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Kelly & Noah Play the Electric Eel Polka, While Ryan Spins The Leek

Sunday Synth Jam: Electronic musicians sometimes take themselves a little to serious. This is not the case with Noah Vawter and Kelly Snook, who, here, breath life into a classic Finnish folk song, while Ryan O’Toole does a leek spin. The duo play a diy instrument called the “electric eel“, which “synthesizes a variety of important electronic… Read More Kelly & Noah Play the Electric Eel Polka, While Ryan Spins The Leek

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Mouth-Controlled Synthesizer, The Speaktron, Crowned Best Hack Of The Day

Interaction designer Marek Bereza created the Speakatron – a bizarre mouth-controlled synthesizer – for Music Hack Day London, held Sept 4-5th (hey – that’s two music hack days!). Speakatron uses your webcam to identify when your mouth is open and plays a sound if it is. It uses the shape of your mouth and its… Read More Mouth-Controlled Synthesizer, The Speaktron, Crowned Best Hack Of The Day

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Dave Spiers Talks About The MTron Optiron Optigan Expansion Pack, His Weird Tech Fetishes

This video, from the Winter NAMM Show, features GForce Software’s Dave Spiers introducing the MTron Optitron expansion pack, which is based on a sampled Optigan. We missed this when it came out – but Spiers may get the prize for “most entertaining NAMM demo guy,” and the Optitron Expansion Pack sound exceptionally groovy, too. Check… Read More Dave Spiers Talks About The MTron Optiron Optigan Expansion Pack, His Weird Tech Fetishes

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