OT: This music video, for the song Again and Again by Bird & the Bee, makes really clever use of various features of Mac OS X, creating a constantly changing visual interpretation of the music, despite limited resources. Very cool!
At the 2008 Maker Faire, IEEE Spectrum caught up with Andrew Turley, who had turned a microfiche into a musical instrument. Using a simple photodiode, the keyboard plays notes based on how light the center of the screen is.
Steppers are an interesting music controller designed for 5-year olds: As a group, we hoped to make a toy that not only encouraged physical activity, but that also acted a clear and direct musical interface. Steppers transform walking, dancing, running, and jumping into a unique and dynamic activity, allowing the user to express themselves audibly… Read More Experimental Music Controllers For 5-Year Olds
This new video by Richard Lainhart, Pneuma, is based on growth patterns generated by cellular automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural. We previously highlighted another cool visualization by Lainhart, Lux, The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular… Read More Warning: This Modular Synth Video May Give You Seizures
Speaker Synth is an interesting synth DIY project – a five-speaker array with no external audio input, created by Lesley Flanigan. The only components in the system are the instrument’s speakers, piezoelectric microphones, amplifying circuits, and the hands of the performer. Speaker Synth is played by positioning individual piezo microphones with their corresponding speakers and… Read More Speaker Synth
A quicky video demonstrating the sonic mangling capacity of the Wiard Wogglebug. The Wogglebug is an analog electronic instrument designed by Grant Richter, and inspired by Don Buchla. Grant has made the circuit available to the synth DIY community, and versions are showing up in all types of modular formats.
A little modular synth porn flic demonstrating the polyphonic “switch on time” feature of the Moon Modular M563: People asking: “What is SWITCH ON TIME”? at the M563 trigger sequencer. With SOT you can define and optimize the width of your trigger/gate output signal.There are more creative possibilities: e.g. the SOT function manipulates the envelope… Read More Moon Modular Switch On Time Action
A nice modular jam session from shadofac. What’s nice about this video is that he avoids most of the common modular synth cliches that show up in a lot of YouTube jams. Here’s the gear rundown: Sounds by synthesizers.com modular controlled by Mobius sequencer controlled by MIDI keyboard, and Moog theremin. Effects by Electrix Filter… Read More Modular Jam Session
BigCityMusic is the culprit behind this frenetic hardcore synth porn jam video. It demos the Minomoog Voyager running into the Malekko Heavy Industry Assmaster. They call this octave-up fuzz “brutal”. Between the brutal Assmaster, the Fucking Fucker and the recent splooge of NSFW synth videos, though, we can pretty much kiss getting lunch-time traffic from… Read More This Assmaster Video May Get Us Banned From Your Office
MusicMik demonstrates what VCO sync looks like with an oscilloscope: I made this video during development of another VCO, my synchronization master is just a provisoric square oscillator, which produces a very unclean signal. Besides this i don’t have the audio equipment in the lab to create a better audio on this 🙂 But the… Read More Oscilloscope Geekfest: VCO Synchronization Made Visible
