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Joey Nariano [animal-style] demonstrates his GBC Gameboy Foot Controller.

 Arc Attack from Flipside 2008. 
ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation (an HVDJ set up) to generate an ‘electrifying’ audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA System while two specially designed DRSSTC’s (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments.
These machines produce an electrical arc similar [...]

Remember the news about David Byrne’s latest project, Playing the Building?
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 [...]

Remember the Radiohead remix using old computer junk?
Turns out there are all sorts of people making music with old computer junk. 
Check out the floppy drive music above and below:
 
via todayandtomorrow
 
 

Says cinnamonjuly: “I plugged up my Bleeplabs Thingamagoop to my EMS Synthi and it immediately started using the Synthi as some kind of weird transmitter to contact home.”

Developed at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Rui Pereira’s thesis, the TUIST (transformable uber interface for stardom) is a “multi-mode musical interface for super-star wannabes incapable of playing musical instruments.”
The instrument can be held different ways - like a guitar or stand-up bass, for example - and the sound that comes from it varies, based on [...]

David Byrne has announced the opening of his electroacoustic installation Playing the Building.
Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation transforms 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 consists of a retrofitted antique organ placed in the [...]

EM’s Geary Yelton has an interesting review of the Tenori-On.
Their take:
You could easily argue that the Tenori-on is not suitable for professional music production. It has no filters, LFOs, envelope generators, nor any of the user-programmable parameters you’d expect in a real synthesizer. It has only one oscillator per voice, and it provides no access [...]

One of the stranger projects we’ve seen recently is Casper Electronics’ circuit-bent double Barbie karaoke machines.
In the video, sounds are generated by the modular synth (right) and two heavily modified barbie karaoke machines which have been mounted into a single housing (top left).
The synth is feeding through and being processed by one of the [...]

Erica in Mexico needs your help. She’s got a boring maid job, and she would really rather be making music using strange electronic gear:
Hi i am erica and want to be a real sounding artist (sonidera) plaese right to me any advice
Somebody had better help Erica out soon. After seeing her unleash sheets of sound-noise [...]

BeatMachine - Amateur is a DIY project that uses a webcam and a computer to turn a sheet of paper and some bottle caps into a drum machine. 
This is totally MacGiver - but you gotta love it, too. Unfortunately, the creator’s site is in Polish. If you can read it, give us the run down in [...]

This strange music instrument is the Andes 25F - a flute keyboard!
It looks like a variation on the Suzuki Melodion. If you’ve got any info on this beast, let me know in the comments!
via SynthZoom

Let’s get this out of the way up front:
The Tablo, a new multitouch keyboard/drum controller integrating displacement and pressure, just doesn’t look as cool as other new music controllers, like the Tenori-On or even the MultiWind. 
In fact, it makes you look like you’re pitching a tent, instead of pitching a tune. 
Get beyond that, though, and you’ve [...]

Tony Amendolare at ElectroKraft has introduced Super Synth Drums - an NES cartridge that runs the machine into a drum synth.
Super Synth Drums is a genuine Nintendo NES cartridge that transforms your original NES, or clone system (Yobo, Generation Nex) into an 8 bit percussion instrument. Just plug the cartridge into your Nintendo NES system [...]

DJ Ruthless Ramsey rocks the decks
Somebody forgot to tell Ramsey that decks means “turntable” in DJ lingo, though!
You can see more of Ramsey at his MySpace page. 
via Califaudio