There’s been an explosion recently of theremin videos on YouTube. It looks like it may be moving from being stereotyped as an exotic sci-fi instrument…..to being regarded as the electronic equivalent of the banjo. With that in mind….here are ten things that I thought I’d never hear played on the theremin: The Legend of Zelda… Read More Ten Things I Thought I’d Never Hear On The Theremin
Playing the Star Trek Theme with your WII remote is sort of stupidtastic. It’s also a cool demo, though, of how a cheap game controller can be repurposed to control the Osc Frequency of a Moog:
The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer is an additive synth developed in Quebec, Canada during the late 1980s. Its architecture is based on sine-wave oscillators that are each assigned amplitude and pitch envelopes to form the component harmonics of a sound. The major innovation of the Acxel was, according to Technos, resynthesis. The idea is to sample… Read More The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer
Infection Music has announced that the pilot build of its unique Zeit desktop sequencer has been completed. They call the Zeit the world’s best hardware sequencer and at £1199, it’s certainly one of the most expensive. You can preview a demo of the Zeit in action, below. Here are the specs:
If there’s any doubt the we are in the golden age of wireless, check out the Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam from the Ether and AEther Experiment: Nice theremin work and great video production values. Note also the bizarre carpet massage effect. Here’s how the Ether and AEther Experiment explains the video: The main theremin… Read More The Ether and Aether Experiment Does Gnarls Barkley
The monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons, designed to be an open-ended musical interface. The buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems. When the monome was introduced, the biggest question I had was whether the device’s minimal design would lend itself to expressive… Read More Monome Videos
Circuit bending is the process of creatively short-circuiting cheap electronic devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. If you’re not familiar with it, you might want to check out this short preview for the circuit bending documentary by Derek Sajbel. The video features Q.R. Ghazala,… Read More What is Circuit Bending?
If you’ve seen images of Monolake performing, you may have wondered about the unique instrument he uses, the Monodeck II: In this video, Monolake jams with the Monodeck II: Monolake, aka Robert Henke, uses a custom MIDI controller, along with Max, to control Ableton Live. He calls the Monodeck II “an industrial grade prototype.” Here’s… Read More Monolake’s Awesome Monodeck
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UK synth guru Tom Bugs’ BugBrand offers a constantly expanding and mutating range of electronic sound & effect devices, all built by hand in Bristol, singly or in small batches. “All designs mix experimental audio circuitry with ideas taken from the techniques of circuit bending, and bring together many different controls and playing methods to… Read More Bugbrand: The Superfreaky Synth Designs of Tom Bugs
