This is a short history of the Léode, bizarre electronic instrument used by French prog band Lazuli. This thing actually jazzes me up more than the Moog Guitar. The video is in French, but if you don’t know any French, you’ll still get the gist of the video. Don’t miss the nice looper performance at… Read More A Short History Of The Léode, A Bizarre Instrument Made By Frenchmen
Clockwork Robot has introduced a solar powered theremin kit: This is an electronics kit suitable for beginners but it DOES require some soldering. With very few parts you can build a tiny solar powered theremin enclosed in an ALTOIDS mint tin. So when the oil runs out, the ice caps melt and civilization crumbles to… Read More Build A Solar Powered Theremin
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… Read More Tesla Coils Do “Popcorn”
Things to Come Records posted some nice Flickr shots of the Voice of Saturn Sequencer & Synthesizer. These are a couple of cool synth DIY kits that should be suitable for even beginners.
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… Read More David Byrne’s Playing The Building
This is a cool idea: The August issue of Otona No Kagaku (Japanese for Adult Of Science) will be a synth themed edition called the Synthesizer Chronicle. It will feature interviews from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tomita and Fumitaka Anzai. With the magazine comes the SX 150 Gakken Analog Synthesizer – which appears to be a basic… Read More Buy A Magazine, Get A Free Synth
I’ve been checking out the info and videos on the Moog Guitar, and it looks like keyboardists are probably dismiss this as an expensive guitar that can sustain notes, but guitarists are going to freak out and drool over it. It’s not really a guitar synth, but what it does is offer really expressive sustain,… Read More Moog Guitar Lets Guitarists Get Their Moog On
The Moog Guitar is expected to debut at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville. “It’s not a guitar synthesizer; not a MIDI guitar; not an effects processor,” according to Moog Music President Mike Adams. “The guitarist is intimately connected to The Moog Guitar because it works its magic on the strings themselves.” The Moog Guitar… Read More Moog Guitar To Debut At Summer NAMM Show
Isidore is the funky modular synth of DamagedMeat: This video is a demonstration of the latest version of Isidore with a screen in the head displaying waveforms and Lissajou shapes comin’ out from the MFB Videoscope module. All sounds by Doepfer A100 except micromoog bass in the 1st part and little melody in the 2nd… Read More Isidore, The Modular Synth Robot
The Quantix-8 module is a CV Quantizer / Wavetable Oscillator based on a 4Mbits Static RAM memory and a PIC microcontroler with a full MIDI implementation. The memory contain 2048 waveforms of 256bytes organized into a matrix of 32 Banks x 64 Waves. The Quantix-8 is a very polyvalent 7 in 1 module CV-Quantizer Wavetable… Read More The Quantix-8 Synth Module
