Tom Phillipson, an Australian electronic musician, sent us a link to this YouTube video of his portable performance rig, housed in a Pelican case. The setup consists of a modified Pelican case that enables the rack mounting of equipment. This means I can be setup and ready to play in under 4 minutes. Hardware includes […]
Dutch artist and music hacker Gijs Gieskes has struck again, this time hooking up a cassette machine (with audio on one channel, a rim-shot on the other, used as a trigger ) to an Ardunio and the Arduino to a Gakken SX-150, to create a sequencer for it. WalkSX More: How To – control a […]
Here’ a lovely stand (pad) for the PICnome OSC (open source controller). The maker (in Japan), of both the PICnome controller and the pad, is selling a limited number of kits. tkrworks
Make some crazy musical noise with this 555 Timer-based Noisemusick Kit. Watch the video to see it in action and pick up your own at the Maker Shed. In the Maker Shed: In the Maker Shed: 555 Noisemusick Kit To download The Noismusick Kit MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
This fantastic music video from Reyna Perez entitled “Love Love Love” was shot entirely on an iPhone 3GS.
We hope you’re having a fabulous Independence Day weekend. To help serenade your hangover from too much fun yesterday, here’s a guy playing the “Star Spangled Banner” on a baseball bat violin. Tres Americana! National Anthem [Thanks, Shawn!]
Scottish sound designer, the Amazing Rolo, traveled to Maker Faire this year especially to see what sorts of cool musical technologies people were cooking up. He made a series of videos of makers demoing their wares. Of the three videos above, he writes: First up is Elly Jessop, a Masters Student at the uber-cool MIT […]
