The video quality is pretty poor, but these fan videos show that Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet are staying true to their sound with their live version of their Yaz electropop classics. Here are the remaining dates for their tour: 07 July Oakland, CA Paramount Theatre [sold out] 08 July Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre… Read More Yazoo (Yaz) Live In Copenhagen
Ultravox’s John Foxx has an ongoing ambient music project, Cathedral Oceans, and he has created abstract videos to accompany the music. Here are a few review excerpts, via the Cathedral Oceans blog. “Cathedral Oceans is an ongoing project that stretches back many years and explores ambient sound, washes of reverberated vocals and strings like no… Read More John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans
In 2006, ShowStudio filmed a series of film shorts designed to explore The Sound of Clothes. Anechoic is a ‘collections story’ project that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio -a hemi-anechoic chamber- on 1 June 2006… Read More NSFW Videos Reveal The Sound Of Clothes
Last year, we published an item about the animatronic robots of Showbiz Pizza Palace/Chuck E Cheese getting reprogrammed to perform gangsta rap, including a cover of Miss New Booty. Lots of people have fond memories of visits to see these cheesy robots as kids, and videos of the reprogrammed robots went on to become hits… Read More New Movie Looks At How The Rock-afire Explosion Came To Cover “Miss New Booty”
Motion Samples has released five new downloadable sample libraries. Here are their descriptions: Sequential Synths – over 400 loops of pumpin’ analog fx and synth rhythms for producing various styles of minimal house and techno. Inside you’ll find tons of useful loops of pad sweeps, ambient fx, sequenced modular synths, phat bass grooves, screeching oscillators… Read More Motion Samples Intros 5 New Sample Libraries
touched echo is an electroacoustic artwork that uses bone conduction to take people back in time: The visitors of the Brühl’s Terrace (Dresden, Germany) are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid on 13th February 1945. In their role as a performer they put themselves into the place of the… Read More Art Work Uses Bone Conduction To Send You Back In Time
Xoxox has released Friction, a new VST designed to synthesizer friction effects: The friction algorithm is combined with a 2nd order mass-spring and two waveguide resonances for flexible emulative application. Presets include squealing tires, squeaky hinges and axles, ww2 bombs, swingsets, etc. The license is $15 (or $10 for current customers). The demo removes some… Read More New Synth Explores Friction Synthesis
OT: Australian dance Diva Kylie Minogue became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Thursday, receiving the award from heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles at a ceremony in London. “It is an incredible honour for me to receive this award,” said Kylie. “It makes me feel both humble and proud to be recognized for… Read More Kylie Honored By Prince Charles For Being Scorchingly Hot Dance Diva
AudiOdyssey is a free experimental computer game designed to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers. AudiOdyssey was developed with four research goals: The visually-impaired and the sighted can enjoy the same level and quality of gameplay Navigate game’s menus with ease and efficiency approaching that of conventional user-interfaces (UIs) Create… Read More Free Experimental DJ Game Explores Accessibility Issues
Ueberschall has announced Trance ID 2, a new Elastik Soundbank sound library focusing on trance music. Description: Trance ID2 incorporates the latest trends in the genre such as Neo-, Electro-, and Tech-Trance, as well as elements from Progressive and Minimal. The construction kits on Trance ID 2—powered by the Elastik Loop Player—offer cutting-edge drum loops,… Read More Ueberschall Intros New Trance Construction Kit
