From our trip to Namm, we brought you video of Metasonix‘ Eric Barbour introducing his G-1000 23 tube amplifier Fucking Fucker guitar amp. Eric wasn’t demoing the amp, though. Fortunately, the guys at Big City Music have posted a video that gives you a taste of what this thing can do:
The Neuronium is a bizarre little limited-edition synth that I had a chance to play around with at the 2007 NAMM show. It’s another device that’s tricky to wrap your brain around, because it is designed for creating electronic music in new ways, with new approaches to synthesis, rather than recreating or tweaking classic synth… Read More Jomox Resonator Neuronium
Big City Music has posted a couple of YouTube videos that demo the Analogue Systems rs370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator. They’re worth checking out – the rs370 is something different for the world of analog modulars and isn’t easy to wrap your brain around, as a result. Analogue Systems rs370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator 6-voice polyphonic harmonic… Read More Analogue Systems rs370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator
The Tenori-On, which previously had been available only in the UK, is now getting a global launch. Yamaha has announced launch dates in: Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany Paris, France Montreal, Quebec New York, NY San Francisco, CA Tokyo, Japan The events will include presentations by inventor Toshio Iwai and performances by early Tenori-On users. As… Read More Tenori-On Launch Dates Announced
A demo of the Moo Cow Music Drummer. Features: A 15 sample Drum Pad for your iPhone / iPod Touch. Multi-touch. Up to 5 pads can be pressed at once. Animated pads illuminate at your touch. Play along to all your MP3s. Change between drumkits at the touch of a button. The following kits come… Read More iPhone Drum Machine
An introduction to the MIDIbox 808 project – a DIY Roland 808 clone & sequencer. Looks like a great companion to the x0xb0x.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQAfx5drFg Percussa‘s Bert Schiettecatte offers an inside view on creating and testing the AudioCubes, the first commercially available tangible interface technology in the world. Schiettecatte also repeatedly drops boxed AudioCubes, over and over and over. And then maybe a couple of more times. More on the AudioCubes here and here.
This is one of the stranger bent instruments I’ve seen – a sort of steampunk Furby sequencer by nervoussquirrel. Here’s what nervoussquirrel has to say about the Furby sequencer: Each furby has 4 controls: mute, crash, loop and reset. The handle turns 8 cams which operate corresponding microswitches to create interesting rhythmic patterns. Part of… Read More Steampunk Furby Music Sequencer
To promote the art of circuit bending and the BENT festival, Absurdity.Biz has uploaded the first BENT Festival dvd online in its entirety. Shot at the first international circuit bending festival in 2004 at the TANK in NYC for Absurdity.Biz’s ongoing Circuit Bending documentary, it later became a side-project DVD series sold at the BENT… Read More Free Circuit-Bending Documentary
Bighead Electronics is selling a limited edition pre-modded C64, the Bent64 (eBay). The system comes completely loaded Paul Slocum’s Cynthcart, a custom program which helps the heavily modded Commodore produce a wild cacophony of retro noise as you press keys on the keyboard. It’s still fully functional as a standard C64, too, with the flip… Read More Bent64 –
