Using A Monome To Control Audio & Video At The Same Time

Jan van Nuenen‘s Flowers is an interesting experimental electronic music video that explores the idea of using the Monome to control audio and video generation at the same time.  Here’s how it works: The home made Monome is connected to a max/msp patch called boiingg (great app for the monome). Max sends midi to Ableton… Read More Using A Monome To Control Audio & Video At The Same Time

The Kawai K5000

This is a demo, by RetroSound, of the Kawai K5000 Advanced Additive Synthesizer. The Kawai K5000 = Additive Synthesis + special PCM samples; the demo shows some typical K5000 sounds. Kawai K5000R Specs: Polyphony: 32 voices Oscillators: Digital Additive Synthesis plus PCM samples; Harmonics: 64 per source; Effects: 4 effects algorithms with 32 different effects… Read More The Kawai K5000

Musical Applications for Multi-Touch Interfaces

This short demo video explores the various ways the BricK Table tangible and multi-touch interface can be used for creating and composing music. Brick Table was created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis. An open-ended interface, Brick Table has been used in both the installation settings as well as live performance.

The Beat Bike, A Bizarre Bike-Mounted Drum Machine

Hardware hacker Michael Una explains his Beat Bike – an interactive bike-mounted drum machine. Sensors mounted on a bicycle frame are activated by spinning the bicycle’s front wheel. Once activated, they trigger a single drum sound- kick drum, snare, tom-tom, and “disco-bleep” from a kids’ toy drum machine. As the wheel spins, the sensors are… Read More The Beat Bike, A Bizarre Bike-Mounted Drum Machine