Sometimes it seems that there’s no end to the types of MIDI controllers that people come up with. Want proof? Here’s are some of the strangest MIDI controllers we’ve seen: Using Pennies As A Drum Controller That’s just of start of it. Read on for MIDI Hamsters, MIDI Drivers’ Licenses and more!
MIDI bagpipes combine two of the world’s most maligned instruments, the synthesizer and the bagpipes, into a state-of-the-art super-instrument. … Read More The Complete Guide To MIDI Bagpipes; Covering Practice Pipes, Robotic Bagpipers & The Frankenpipe
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
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
H-Pi Instruments is now shippping the TBX1 – a MIDI box designed to make custom keyboard tunings as easy as pushing a button. Attach this little box to a compatible synth and you can make every key play any pitch you want. It comes preloaded with 128 tunings for you to try out, and it… Read More World’s First Microtonal MIDI Keyboard Converter Shipping
Moby just published an interesting post at his blog, suggesting that none of today’s music compares to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: this won’t make sense to some of the people who are reading this, but i just finished listening to ‘rhapsody in blue’ from start to finish and i’m convinced it’s the best thing… Read More Moby: None Of Today’s Music Compares To Rhapsody in Blue
David Soldier‘s American Most Unwanted Song is a horribly good piece of work that brings together everything that Americans hate musically, and combines them into one long song, frequently to hysterical effect. By using market research with hundreds of people, Soldier determined that: The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between… Read More Are You One Of The 200? American Most Unwanted Song
Michael S. Schneider, author of A Beginner’s Guide To Constructing The Universe, has published an interesting analysis of the Amen Break (probably the most important sample ever). In his analysis, the Amen Break may be popular because of the way the Golden Ratio is found it the break’s timing: Having looked at the geometry of… Read More The Golden Ratio In The Amen Break
