Start the new year off right with a visit to ZProd, the home of electronic artist Paul Granjon. Granjon creates unique machines, some of which are part robot, part musical instrument, and part performance art. Techno Inferno is a miniature electro-mechanical drum machine that produces a 3-minute long techno track. A streaming film demonstrates how… Read More Robot Skull Techno Drum Machine
UK readers – ever wonder why music gear costs so much? One reason may be all the people that play Stairway to Heaven, La Grange and (keyboardists) the Lucky Man synth solo when they go to music stores. According to the BBC, music stores in the UK have to pay a fee to cover for… Read More The Real Reason Gear Cost So Much in the UK – Smoke on the Water?
Electronica band SubAtomicGlue has a great step-by-step, blow-by-blow account of building and troubleshooting an x0xb0x kit. They call it the xoxl0g. If you’re not familiar with the x0xb0x, it’s a circuit-accurate recreation of the electronics of the popular TB-303 bassline synth, with an updated sequencer and some goodies like MIDI and USB connectivity. The blog… Read More Building an x0xb0x Synth
The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music (SCREAM) and NewTown Pasadena are presenting a free encore performance of a program of new works for video with electro-acoustic music scores at the Disney Hall at the California Institute of the Arts on January 8th. The international program will include works by Kristine Burns (USA), Richard Carbonell… Read More SCREAM at Disney for Electro-Acoustic Music
Recordare LLC, an Internet music software and publishing company, has released version 3 of its Dolet plug-in for the Sibelius 4 music notation program. Dolet 3 for Sibelius writes MusicXML 1.1 files for the highest-fidelity translation available between music notation programs. Dolet 3 also includes a batch translation feature to automate the process of moving… Read More Sibelius Plug-in Exports Music XML
Reboot Stereophonic is an outgrowth of Reboot, a network which engages some of the most talented young Jewish creatives in the music, film, television, technology, politics, literature and media realms. More importantly, they’ve released Gershon Kingsley’s God is a Moog. God is a Moog is a double album featuring recordings from 1968 to 1974 in… Read More Reboot Stereophonic: God is a Moog
It looks like Moby is reopening the white-boy rap / electronica artist feud. A recent post to his online journal, i’d like to write about misogyny, lays the smack-down on The Prodigy and eminem over their use of misogynistic lyrics. “i respect the prodigy and i respect eminem as talented and relevant musicians, but i… Read More Moby Lays Smackdown on Eminem, The Prodigy
A new version of the free audio editor Audacity has been announced. A beta version is available, but it is not considered stable yet. The software is popular with musicians and podcasters looking for a free, open source audio editing environment. Several features will be especially interesting for podcasters, including FTP uploading, transcription tools and… Read More Audacity 1.3 Update Adds Features for Podcasting
Algorithmic Arts has freeware Modular Synth Layout generators for Windows that provide modular synth enthusiasts another way to dream big. According to the site, “These programs are for the modular synthesizer enthusiast, to help you dream the big dreams. They make it easy and quick to try out different module layouts by simple point and… Read More Free Synth Layout Generators Let You Dream Big
A new German synth, the RozzBox, appears to be on the way. Full details are not available at the site yet, but it looks like pricing will start at 560 euros. The synth will have four oscillators, plus noise external input and ring modulation. Two digital filters, a high pass/low pass filter and a 24dB/octave… Read More New German Synth Sighted
