Prosoniq has announced that it’s killing off its Windows products, effective June 1st, 2009. Existing Windows products will continued to be sold until that date, and updates will be available until the end of 2009. Users who wish to crossgrade from the latest version of their Windows product to the Mac counterpart can do so… Read More Prosoniq Discontinues Windows Products Because Of Pirates
Tanner Menard, Antenna Gallery and Experimedia Records plan to present Sommeil: Concert for Sleep in New Orleans on April 11-12. Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday, April 11th, and ending on Sunday, April 12th, at 7:00 am. Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while live ambient and environmental… Read More The Sommeil Sleep Concert
Image: Imajilon OptoSonoria Mk ll Gorgeous design for Imajilon‘s Opto-Sonoria project. The Opto-Sonoria is an opto-electric musical instrument that is played by moving the optical pickups over patterns printed on paper. The patterns are placed on the horizontal surface and are back-lit by a small lamp located at the bottom of the tapered housing. via… Read More Gorgeous Steampunk Instrument Design – The OptoSonoria Mk ll
Brian Eno is curating this year’s Vivid Sydney Fest, being held May 28 to June 14 in Sydney, Australia. Here are the details: Sydney Opera House presents Luminous – an annual festival of music, debate, light and performance. Curated by Brian Eno, this inaugural year features a plethora of music acts alongside public talks and… Read More Brian Eno Curating Sydney Music Fest
Image: derek olson Dorit Chrysler playing a Theremin at the 2008 EtherMusic Festival. Held at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. Photo by Derek Olson (Peak Definition) via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
Image: altemark I’ve seen a lot of cat + synth pictures, but this is one of the few that I’ve liked. Maybe it’s because he’s sitting on a Future Retro Revolution – or maybe it’s because it looks like he’s actually jamming on it!
Image: Chris_Carter_ Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter reports that “Our only (and as far as we know the last) surviving original Gristleizer died today, it was Cosey’s own model from 1977.” “We were about to start running some LFO test on it for Charles Howes, who is designing and making the new Gristleizer reproductions, when it… Read More This Gristleizer is Dead – Long Live The Gristlizer
Gary Kellum an Alain Crevoisier have created a cheap process for turning physical objects into musical instruments and other multi-touch controllers. Can you imagine printing out a music sequencer? Or printing out a photo of a Roland TB-303 and then being able to play it?
In case you were wondering – here’s how you make beats: via axehole
Noise Addicts has shared the rules to a fun way to name your band, choose your album cover art and name your album, with a little bit of randomness, and some help from Wikipedia, Flickr and Quotationspage. Here are the rules: Go to Wikipedia and hit “random” and the first article you get is the… Read More Name Your Band, Create Your Album Cover With Wikipedia & Flickr
