New Instrument Uses Tattoos As A Score

Reader Dmitry Morozov – a Moscow-based media-artist, musician and ‘engineer of strange-sounding mechanisms’ – has created a new instrument that uses a tattoo for a score. Morozov creates experimental electronic music and advocates for circuit bending and DIY electronics in Russia, under the moniker ::vtol::. Here’s what Morozov has to say about his instrument, ‘Reading My Body’: this is… Read More New Instrument Uses Tattoos As A Score

Audio Damage Tattoo Drum Synth Now Available

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtgidAlkiA Audio Damage has announced that Tattoo, its new $79 percussion synth, is now available. What makes Tattoo unique? AD’s Adam Schabtach explains: All sounds are synthesized in real time–no samples are employed. Every parameter of every percussion voice has its own step sequencer. The sequencers have extensive randomization features so you can go completely… Read More Audio Damage Tattoo Drum Synth Now Available

Moog Tattoo In The Flesh

Remember Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo? Last time we saw it, it was looking a bit sore and nasty. Now it doesn’t look sore at all. The tat reproduces the circuit design of Bob Moog’s seminal Transistor Ladder Filter. Now that’s hardcore!

Tattoo Inspired By Moog Synthesizer

Image: ANDY_MOOG_BOY Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo was inspired by Bob Moog’s famous synth filter design. Note that one of the transistors in Bob Moog’s Transistor Ladder Filter has been filled with the circular Moog Music Inc logo!