Monkey business – weekend synth fun
This is scary 
Can 8-bit beat the original song?
Check out for yourself:
Here’s the original song by Kansas
And here’s the 8-bit version, although instrumental version
The Disco King – Carry On Wayward Son
Must say it is a pretty good attempt at least
Concepts: the RainDrum
I just go have one of these :-), or nooooot
The Rain Drum is an invention in the concept stage by Dong Min Park. It’s an umbrella that features various drum sounds, promising to make your rainy day much more interesting.
When the rain hits an area on the umbrella, the stretched wax cloth creates a sound, just like it would on a regular drum.
In a regular drum pattern, the bass and snare sound less often than the hihats, and the toms somewhere in between. This problem is solved by having different-sized areas for each sound, increasing or decreasing the frequency of each sound being ‘played’.
By the way can you fold it?
3D music and Pd clones
1. 3D eye candy. Charles Cliffe has a psychedelic visualization of sound playback. The JavaScript nuts are also proceeding to do more things with their language than most would deem possible, even moving DSP calculations to JavaScript code.
2. Patching in a browser – with a Pd clone. Chris McCormick is porting a subset of basic Pd objects to the browser.
Millimetric remix
Smoking Kills (The Horrorist-Electrofied Mix) – Millimetric by thingstocome
Here’s a clip of a remix I just finished for Millimetric. I played it live in Stuttgart and it past the club test so it’s in his inbox. From a production standpoint your hearing Vermona DRM-1 drums through Izotope Trash, white noise crashes from a Yamaha CS5, the 90’s T99 or 80’s Vomito Negro sample is in an Ableton Simpler going through various Sugar Bytes Effectrix presets. My vocals are through a Shure KSM32 and Wavearts plug-ins.
Nice video with Kurokawa
Kurokawa composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. Kurokawa accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition. He also performed live-visual for musicians such as HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE(ex.YMO: Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto). In recent years, Kurokawa is invited to numerous noted international festivals and museums in Europe, US and Asia including TATE MODERN[UK], ARS ELECTRONICA[AT], transmediale[DE], Shanghai eARTS[CN], MUTEK[CA], and SONAR[ES] for concert and exhibition, and he continues to be an active presence on the international stage.
More info: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/”
Awesome heartbeat orchestra
Seldom I have heard something this cool, a must see
Experimental Electronic Music: The Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audiovisual performance where musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment with there heartbeats.
The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.
It’s an interesting approach to generative classical music – and actually yields some musically interesting results.
Check it out and let me know what you think!
How The Heartbeat Orchestra Works
The musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. A computer monitors and analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. The acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. It is a living score dependent on the state of the hearts.
While the musicians are playing, their heartbeats influence and change the composition and vice versa. The musicians and the electronic composition are linked via the hearts in a circular motion, a feedback structure. The emerging music evolves entirely during the performance.
The resulting music is the expression of this process and of “an organism forming itself from the circular interplay of the individual musicians and the machine”.
Moving water
The new episode of Sound Builders looks at Steve Mann, possibly the world’s pre-eminent hydraulophonist.
What’s that? Well, it’s someone who builds instruments that produce sound from moving water. His specialty is water organs and he even has one built into his hot tub.
Watch Steve here:
While at MIT, where he earned a PhD in Media Arts & Sciences, Steve founded the Wearable Computers Group at the Media Lab, and built musical instruments using brainwaves and compressed hydraulic fluids. Lauded by some as the world’s first cyborg, and the initiator of the mobile blogging movement, Steve is now a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
For this episode, Steve volunteered to be both guest and host, using his human/cyborg first-person perspective to show us his studio, talk about his past inventions, and ask members of the circus to play the latest of his inventions: the hydraulophone, a highly tactile and mellifluous water-based instrument that Steve hopes can offer the blind and deaf a new method of music-creation.
Typewriter synth, what’s next?
TOPLAPapp is a free application for the Apple iPad that uses a sonic puzzle as the interface for a virtual machine for sound synthesis.
Description:
This machine accepts a few valid instructions represented by the letters T, O, P, L, A, and p. You control TOPLAPapp by placing each command letter within a grid, along with setting some associated parameter sliders.
The machine rushes through the instruction set to create output sounds, which are usually of a somewhat noisy character, hopefully interestingly so.
The historical antecedents include instruction synthesis as pioneered at the Institute of Sonology in the 1970s, and the live coding movement, of modifying a running program as it acts.
Note: Developers warn “This app is intended for those interested in more experimental sound art: don’t download unless you are open to stranger computer music sounds”.
Pricing and Availability
TOPLAPP app is a free app and is available now for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Link:
NIKE electro shoes – Recommended
You will definitely love this
Here’s all that Nike have to say…
This is a secret live performance that was held in Tokyo.
Hifana is playing music with Nikes flexible running shoes, Nike Free Run+.
*The NIKE FREE RUN+ is absolutely a running shoe.
Shoes sold at retail will NOT make music when bent or twisted.
More information:
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