Roboclarinet is a robotic clarinet player, designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA, that has won first prize at an international orchestra competition. The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine. Staged in Athens, the goal of… Read More Roboclarinet
3 synthesizer Bach chorales (Switched on XioSynth) was uploaded by: syntesen
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Timothy Renalto’s The Bad Hand is a sort of plasma theremin. It doesn’t really improve on the idea of the theremin, but it does look pretty awesome. via MusicThing
[display_podcast] David Byrne is keeping busy. While he just opened his audio installation Playing the Building, he’s working on a new project, involving animatronic robots. Byrne explains: About a year ago, I was approached by some Spanish curators to participate in a show scheduled to open at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid… Read More David Byrne’s Creepy, Amazing Voice Of Julio
Need an excuse to blow a bunch of money on WII stuff? Here you go: BodySurf is a script for GlovePIE that rigs up the Wii Balance Board to play Audiosurf, the music game that lets you ride the boogie. It is full-featured, with a strong focus on player immersion and ease of user interface.… Read More Wii Balance Board + Audiosurf + Motion Controls = Awesome
Last year, we brought you some great video of game creator Will Wright and Brian Eno on generative systems. Here’s the whole enchilada – their Long Now discussion of Spore and generative music and gaming. They touch on all sorts of topics, but it includes great discussions of generative processes and ambient music, fractals, compression… Read More Will Wright & Brian Eno On Generative Music & Gaming
This is a short history of the Léode, bizarre electronic instrument used by French prog band Lazuli. This thing actually jazzes me up more than the Moog Guitar. The video is in French, but if you don’t know any French, you’ll still get the gist of the video. Don’t miss the nice looper performance at… Read More A Short History Of The Léode, A Bizarre Instrument Made By Frenchmen
We’ve talked about brain music before – everything from brain music therapy to binaural brain beat synthesizers to hardcore brain-controlled synth action to bogus stories about dudes controlling synths with mind bullets. It’s hard to believe, but it looks like there may be a commercial future for brain music medicine. According to a Fox News… Read More Using Brain Music To Fight Migraine Headaches
Clockwork Robot has introduced a solar powered theremin kit: This is an electronics kit suitable for beginners but it DOES require some soldering. With very few parts you can build a tiny solar powered theremin enclosed in an ALTOIDS mint tin. So when the oil runs out, the ice caps melt and civilization crumbles to… Read More Build A Solar Powered Theremin
Tim Prebble demonstrates effects made with bowed cymbals. Bowed cymbal sounds interesting forward and backwards, as the video shows. The question I have is this: if you play a cymbal with a bow, is it still a percussion instrument? More at the Substation site.
