A new web site promises to turn your genetic sequence into a musical sequence.Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of the University of California at Los Angeles describe the system in the open-access journal Genome Biology. They set up a system is to translate amino acids – the building blocks for human protein sequences – into… Read More Web Site Turns Your Genetic Sequence Into A Musical Sequence
According to Will Friedwald, he has the largest iTunes collection in the world, with more than a terabyte of music managed through iTunes. Friedwald is a music writer, and has been described as “The Poet Laureate of vintage pop music.” Friedwald spends much of his day in front of a Power Mac G5 using his… Read More Will Friedwald’s iTunes Collection Is Bigger Than Yours
An iPod flash mob party took over London’s Victoria Station Friday. An estimated 4,000 dancers turned up for the spontaneous event before four vanloads of police moved in to break up the gathering. The Victoria Station flash mob started at 6.53pm. 4,000 partiers did a 10-second countdown before the scheduled time and then erupted, dancing… Read More Mobile Clubbing Flash Mob Takes Over London Train Station
Scott Burgess of Bitnotic sent us word that they’ve released Laptop v1.0, an electronic pop song MP3 featuring the voices of VX-323, Bitnotic’s free MIDI-controlled speech synthesis software for Mac OS X. The track features the voice Junior “singing” about a laptop computer’s obsessive love for its owner. Burgess notes, “When you have a talented… Read More Bitnotic Drops “Laptop v1.0” – Free MP3 Single Featuring VX-323 Speech Synthesizer
miniMusic has released MixPad, a sequencer that plays and remixes MIDI files on any Palm handheld or phone. The new MixPad application from miniMusic plays standard MIDI files on any Palm Powered handheld or phone and can remix the songs as they play. Songs can be played on most modern devices using miniMusic’s Krikit Audio… Read More miniMusic Releases MixPad MIDI Player for Palm OS
The S-1 Premium Stage Controller is a freaky hand-made DJ control instrument by Vestax. The production run of the controller is limited to 20 pieces. The DJ controller combines ideas from turntables, guitars and other instruments to create a performance-oriented unit. Controller: Interface: Vestax 12 inch Platter control Cue : 4 cue play/rec Seamless Loop… Read More The Vestax S-1 Premium DJ Controller
Here’s an old video demonstration of classic Mellotron sampling technology: The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in England in the early 1960s. Mellotrons used a series of tape playback heads triggered by a standard organ-style keyboard to create a crude but pioneering sample playback device.
Noah Vawter, a.k.a. Shifty, created Ambient Addition, an ambient music generator that interacts with your environment. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes a built-in microphone’s sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener’s world. In the new context, some surprising behaviors take place. Listeners tend to play… Read More Gadget Turns Everything Into Ambient Music
Having trouble figuring out how to beat-match tracks to make mashups? Let Sue Teller show you how to do it! Don’t worry, it’s only mildly disturbing….
Here’s your chance, synth freaks, to own a small part of synth history – Klaus Schulze’s Korg PS 3300, above. Here’s the synth in Schulze’s studio, back in the day: Here’s the eBay info, via 550wooby:
