50th Anniversary of the Moog Modular Synthesizer. Bass Bump Headphone Amp. The Bass Bump Headphone Amp is an audio accessory you can build to improve all of your private music listening. It has enough power to give clear sound and punchy dynamics through most any pair of headphones, or even a set of small speakers. The custom bass enhancement circuit lets you boost the music’s critical low-frequency spectrum to your taste. It sounds better than the headphone driver circuits in most smartphones and MP3 players because it has a lower source impedance and much higher drive current. Completely DIY Monome. 555 Pocket Synth/Keyboard. From DeArmond to Photoresistors, the Optical Tremolo Box Looks and Sounds Great! The Optical Tremolo Box was inspired by Charles Platt’s “Stomp Box Basics” article (MAKE Volume 15, page 82), which theorized using a light sensor to read patterns on a rotating disk to create a tremolo effect.
In amplifiers and effects pedals, tremolo is basically rapid fluctuations of volume to create a warbling, or “shudder” effect. Taking the project from theory to reality, MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan used a cadmium sulfide photoresistor to provide us with our light sensor — a component we have used in previous Weekend Projects. Combined with “sweep disks” that vary the light passing through to the photoresistor, you can create custom tremolo effects! Chat LIVE with Makers. Phonotube, making music with light. Arcangel Constantini, Phonotube In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Photophone.
While his earlier invention, the telephone, uses electricity to transmit voice communications, the photophone relied on a beam of light to send sound. Asheville electro-music festival. Aleksi Perälä. Live performance tools. Constructing the Battery Signal Generator. This is the conclusion to my last article, “Make a 9V Battery-Powered Function Generator.”
The schematic and the circuit description were presented in that article. In this article, I present some construction tips and drawings to help you actually build and use the circuit. PC Boards. RCA graduate Dagny Rewera uses soap and light to visualise sound. Light projected through a soap bubble throws patterns generated by the tiny vibrations of a speaker onto the ceiling in this installation by Royal College of Art graduate Dagny Rewera (+ movie).
RCA graduate Dagny Rewera uses soap and light to visualise sound. Projects:prosthetic_instruments [Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL)] These instruments are the culmination of a three-year long project in which the designers worked closely with dancers, musicians, composers and a choreographer.
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The goal of the project was to develop instruments that are visually striking, utilize advanced sensing technologies, and are rugged enough for extensive use in performance. The complex, transparent shapes are lit from within, and include articulated spines, curved visors and ribcages. Unlike most computer music control interfaces, they function both as hand-held, manipulable controllers and as wearable, movement-tracking extensions to the body. Projects:prosthetic_instruments [Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL)] These gloves will "change the way we make music", says Imogen Heap. Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this exclusive video interview, musician Imogen Heap demonstrates the electronic gloves that allow people to interact with their computer remotely via hand gestures.
The interview was filmed at Heap's home studio outside London, shortly before she launched her Kickstarter campaign to produce a limited production run of the open-source Mi.Mu gloves. "These beautiful gloves help me gesturally interact with my computer," says Heap, explaining how the wearable technology allows her to perform without having to interact with keyboards or control panels. Instrumented Bodies by Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick. Researchers in Canada have designed a family of prosthetic musical instruments, including an external spine and a touch-sensitive rib cage, that create music in response to body gestures (+ interview + slideshow).
Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick , two PhD researchers at McGill University's Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab (IDMIL) , worked with a team of dancers, musicians, composers and choreographers to develop wearable digital instruments for a live music and dance performance, called Les Gestes . Projects:prosthetic_instruments [Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL)] Module #2. Tom Verbruggen's Module # 2 is the second version of his handmade, wooden four-step sequencer.
The sequencer is powered by a steam engine and able to wirelessly transmit four MIDI signals to a laptop. The first version, Module # 1, was presented standing on a white pedestal in the middle of an exhibition space. Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world. Several years ago, for the 20th anniversary of acid house and Britain's "second summer of love", I interviewed some of the main players of those early days for the Observer Music Monthly magazine.
It was a brief oral history, weaving together snippets from the main DJs, promoters and original ravers. "No one's really told the story of acid house like this," Haçienda DJ Mike Pickering told me. Roland AIRA Performance: TR-8, VT-3, TB-3, System-1. ELEKTRO MOSKVA TRAILER - ENGLISH VERSION. Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally. TD Bank Online Banking. TD Bank Online Banking. Fondly revisiting the look and feel of the mixtape. There's a box in our spare room, full of cassettes.
Actually there are two boxes full of cassettes. And maybe more to the point, both are buried beneath a variety of unrelated objects that have piled up over the years, because of course I never listen to cassettes anymore. But the other night I dug through the junk and into the boxes in search of old mixtapes. We'd been having one of those conversations people my age have about mixtape culture — all the effort and care and hassle it took to make one, etc. — and I started remembering specific tapes I'd received.
Video: Solvent, 'Burn The Tables' : All Songs Considered. All Songs TV Credit: Courtesy of the artist.
First Listen: Cibo Matto, 'Hotel Valentine' Hide captionCibo Matto's new album, Hotel Valentine, comes out Feb. 14.
Sean Lennon/Courtesy of the artist Cibo Matto's new album, Hotel Valentine, comes out Feb. 14. Korg MS-20 Kit Lets You Build A Full-Size Analog Monophonic Synth Classic. Elektron Reveals New Analog Rytm Drum Machine. Filed under: Gear 01/21/2014 Words: Glenn Jackson.
Moog Announces Sub 37 Mono/Duo-Paraphonic Synthesizer. Another noteworthy NAMM release comes to us from Moog – The Sub 37 synth. 50 Incredibly Tough Albums for Extreme Listeners. Music Production. Korg MS-20 Kit Lets You Build A Full-Size Analog Monophonic Synth Classic. The 10 strangest musical instruments. Modular. Music Theory. Dirty Electronics. VST plugins. EDM WILL EAT ITSELF: BIG ROOM STARS ARE GETTING BORED.
It’s easy to forget that sometimes, while silhouetted against a domineering sponsor’s logo and surrounded by hi-tech FX, big room DJs actually think about what kind of music they’re playing and how it affects the surging, creative, strobe-tinged culture we know as dance music. This year the stars of big room EDM even started opening up about their apparent disillusionment. 3D Printed Loudspeaker Part 1 - Cornell Research. Happy New Year! Weird versions of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ performed on theremins! Space Music: Symphonies of the Planets. Study shows removing DRM increased music sales. Intellectual Property Strategy and the Long Tail: Evidence from the Recorded Music Industry [PDF], a new working paper from University of Toronto Strategic Management PhD candidate Laurina Zhang documents the rise in sales experienced by the music industry following the abandonment of DRM in digital music offerings.
The paper compares sales of 5,864 albums from 634 artists from before and after the music industry eliminated DRM, and finds an average rise of 10 percent in overall sales (though back-catalog experienced more of a lift compared to front-list titles).
iTrack Dock. The Writhing Society. The 10 best Detroit techno documentaries ever. There’s no city in the history of dance music that’s been mythologized quite like Detroit. Music Foundations Tutorial: Scales, Scales, Scales…Why learn Scales? Despacio: The 50,000-watt sound system designed for discerning audiophiles. Cult of Personalities - 10 Things You Need to Know About James T. Cotton. Instagram. Instagram. THE NEW MASCHINE FAMILY. Music is an inaccessible industry for tech startups. The Oscillation. Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music. Interview: Blixa Bargeld.
The Endlessly Modded MonoBox Powered Speaker.