Synthinetic – The Kinetic Synthesizer
Synthinetic is a kinetically powered synthesizer that produces crazy sounds of destruction and beauty. It’s a project that explores using energy creatively to produce and manipulate sound. Video demo here.
Category: Strange
What Is Santa Playing?
Ahhh. Times were simpler in the 70’s, when you could snap a picture of Santa next to his Moog and expect to sell some cheesy electronic music records. If you know anything about this photo or the record it must have accompanied, let me know in the comments. Image via dreamchimney
SynthMonster Like Circuit Bent Tribbles
This video shows several different users trying out the first iteration of the SynthMonster, which is sort of a circuit bent Tribble.
The Coolest Teacher Ever
Paul Rubenstein (aka Ubertar) is a composer, musician, musical instrument inventor and recording engineer. He may also be the coolest teacher ever. He teaches a class called Building Music at Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools in Brooklyn. Students learn to build their own electric guitars, from winding their own electric pickups to designing… Read More The Coolest Teacher Ever
What Not To Do With Your Synthesizer
Image: marinavann Jacob does some strange things with his synths…. Is that what you’re supposed to do with a Synthesizers.com modular synthesizer?
Sync Nanoloop To Ableton Live
Littlescale demos syncing Nanoloop, a real-time Gameboy sequencer/synth, to Ableton Live: Part 1 Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronised to the drums playing in Ableton (track 1). This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.… Read More Sync Nanoloop To Ableton Live
Minneapolis Gets Bent
GetLoFi has a roundup of videos and images from the Minneapolis Bent Fest 2008. Part 1 Part 2 Above, Italy’s EraSer demonstrates his approach to layering glitch and bent sounds over a repeating background.
Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.
Mac Developer Needed For Binaural Beat Brain Synth Port
Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principle of binaural beats as described in the October 1973 Scientific American article Auditory Beats in the Brain (Gerald Oster). It can be used to synthesize sounds that affect the brain. Here’s a demo. It should be listened to using headphones: [display_podcast] The central theme of… Read More Mac Developer Needed For Binaural Beat Brain Synth Port
Synth DIY Project – The !Malfunctionator
The !Malfunctionator is a DIY synth project, designed to be “a handy UFO dector doubling up as a Electro Music Device.” It consists of 3 oscillators, each modulated by 3 low frequency oscillators. The oscillators are based around the hex invertor IC known as CD40106 aka 7HC04; the wave froms produced from this logic device… Read More Synth DIY Project – The !Malfunctionator
