strange musical instruments
Articles about strange musical instruments:
If there was a musical instrument in The Matrix, it would probably look something like the Octopulse.
The Octopulse was created for the Yamaha Musical Instruments Research Lab.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
It shows that noise is music and is the principal musician of »The Alien Noise Orchestra« (work in progress), being the first of 4 different looking toy instrument characters that all produce different sounds.
With this cuddly »alien bagpipe« you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesizer to convert into cacophonous noises. This unconventional soundscape alters perceptions of what music could be and allows the electronic sounds of a synthesizer to be accessed by anyone.
Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter posed this short demo of a black Gristleism.
The Gristleism is described as a “Throbbing Gristle palm-sized loop playback machine.”
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Filed under: Controllerism, Electronic Instruments, Sequencers, Synthesizers
Yamaha today announced a new, budget version of it’s innovative Tenori On music synthesizer – the Tenori On Orange, TRN-O.
The TRN-O is an entry-level version of the Tenori On, offering the same basic musical functionality, but using orange LEDs, stripping away the backlighting LEDs and using a basic white plastic case.
Surprisingly for a budget item, Yamaha did not announce the pricing for the new Tenori On Orange. The TRN-O is expected to be available in December.
Yamaha also confirmed a free forthcoming firmware update for Tenori-On customers, expected to be available in January. The update will address the syncing of Tenori-On to external DAW applications and offer an improved MIDI sync implementation. Read more…
Dr. Bleep at Bleep Labs has introduced the Thingamagoop 2 – the next generation of their anthopomorphic synth robots.
New with the Thingamagoop 2:
- Arduino + Analog
- CV i/o
- Much more….
No pricing or release date have been announced.
