Aero Synth (App Store link) that turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a simple synth music game. The company behind Aero Synth, Yudo Inc, has also released a free drum machine game, Aero Drum Free. Not serious music tools, but just some fun free electronic music games.
Twelth Root Studio’s Serge Modular may be the ultimate modular synthesizer – even if it does look a bit like it could chase after you and then eat your face. This distinctive analog modular synthesizer has been called The Beast, The Trilobite, The Nautilus, or The Jetson’s Telephone Patching System.
Nikolas Grigoriou & Nikos Moustakas‘ 3dots is an interactive audio/video installation, an interactive game, combining space, time and sound. The application was programmed with the open source tool ‘Processing’. Advanced image and signal processing techniques were employed to identify blobs from video real time captures and extract the spatial information needed. Audio and image playback is… Read More Interactive Audio Visual Installation Part Game, Part Virtual Environment
http://www.vimeo.com/2245907 Motion Lifestyle released this video that promises to show you how to go go dance to electronic music. Description: Dancer Katie Krause walks you through everything you will need to become an excellent gogo dancer. Included in this dvd are lessons in Electronic, Hip-hop, and Latin dance as well as a section on dancing… Read More How To Go Go Dance To Electronic Music
This is a little off topic, but it’s fascinating research that could have applications for music. Chris Harrison, a PhD Student, is researching using sound and gestures to turn any surface into an input device. Here’s the summary of his project: Scratch Input: Creating Large, Inexpensive, Unpowered and Mobile Finger Input Surfaces We present Scratch Input,… Read More Turn Any Surface Into An Input Device Using Sound
Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte gave a presentation to the Brussels Girl Geeks earlier this week on the why and history of AudioCubes and Percussa’s mission. Here are the slides from Schiettecatte’s presentation.
Moog Music is offering a free CP-251 Control Processor (normally $399) with the purchase of any Minimoog Voyager, Old School or Little Phatty synthesizer from an authorized Moog dealer through December 31, 2008, This is an awesome freebie – it basically turns your synth into a modular synthesizer. Based on Control Voltage technology, The CP-251 expands the sonic… Read More Moog Music Offers Awesome Freebie With New Moog Synth Purchases
New music sharing site SoundCloud has announced a Jazzanova remix contest: We’re really excited to tell you that Jazzanova are doing a remix contest for their new single ‘I Can See’ on SoundCloud. We just had a listen through the parts and it really sounds like a fun remix project to work on. Ben Westbeech… Read More Jazzanova Takes Remixing To The Cloud
iOscilloscope (App Store link) is a new $.99 app that turns your iPhone into a virtual oscilloscope that can measure sound waves in real time. iOscilloscope lets you do do several different things: FFT allows you to view the sound waves in Fast Fourier transform mode. Mute, mutes the sound so that there is no… Read More iOscilloscope Turns iPhone Into Oscilloscope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJKDeVAWk0 This version of Ooh La La, from the BBC4 Electric Proms 08 Goldfrapp special, brings out the blues side of the song.
