens, which had sitting around gathering dust, and use it to make a psychedelic synth porn video.
The soundtrack is 3 passes of doepfer using midi synched LFOs to trigger envelopes and transpose the oscillators. All of the other usual […]

Nice intro video for the Hobnox Audiotool that offers an introduction to creating beats.
AudioTool is like Reason for your Web browser.

The latest video from Bomb The Bass, So Special, from the upcoming Future Chaos album.
It’s totally NSFW - so don’t try it unless you got away with the Benny Benassi video for Who’s Your Daddy?
In which case, how did you get the f****** awesome job?

Stereolab’s upcoming Chemical Chords LP, their first in four years, spawns its first video, a throwback to the cartoon psychedelia of the 1970s.

Wire to the Ear’s Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist) takes a look at D16’s Drumazon (software Roland TR-909) and Devastor (distortion unit):
I’ve owned a real Roland TR-909 for many years. In fact I bought mine from Chaka Kahn! I can honestly say Drumazon is a better replacement. It’s a joy to use and you get all […]

Matthew Davidson (Stretta) shared this short but sweet gear porn movie - “A two-minute visual tour of some of the interesting systems at AHNE this year. Like the previous Flicker set, only moving. And shakier. And blurrier.”