Techno Hoodies Turn Foreplay Into Weird Electronic Music

http://vimeo.com/8707261 Ewelina Aleksandrowicz’s Barbwired is a wearable art project that uses two wearable tech garments – what we call techno hoodies – stitched with FSRs ( force sensitive resistors ) and patches of conductive thread, to turn foreplay into weird electronic music: “Sensual feelings, toxic obsessions, intense emotions” Aleksandrowicz says, “are translated through physical contact… Read More Techno Hoodies Turn Foreplay Into Weird Electronic Music

Secrets Of The Optigan

Optigan.com’s Pea Hix demonstrates how the memorable music from this recent Chrysler Town & Country, above, was created using sound from an Optigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrGUJzA3a8 The Optigan was a home keyboard that was a proto-sampler. It used a photomechanical playback mechanism to read soundwaves from film disks.