What Is The Syntheshredder? Designer Jesse Chorng thought it would be cool to combine skateboarding and sound synthesis. So he’s building The Syntheshredder. It’s a 20ft diameter skate bowl that will house sensors embedded under the surface. These will then be routed to a series of hardware instruments as well as custom software that will… Read More What Is The Syntheshredder?
NES controller to CV interface was uploaded by: crudface
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People Who Do Noise was uploaded by: SchizophrenicArguing
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Looks like Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method have some new gear! Part bass, part dj controller, part keyboard – and all WTF! What is this thing and why is it so awesome?
Haunted by the curse of Herbie Hancock– the unfortunate law of the universe that guys always look stupid playing the keytar? (While there are plenty of memorable keytar goddesses, Herbie Hancock is the only guy, ever, to look cool playing the keytar.) From the looks of it, the Ambidextro Keytar will do nothing to help with this problem… Read More The Ambidextro Keytar – Twice As Cool As Regular Keytars?
POCOPOCO Performance at Siggraph 2011, Vancouver was uploaded by: IDEEALab
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Image: caseydesmond Saturday Synth Porn: Casey Desmond & The Tronichord, a promotional photo for the caseydesmond.com launch. Desmond’s instrument is a 1979 Suzuki Tronichord. See Desmond’s Born This Way video for a view into her awesomely sparkly synth studio. via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
From the ‘Kustom Stuff’ category comes this ‘interactive thingy’ of Greg Francke. We’ve really got no idea what this does, but it requires chin strap, which we figure is a sign that it’s a pretty serious piece of sonic headgear gear. Think you know what this thing does? Then Caption This!
Like a synth with lots of knobs? Here’s something different – a demonstration of flame-controlled synthesis. Nyle Steiner demonstrates how to control a low-pass filter using a blowtorch: This lowpass filter is just like a normal synthesizer lowpass VCF but the cutoff frequency is controlled by the variable resistance of copper oxide when heated by… Read More How To Control Your Synthesizer With A Blowtorch
We’ve been skeptical about the value of the Microsoft Kinect as a music platform, because of latency and resolution limitations. Here’s a Kinect music experiment, though, that takes advantage of the Kinect’s strengths, Tension – an interactive spacial sound system. Here’s the project summary: A brief video showing Tension. An interactive spatial sound installation for… Read More Kinect Controlled Synthesis
