Music Videos

This video shows several different users trying out the first iteration of the SynthMonster, which is sort of a circuit bent Tribble.

An interview via BeatPort, of Juan Atkins of Model 500, one of the godfathers of techno.

Peter Aidu plays Steve Reich’s Piano Phase, a work for two pianists, with with his left hand on one instrument and his right hand on the second.
While this is a unique performance and is a feat, the result seems to emphasize the synchronized phases of the two piano lines over the shifting phase relationships and […]

Somewhat OT: This horribly dated “educational” video reveals the shocking fact that “female deviation in normal sexual behavior greatly exceeds the male!”
It also kicks off with some ultra-cheesy old-school electronic music. If you know anything about this series or the music, let me know in the comments!

Here’s the latest Portishead video, for The Rip from their latest album, Third.
Neither the video nor the song do much for me, and they seem to have left what was good about their sound behind. Has Portishead jumped the shark?
Let me know what you think in the comments.

Paul Rubenstein (aka Ubertar) is a composer, musician, musical instrument inventor and recording engineer.
He may also be the coolest teacher ever.
He teaches a class called Building Music at Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools in Brooklyn. Students learn to build their own electric guitars, from winding their own electric pickups to designing the guitar […]

 

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Littlescale demos syncing Nanoloop, a real-time Gameboy sequencer/synth, to Ableton Live:
Part 1

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronised to the drums playing in Ableton (track 1). This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.
Part 2

GetLoFi has a roundup of videos and images from the Minneapolis Bent Fest 2008.

Part 1
Part 2

Above, Italy’s EraSer demonstrates his approach to layering glitch and bent sounds over a repeating background.

i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app,  developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu.
And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live!
i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you to configure […]

The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.

Analog Suicide’s Tara Busch visits Off The Wall Antiques to have a peek at the RCA-Victor “Electrified” Piano from 1939, a gorgeous Art Deco electroacoustic instrument.

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.