This could be just about the best scientific discovery ever: dance music could save your life. Scientists have found that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music not only increases the levels of antibodies in your body, but it decreases your levels of stress hormones, which can weaken the immune system. Volunteers who… Read More It’s Science: Last Night A DJ Saved Your Life
HackaDay has a nice tutorial that looks at hacking the Thingamakit anthropomorphic synthesizer. Hacks include adding a waveshaper knob, a sine wave switch and an audio input. If you’re thinking about getting a Thingamakit – this is a must read before you dive in. Kits are $55, or $65 with the enclosure.
If you ever wanted to roll like Snoop Dogg and make Johnny Cash roll over in his grave, here’s your chance! ACIDplanet.com has announced a new remix contest, featuring Johnny Cash’s debut single Cry, Cry, Cry, later included on Cash’s debut album, His Hot and Blue Guitar. The winner of the contest will have his… Read More Remix Johnny Cash & Just See If He Comes After You!
We’ve mentioned binaural beats previously – illusory “beats” that you can hear when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. It’s an interesting psychoacoustic effect – one that at least some people think can help you do things ranging from concentrating to opening your chakras. Mainstream media has… Read More Binaural Beats Lead To Digital Drugs Madness
At oobject, you can vote for the worst keytar video ever, and see some fun keytar videos in the process: This list is a warning reminder of what people really look like when they play Rock Band. It features keytars from their earnest debut to parody, to some kind of post-post-modern resolution with self aware… Read More Vote For The Worst Keytar Video In The World
We recently saw a post on the Weirdest Guitars In The World – and, after taking a look, all I can say is that guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch. You haven’t seen weird, until you’ve seen some of the bizarre synth contraptions that keyboardists and electronic musicians have come up with. In fact, some of… Read More The Strangest Synthesizers In The World
jetdaisuke does his thing with the SX 150 Gakken Analog Synthesizer, which is a simple battery-powered synth toy that is packaged with the August issue of Otona No Kagaku (Japanese for Adult Of Science).
I was browsing around at WFMU‘s blog, and I came across the video for V-I-S-I-T-O-R-S, by the group Visitors. The song and video are from 1981, but even for the 80’s, Visitors managed to find new and original ways to suck. I could enumerate the ways this video sucks, but suffice it to say, this… Read More Is This The Worst Electronic Music Video Ever?
Ranjit Bhatnagar made this video showing the results of his junk guitar workshop at Etsy labs. It makes me want to make a 2′ x 4′ guitar, too…..
Each Darth vader mask is equipped with a microprocessor connected to a central computer to give an artificial intelligence system developed to work out the darkest musical hit of all time. Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni Last Manoeuvres in the Dark at the Palais de Tokyo Paris. via Make
