It looks like analog video synthesis is starting to see the surge in experimentation that the Internet has brought to audio synthesis. This is a preview of a Sergio Martinez’s DIY FPGA-based video synthesizer. Martinez connected the FPGA to an old computer monitor, and then recorded the images with a cheap webcam. The coloured dots… Read More Abstract Analog Video Synthesis
This iPhone synthesizer video is making me lookforward to iPhone apps in iTunes. FYI – this is just the latest of many iPhone music software stories.
Not sure what to make of this – pask present has created a sort of steampunk electrochemical synthesizer: Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection, generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The… Read More Steampunk Electrochemical Synthesiser
Set designer and robot artist Roland Olbeter has created a series of electro-pneumatic sound machines capable of performing entire string quartets. The first commissioned composition for the robotic instruments was Elena Kats-Chernin‘s Fast Blue Air, which takes advantage of the range of noises created by the pneumatics. via WFMU
Robert Hodgin put together this stunning generative music video for Radiohead’s video contest, but realized that the result didn’t have that much to do with Radiohead. It’s very cool, just the same.
This demo, via Future Retro Synths, showcases the new XS Synthesizer, a semi-modular analog synth, being controlled by the FR Revolution.
Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso’s modular synthesizer is considered by many to be one of the largest and most complex in the world. This modular system, which Paradiso started building over 20 years ago, includes two hand-built modular systems, three Moog keyboard synths, and 3 Casio synths, all integrated and patchable together to make one big… Read More The Twisted Synth Of Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso
This demo, by retrosound, of the Roland VP330 Vocoder Plus, highlights the sound that Vangelis popularized in his soundtrack to Blade Runner and other works. Richard Clews of SOS said this about the VP330: If you ignore the hype and look at this instrument dispassionately, you’ll see it for what it really is — a… Read More ROLAND VP330 Vocoder Plus Demo
ixi audio is an experimental project concerned with the creation of free digital musical instruments and environments for generative music. ixiQuarks is a software environment designed for live improvisation that allows for user interaction on hardware, GUI and code level. The environment enables innumerable setups with flexible loading of tools and instruments. The ixiQuarks consist… Read More ixi audio – Free Experimental Electronic Music Software
Remember Eboman’s car crash music? Eboman specialises in the production of audiovisual sample compositions (which he calls Sample madnesS), the development of audiovisual sampling software and hardware and performances as a DVJ or with his SenSorSuit. This is a compilation of clips of an Eboman performance in Utrecht in April 2008: Guillermo uses the video… Read More Eboman Demos SenSorSuit Video Sampling
