The Regeneration Tour – a chance to revisit some of top bands of the 80’s is underway, featuring the Human League, ABC, Belinda Carlisle, A Flock of Seagulls, and Naked Eyes on most dates, plus Missing Persons, the Romantics, 10,000 Maniacs, and Tommy Tutone on a select few. Dead or Alive, originally part of the… Read More Regeneration Tour Brings Back 80’s Synth (Hair) Bands
Circuitastrophe 2008 – a celebration of circuit bending, robotics, 8-bit music, hacking & electronic music will be held in Cincinatti Sept 4th & 5th, 2008. Reed Ghazala will be in the house. Here are the details:
Sapling is a freeware standalone sound-mangling application designed for both live use and studio work. It can be used to remix up to four audio files simultaneously and features randomization options, stereo reverb, and three filtering types. Work done in Sapling can be recorded direct to disk for further sonic manipulation. You can preview the… Read More Freeware Sound Mangling Software For The Mac
littleBits is an open source library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards, designed to make experimenting with electronics easy and fun. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small… Read More LittleBits Designed To Streamline Electronic Experimentation
Nodal is a free generative Macintosh software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is… Read More Free Generative Music Software For The Mac – Nodal
The Amsterdam Dance Event, a festival planned for October 23-25, has announced DJ’s and acts for the 2008 event: 2000 and One (NL), Abe Duque (US), Adultnapper (US), Agoria (FR), Alexander Robotnick (IT), Âme (DE) Andre Galluzzi (DE), Aril Brikha (SE) live, Armin van Buuren (NL), Artful Dodger (GB), ATFC (GB), Audio Bullys (GB), AudioJack… Read More Amsterdam Dance Event Names Confirmed
We recently saw a post on the Weirdest Guitars In The World – and, after taking a look, all I can say is that guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch. You haven’t seen weird, until you’ve seen some of the bizarre synth contraptions that keyboardists and electronic musicians have come up with. In fact, some of… Read More The Strangest Synthesizers In The World
David Battino has documented a boot-up hack that lets you create 4-bar loops with the Korg Kaossilator: While holding the Tap and Loop Rec buttons, slide the power switch from Standby to On. The display willl show DLY (delay) to confirm you’re in bufferless mode. Release the buttons. Hold down Loop Rec and Tap again;… Read More Korg Kaossilator 4-Bar Loop Hack!
Radiohead has written new music for the soundtrack to the new movie adaptation of Fight Club and Snuff author Chuck Palahniuk’s book Choke. Speaking to BBC 6 Music on the Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show, Palahniuk explained it all came from his love of the band’s music, saying: “Clark Gregg, who directed the movie version of… Read More Radiohead Score New Chuck Palahniuk Film
iZotope today announced that iDrum, its beat creation application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, is now available on the Apple App Store. The iDrum application takes advantage of unique features of the iPhone platform — users can tap virtual pads to create rhythms, shake the handset to clear patterns, and use slide and… Read More iDrum Turns Your iPhone Into A Drum Machine
