Moog Music has announced a new circuit bending contest: Moog Music was born when a young Bob Moog, who considered himself a geeky, socially awkward kid with a passion for electronics and music started tinkering with electronic circuitry. As a boy, Moog built small radios, amps and three note organs in his basement workshop with… Read More Moog Announces First Circuit Bending Challenge
Moog Music has announced a Halloween theremin video contest: The call of the Theremin has been haunting the science fiction and horror movie genres for decades. It was there when aliens came to earth in The Day The Earth Stood Still and when monsters came to life in The Bride of Frankenstein. Now it’s your… Read More Moog Announces Halloween Theremin Video Contest
Ableton has announced the Ableton Summer Music Challenge – a contest for young people (18 and under) that offers prizes from Ableton, Novation, Loopmasters and SoundCloud. Eligible participants can submit a track via their own SoundCloud accounts to one of the following two age-specific contest groups: 15 to 18 years of age Younger than 15… Read More 18 Or Under? Take The Ableton Live Summer Music Challenge
BOSS has announced the Loop Station World Championship – a looping contest, open to BOSS loopers. Here are the details:
John Keston has announced a Gestural Music Sequencer Generative Music Contest for users of his GMS music sequencer. GMS is a Gestural Music Sequencer developed in Processing. The application samples video and displays it either normally or inverted so it looks as though you’re looking into a mirror. Each frame is analyzed for brightness, then… Read More Gestural Music Sequencer Generative Music Contest
The Beat Kangz have announced the Kang Of All Battles – a contest to see who can make the best music using the Beat Thang workstation or the Beat Thang Virtual: The Beat Kangz are looking for a hot new SUPER PRODUCER who can bang that Thang, and the next SUPERSTAR ARTIST who can bring… Read More Beat Kangz Announce The Kang Of All Battles, With $30,000 Grand Prize
Boing Boing’s Offworld has put out a call to chiptunes composers, asking for help to score a couple of old films about Atari Computer Camp: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed… Read More Boing Boing Looking For 8-Bit Composers
We’ll admit it – this video of the V-Accordion Festival sort of freaked us out with its frightening majesty. The technology behind Roland’s V-Accordion line, though, is pretty interesting – combining everything you know and love about accordions (Italian restaurants) with a slice of MIDI-controlled synth action. It does orchestral sounds, physical behavior modeling and… Read More Play The Accordion, Win A Trip To Italy To Jam With The V-Accordion Babes
Livid has announced that they will be giving away a limited edition of their Ohm DJ/VJ controller: In celebration of the great response we have had this past year for the Ohm controller with hundreds of users now in over 35 countries, we are giving away an Special Edition Ohm package. This one-of-a-kind Ohm is… Read More Win A Livid Ohm DJ/VJ Controller
Puremagnetik has launched a sound design contest. The goal is to create a collection of drum racks and clips in Ableton Live using a sound set they provide: Puremagnetik has created a custom sound set for you to download, warp, morph, mangle and destroy! 1) Login and Download the Selector Library Here. 2) The Selector… Read More Sound Design Contest
