Music

Neko Case gives MAKE some lovin’

Neko Case gives MAKE some lovin’

Indie rock/alt.country artist Neko Case gave MAKE a shout-out during a recent CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcast. She was on the show promoting her new record, Middle Cyclone. Host Tariq Hussain asks her about the unusual instrumentation used on the title track. Turns out, they used “programmable” music boxes, the little paper-tape music machines where […]

Monome meets Thingamakit

Monome meets Thingamakit

Vimeo user barnone created a hybrid Monome/Thingamakit – the Bleepnome. There’s a lot going on in the above setup! He clarifies a bit – Yeah the bleepnome has 2 photocell tenticles and 2 led tenticles. So it reacts to light on the monome to change either pitch or modulation. The multiscreen aspect of SevenUpLive lets […]

RFID network music player

RFID network music player

Make subscriber Nic used Arduino plus Parallax RFID reader/tags to make his Squeezebox network music player a bit more physically intuitive/interactive. I’m not the first to think of controlling music with RFID, somebody made a pretty neat player called PlayStand way back in 2002. But its RFID reader was plugged directly into the PC. I […]

“Kids” played on iPhone/iTouch

Phil Clandillon sends this music video of The Mentalists playing Kids, originally by MGMT. The Mentalists are an all female act based here in London. They’ve done this unusual cover of MGMT‘s “Kids” played entirely on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using apps from the application store. What kinds of great music can you play […]