It lives! It lives! “Noise performers extraordinaire”, The Loud Objects and Dr. Bleep have teamed up to create the first being of pure noise! The Bit Blob is a digital noise maker that’s controlled by connecting its contacts together, allowing you to bend your way through unlimited sonic madness. You can also connect LEDs, audio outputs,… Read More Bit Blob – The First Being Of Pure Noise!
Alvino Rey’s performance the St Louis Blues is dated and reflects the mainstream culture of the times, but highlights the long history of vocoder-like effects. … Read More Sixty Years Before Daft Punk, Alvino Rey & His Puppet Friend Talked Like Robots
GearLog reviews the FM3 Buddha Machine 2 ambient sound generator. If they put a USB connector on this and you could load up your own sounds, I’d be all over this. If you’ve got a Buddha Machine, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it.
As a part of the design event Urban Play 2, Droog Design and curator Scott Burnham asked NL Architects to bring in ideas for interactive urban interventions. One of NL’s contributions is the Boom Bench. The Boom Bench features eight 60-watt co-axial speakers and two subwoofers that can be accessed by users through Bluetooth. Sit down… Read More Park Bench Boombox
All right you Freaxxx. If you’ve been waiting to make a crappy electronic music video, but you don’t have any money, it’s time to get your video on. Brokencyde claims to have broken the code. They’ve figured out how to make crappy electronic music videos for $0.00! Yep – they went DIY and made their… Read More How To Make A Crappy Electronic Music Video For $0.00
NSFW: Circuit Ben demos his Super Ultra Mega Fun Box – a circuit bent orgasm key ring. Best line: “Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Don’t do it yet!” That’s what she said.
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We haven’t ruined your day with scary videos recently, so we thought we better remedy that with this creeptacular vintage video of Roddis Franklin “Pete” Drake doing his 1962 “talking steel guitar” hit, Forever. … Read More Freakishly Weird Talking Guitar Video
OT: It looks like the Eurythmic’s Dave Stewart has a new job in the sex toy industry – marketing high-end personal vibrators. Would I lie to you? Oh no no! Here’s the scoop:
Paul McCartney reportedly wants to release a 14-minute experimental electronic music track, recorded by the Beatles in 1967, called Carnival Of Light. It’s a track so strange that the Beatles never wanted you to hear it. Carnival Of Light, described as “a jumble of shrieks and psychedelic effects”, is rumored to be the most avant… Read More The Beatles’ Lost Electronic Music Track, Carnival Of Light
