Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson chats about chiptunes with a number of artists who performed at the most recent installment of the 8-bit music event Blipfest: Paza Rahm (pazarahm.com, from Sweden), Rugar (rugarandi.com, Sweden), Sabrepulse (myspace.com/sabrepulse, Scotland) and Akira, aka 8GB (myspace.com/8gb, Argentina).
Electronica artist BT and his daughter Kaia have found themselves in an custody battle turned ugly. Several weeks ago, BT asked for help finding his daughter. He put out this statement: BT’s daugther Kaia Nui Transeau (3,5 years old), has been abducted by her mother Ashley Duff and taken across state lines from Maryland to… Read More BT Kidnapping & Custody Battle Update
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Eric Barbour of Metasonix introduced the G-1000 Fucking Fucker (not the sucking fucker), a high-end tube amp that brings Barbour’s interest in using using vacuum tubes in original ways to amps. We caught up with Eric at the show and this was what he had to say about the… Read More Eric Barbour Intros The Fucking Fucker Amplifier
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Andrew Haarsage makes things – things that are insane. Things like the Bloog modular blog synthesizer: It’s a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. It pulls text using any any RSS feed. The knobs and sliders scroll through the text and… Read More Insane Analog Synth Writes Random Blog Posts
Inspired by Roland SH1000, Revox B77, and Linn 9000 drum machine. Beem may have more time on his hands than me, but I’m liking his awesome Lego synths. Juno 2 style alpha dial synth with patch cords, and a Mac SE. The images are used as cover art for the free CD download, The Future.
We thought that the theremin dildo phone was weird, but this dismembered baby doll head theremin may have it beat. The Theremin includes: 8 ohm Speaker(very small, low volume) Red On/Off Switch ( RED LED LITE operated EYES by the on and off switch) Silver Pitch Volume Knob Large Photo-Cell (NEW and IMPROVED, WIDER RANGE… Read More Bizarre Dismembered Baby Head Theremins
“gheez, why did I post this?” asks matrix12x. “I could hardly hear anything while recording and I look like a Christmas demon of some sort… like an evil santa or something.” Very unique.
Earlier today we had images of a Roland 808 on an iPhone and asked if it was legit. The consensus in the comments was that the iPhone 808 was bogus. iPhone Synth, though is real and available for download. Here’s a video of it in action: The synth uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to change the… Read More A Real iPhone Synthesizer
Dreamtargets has posted an iPhone 808 image at Flickr. Real? Fake? Photoshop? Just a picture on his iPhone? Let me know what you think! Full size image here.
