Moog Music has announced the dates for Moogfest 2008 – October 13, 2008. Description: Bob Moog’s namesake analog synthesizers helped catapult the careers of such diverse artists as rockers Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Gary Numan and Devo, funksters Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with disco diva Donna Summer, fusioneers Chick Corea with Return… Read More Moogfest 2008 Announced
This documentary tells the story of Paul Mawhinney and Record-Rama, the largest collection of vinyl LPs in the world. Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to… Read More The Story Of Record Rama
2008 marks the 5th anniversary of the Decibel Festival, an annual event held in Seattle that has now become one of North America’s preeminent electronic music events. For this year’s event, Decibel has planned its most ambitious festival to date; featuring more than 100 acts from 12 different countries, organized within 24 showcases at 11… Read More Decibel Festival 2008 Line-u0 Announced
The Compose music tablet is a design concept, by Ouyang Xi, He Binbin, Zeng Li & Li Bo, intended to provide a mobile composition solution. The pen acts as a mic that you sing into. When docked into the digital paper tablet, your vocal harmonies are automatically transcribed from the recording in the pen into… Read More Compose Music Tablet Concept
David Byrne & Brian Eno have released their new collaboration, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. You can stream it above. You can buy the release via their site, with these options: $8.99 – Immediate DRM-free MP3 download of the album at 320kbps + 17 page digital booklet $11.99 – All of the above +… Read More Preview Byrne & Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
We’ve mentioned binaural beats previously – illusory “beats” that you can hear when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. It’s an interesting psychoacoustic effect – one that at least some people think can help you do things ranging from concentrating to opening your chakras. Mainstream media has… Read More Binaural Beats Lead To Digital Drugs Madness
A demo showing using the stribe with an app called ‘scalar‘ by vlad spears. It is similar to ‘balron’ for the 40h. The stribes are divided into 8 sections, and so act sort of like a grid of buttons. The stribe is starting to look like it could develop into an interesting companion project to… Read More Stribe + Scalar
Yves Usson has posted details on a new synth module design, the Octal Random Gate: When I designed this module, I had in mind to control a Moog 960 sequencer in a random fashion, but many other applications may be imagined. On the 960 sequencer, a single step can be selected directly by it’s IN… Read More YuSynth Octal Random Gate Module
The ANS synthesizer (named after Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin) is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin between 1937 to 1957. The synthesizers uses cinematography, which makes it possible to “photograph” a sound wave, as well as synthesizing a sound from a drawn sound wave. Stanislav Kreichi explains the significance of this rare… Read More The ANS Photoelectronic Synthesizer
Silicon Studios has published a variety of iPhone MIDI apps in the iTunes App store, including the free app ITM MidiLab. They call ITM MidiLab their “showroom” to demo what their other apps are capable of. It lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a MIDI controller for your favorite audio software, synths… Read More Free App Turns Your iPhone Into A MIDI Controller
