Moog Music is now shipping the Moog Guitar to five continents. Moog already has a backlog of orders, though – to the tune of $1.3 million. Early adopters include Lou Reed, Trent Reznor, James Valentine of Maroon 5, Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts, Joe Walsh, Hans Zimmer Studios, Chris Stein of Blondie and Fareed Haque… Read More Moog Guitar Now Shipping To Five Continents
Pink Floyd keyboardist and songwriter Rick Wright died today at the age of 65, after a short bout with cancer. Wright kept a surprising low profile, despite being a member of one of the most influential rock bands of all time. While other 70’s keyboard heroes were known for burning up the keyboards, Wright leaned… Read More Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright Goes To Great Gig In The Sky
Stan Warnow, who’s working on a film biography of quirky electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott, reports on finding a treasure-trove of Scott source material in Kansas City: Along with the Raymond Scott brain trust of Irwin Chusid, Jeff Winner and Gert-Jan Blom, I spent last week in Kansas City, MO at the Marr Archives at… Read More Raymond Scott In Kansas City
I’ve been listening to a lot of vinyl this weekend – but not the usual 70’s & 80’s classics. I went to a book sale at the Iowa fairgrounds, and they had a fairly large collection of records. Even more interesting, though, they had a lot of 78’s. And I happen to have a Victrola… Read More Vinyl Weekend
Mekentosj BV has announced the availability of Pianochords, an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to “easily look up all those nasty keyboard and piano chords”. Apparently, it’s designed for those times when you’re feeling too lazy to figure out what a C-Major chord is all yourself. Actually, some may find the… Read More Pianochords iPhone Chord Finder
Wired has an interesting look at NIN’s stage show, looking at how the band uses old and new technology to create spectacular images live: With more than 40 tons of lighting and stage rigging, hundreds of LED lights, a daunting array of professional and custom-built machinery running both archaic and standard commercial VJ software,… Read More Behind NIN’s Stage Show
Threadless has announced a new contest, and the winner will get a Thingamagoop synth. Here’s the story: Our doorbell here at Threadless broke, so the tech awesome dudes hacked together a magnificent replacement for it out of this super mega awesome noise making synthesizer robot! Our friends at Bleep Labs sent us a Thingamagoop, and… Read More Name A Doorbell, Win A Synthesizer
Leisuresonic has introduced Cosmovox, a new musical instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch, available now in the App Store. It looks like an interesting new iPhone synth – it’s motion controlled and has some interesting features, like support for Balinese gamelan scales. Better yet, it’s 2 bucks! Here’s the description, and don’t miss the… Read More Cosmovox Turns Your iPhone Into A Synthesizer
In this video, Richie Hawtin explains his live DJ setup – and defends digital DJing along the way, arguing that it frees him up to do things that were not possible with traditional DJing. via CDM
Earlier in the year, we highlighted a controversial ad for Deckadance DJ software, and asked for your thoughts on it. The ad, shown above, is dominated by a large image of a woman’s rear, with second woman swooning in minimal bathing attire under the first woman’s crotch. The post, and the ad, inspired a lot… Read More Image Line Apologizes For Controversial Deckadance Ad
