Strange

Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principle of binaural beats as described in the October 1973 Scientific American article Auditory Beats in the Brain (Gerald Oster).
It can be used to synthesize sounds that affect the brain. Here’s a demo. It should be listened to using headphones:

 

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The !Malfunctionator is a DIY synth project, designed to be “a handy UFO dector doubling up as a Electro Music Device.”
It consists of 3 oscillators, each modulated by 3 low frequency oscillators. The oscillators are based around the hex invertor IC known as CD40106 aka 7HC04; the wave froms produced from this logic device are […]

 

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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!

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 […]

Moo Cow Music’s Band lets you record tunes on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Do you think these iPhone apps are anything more than music toys?

Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by David Byrne, will transform the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.”
Byrne’s project will consist of a retrofitted antique organ placed in the center of the building’s cavernous second-floor gallery […]

Animated adventures of techno art collective The Pod. The Pod are a “late eighties electronic dance outfit trying to cope with the mid nineties post rave come down.”
Says creator Tim Hope: “I made this about five years ago and has never really been seen except at a few screenings and festivals. Stars myself and Julian […]

xelent’s Tape Delay Machine uses two Walkman type tape players, a Realistic Stereo Mate and a Memorex XB, to create a tape delay. It’s Frippertronics on the cheap!
A single tape loop runs through two modified cassettes (each which have had one of their left or right sides removed). The players themselves have had there walls […]

Interesting synth DIY project, via noystoise, the Mouse Trap features quad frequency modulating oscillators built with 556 timers.
The oscillator frequencies are controlled by a quadruple pot joystick. two of the four have switches to add a slow decay. The mouseball changes the pitch of the oscillators randomly. The thumb wheel pot sets the minimum frequency […]

Hamster Sammy enjoys improvising on an Opal Sonome:
She gives herself a little wash and clean while holding down a minor 9th chord! The plastic sphere is her means of transport while chasing humans across the kitchen floor, her equivalent to a skateboard or bike.
The Opal Sonome looks substantially similar to the C-Thru Axis that we […]

Sometimes it seems that there’s no end to the types of MIDI controllers that people come up with.
Want proof? Here’s are some of the strangest MIDI controllers we’ve seen:
Using Pennies As A Drum Controller

That’s just of start of it. Read on for MIDI Hamsters, MIDI Drivers’ Licenses and more!

Q. What’s the difference between a bagpipe and an onion?
A. No one cries when you chop up an bagpipe.
Glamorous MIDI controllers like the Tenori-On get all the press, but MIDI bagpipes are where the real action is.
There’s a significant amount of work being done in the area of bagpipe-style MIDI controllers. And it’s no surprise […]

This iPhone synthesizer video is making me lookforward to iPhone apps in iTunes.
FYI - this is just the latest of many iPhone music software stories.