Estonian Neanderthal Electronics Workshop

This video captures some of the activities at an Estonian circuit bending workshop: More than 40,000 years ago, our Neanderthal ancestors invented the first music instruments from simple objects around them (bones and stones, sticks and skins…), without reference to any existing music history, and primarily for their own pleasure rather than that of others.… Read More Estonian Neanderthal Electronics Workshop

Tonewheels Turn Graphics Into Sound

Check out this interesting electroacoustic performance by Derek Holzer! Tonewheels is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. This all-analog set is performed entirely… Read More Tonewheels Turn Graphics Into Sound