A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces

Martin Kaltenbrunner has published a very nice overview of tangible musical interfaces, focusing on table-top controllers, such as music tables and audio building blocks. Projects featured include: Audiopad – a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. Audio d-touch… Read More A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces

La Jetee, With Improvised Electronic Music Soundtrack

http://vimeo.com/3038037 Chris Marker’s La Jetee, with improvised electronic soundtrack performed by Central Saint Martins Fine Art students on the 28th January 2009. Instruments included Theremin, Tone Generator, Reel to Reel tape loops, percussion synth, Space Echo, Korg DS10, Buddah Machine 2 and rattler. The performance was part of the Under the Radar lecture and workshop… Read More La Jetee, With Improvised Electronic Music Soundtrack

Bizarro Mexican Penguin Guitar Synthesizer

PInhead‘s Insanity Generator, a bizarro Mexican penguin guitar synthesizer, is a tasty abomination: Here’s a birthday present for my long-time-bro Jonathan Barkin (his birthday was in November). It’s a touch-sensitive synth built into a little guitar I bought for 100 pesos in Tijuana. It’s triggered by tapping on the piezo element sealed underneath the penguin,… Read More Bizarro Mexican Penguin Guitar Synthesizer