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The history of electronic music from 1800 to 2015

The history of electronic music from 1800 to 2015
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These 6 Electronic Instruments Go from Retro to Bananas There are all kinds of DIY instruments available for you to experiment with, but electronic instruments have to be some of the craziest. From the Theremin, using radio waves to control pitch and volume, to an instrument controlled, literally, by bananas, the options for “electro-musical” creativity are nearly endless! Circuit Bending Circuit bending could refer to any number of instruments, but it’s the art of hacking an existing electronic instrument or toy into something that sounds, well, different. The Theremin The Theremin is an instrument patented in 1928 that amazingly requires no physical contact from the user. The Trautonium Apparently the late 1920s was a really great time to make strange instruments. [via Hackaday] Banana Piano Thanks to the Makey Makey board, which acts like a USB keyboard, you can use anything that’s just a little bit conductive as an interface device. Headphone Amplifier Waveform Display DIY Sequencer and Looper Jeremy Cook

Sound Super Stretch by Nasca Octavian PAUL Introduction This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. Please note that this is suitable only for extreme time stretching (e.g. if have a melody of 3 minutes and you want to listen it in 3 hours). Features It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. Sound examples Download You can download the source code for Linux or binary for Windows from here. Screenshots Usage Before starting, you need to open a WAV, OGG VORBIS or MP3 file. The main window has two main controls: the stretch amount and the audio window. The stretch amount There are three modes: The "Stretch" mode - may stretch up to 10,000 times The "HyperStretch" mode - may stretch up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times (10^18) The "Shorten" mode - it reduces the length of the sound You can precisely set the amount by pressing the "S" button. The audio window History

Quaver - Analog Looping Piano Create Digital Music » Music Made with Bees, Free Sample Set, and Why You Should Care I’m late in posting this, but it’s too good to pass up – our friend Troels Folmann sends us his latest sound design experiment, this time with bees. Better audio:Bees by Tonehammer Specs: 200-230 wing flaps per second (hence the tone)Top speed: 15 mph.Compound eyes with thousands of tiny lenses plus simple eyes.A life form with 20,000 known species, on which human life dependsAvailability: with our protection, a long, long time. Without, we’re toast. There’s also a free bee sample set for use with Kontakt or (via WAV) any other tool. We’d love to hear music you make with those samples. Lots of additional info:Music Made with Bees [tonehammer] Bee populations are in decline, which is a deep concern. The New York Times has a good recent article on bees, why they’re so important to human life and agriculture, the disturbing rapid decline in their population, and a breakthrough that’s occurred in the last week. You can support bee research here:

Make your very own Tiny Ukulele This tutorial teaches you how to make the world’s smallest (and probably only) capacitance-piezo-buzzer ukulele. A ukulele is an instrument from Hawaii that looks like a small guitar with four nylon strings. Our strings will be made of wire and work by measuring the capacitance and then play the corresponding tone on a piezo buzzer. Step 1: Get the parts To make a ukulele you will need: A LightBlue BeanFour 1M ohm resistorsOne 1k ohm resistorA piezo buzzerSolid wireSome 1/4” plywoodTwo tiny screwsWood glueHeat shrink tubingPaint (optional) Tools: Laser cutterSoldering ironPliersWire stripperA small brush Step 2: Solder the piezo buzzer Solder the piezo buzzer’s legs on the columns below pin 1 and 2. Illustration made using Fritzing Step 3: Solder the string resistors To measure the capacitance, we need to use resistors. Take the four 1M ohm resistors and put them through pin 0-3 on the back of the Bean. Flip the Bean so that you have the front forward. Step 4: Connect the strings Step 10: Code

Highland Cathedral Highland Cathedral is a popular melody for the Great Highland Bagpipe. This melody was composed by German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb[1] in 1982 for a Highland games held in Germany.[2] It has been proposed as the Scottish national anthem to replace unofficial anthems Scotland the Brave and/or Flower of Scotland.[3] It has subsequently undergone various orchestrations and had lyrics added in English and in Scottish Gaelic. The tune has been performed by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and featured in the album, Spirit of the Glen, which won a Classical Brit award in 2009.[4] The song has been performed at numerous Scottish cultural events, including Scotland's Rugby Union games.[1] The tune was the Royal Hong Kong Police Anthem under British rule which ended in 1997. Lyrics[edit]

What is Filk? Singout article Filk Music by Jordin Kare No, that's not a typographical error (although the word started as one, long ago). Filksongs and filksinging are the folk music of a time and a community, just as, say, Celtic ballads, or new England sea chanteys are — except the time is today (or tomorrow) and the community is science fiction and fantasy fandom. Filksinging got it's start in the 1950's, when fans of SF (never say sci-fi) and fantasy began holding weekend get-togethers — conventions, or "cons" at rented hotels. Sometimes a few musically inclined fans would gather late at night in a corner of the lobby and trade folk songs, often making up mutant lyrics about space travel or elves or convention-going or what have you. To quote Nick Smith of the Los Angeles Filkharmonics, "It is a mixture of song parodies and original music, humorous and serious, about subjects like science fiction, fantasy, computers, cats, politics, the space program, books, movies, TV shows, love, war, death..."

Build a laser show that moves to your favourite music The first thing we want to do is provide power to the laser itself, and provide any easy method to turn it on and off. The power is coming from the AC/DC adapter, but it ends in one of those plugs we're all so familiar with. What we need to do is wire a receptacle (which connects to our power adapter plug), to a switch (which allows us to turn power on and off), which then goes to the laser driver board itself. Don't connect anything to the laser yet! Why? We need to mount the switch and the receptacle in the box, and you'll quickly find that you need to pass the wires through the little hole in order to mount the switch. Now we can solder those leads to the laser, and fix the laser driver board to a part of the box. Make sure the laser is pointing away from you at something non-reflective and cheap (a piece of wood is great), plug the AC/DC adapter in, and turn the switch on.

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