The iAno is – you guessed it – a virtual piano for the iPhone. This is available now as a free download for jailbroken iPhones. Let’s hope that when Apple officially opens up the iPhone to developers that they let everybody get at this sort of delightful weirdness. Features A complete four octave keyboard. Multi-touch.… Read More iPhone Piano
Stephen Hobley has put together a collection of information on how to build a laser harp. Here’s a video of the laser harp in action:
The MidWest Homemade Experimental Electronics Showcase will be held Sat, Feb 16th in Chicago. The show starts at 10:30 and the lineup includes: Roth Mobot (www.RothMobot.com) Créme DeMentia (www.MySpace.com/CremeDeMentia) Talking Computron (www.MySpace.com/TalkingComputron) Factory Smoke (www.MySpace.com/FactorySmoke) Sounds Happy (www.MySpace.com/SoundsHappy) Cliplead (www.ClipLead.com) The venue is a low key little bar called Hotti Biscotti located on 3545 W… Read More MidWest Homemade Experimental Electronics Showcase
Found on YouTube – a device described as a wacky organ synth drum machine thing. What would you call it?
We’ve seen some strange musical instruments in our days, but this probably takes the prize. United States patent 5163447 is for a Force-Sensitive, Sound-Playing Condom – aka, the musical condom. The musical condom looks and acts like a traditional condom but it incorporates “a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer (18) which plays a melody or voiced… Read More Musical Condom Opens New Worlds Of Musical Expression
Vision Systems Design, an engineering tech journal, has an interesting discussion on the technology behind the Reactable synthesizer interface. The Reactable, developed by researchers at the Pompeu Fabra University, is a tangible interface for manipulating synth sounds built from an off-the-shelf camera, computer projector, PC, and a custom-built light-table. The Reactable hardware is based on… Read More Secrets Of The Reactable’s Pattern Recognition
The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year. We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for… Read More The 2008 Winter NAMM Show Synthgasm
Nick’s World Of Synthesizers is a trip to bizarre DIY synthville. The video gives you a taste of what Nick’s been up to, but you have to visit his site to check out his really interesting, complex creations. Here’s his DIY philosophy: I have been making electronic musical instruments for about 10 years. With all… Read More Nick’s World Of Synthesizers
Trash Audio interviewed Doepfer Synthesizer’s Dieter Doepfer at the 2008 NAMM Show, and talked to him about his background/life/history.
The long-awaited Future Retro XS semi-modular analog synthesizer is now available. According to designer Jered Flickinger (interview link), the Future Retro XS is intended to be used as either a rackmount or desktop instrument, and its compact size makes it ideal for musicians on the go. Flickinger’s work is always interesting. I’ve got a FR… Read More Future Retro XS Semi-modular Analog Synthesizer
