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From the Woods of Germany, Beyond, Sonic Creatures in Mouse on Mars-Recommended Netlabel [Free]

Jan

2013

According to legend, on Christmas Eve animals magically gain the ability to speak. If there’s a similar date for sound-making machines, it may have coincided with the work on the latest of two releases from a Mouse on Mars-curated netlabel Follow this link: From the Woods of Germany, Beyond, Sonic Creatures in Mouse on Mars-Recommended ...

2 Heads, Good Habits: New Collabs from False Image, A Guy Called Gerald and a Wunderkind [Listen]

Jan

2013

Poland-born Oscar Burnside has just turned 18, but his music is grown up – and there’s reason to watch out for his work with A Guy Called Gerald. Photo courtesy Laboratory Instinct Records Excerpt from: 2 Heads, Good Habits: New Collabs from False Image, A Guy Called Gerald and a Wunderkind [Listen]

Pinball Pianola: Pinball Game Meets a Piano in a Wild Constructed Instrument

Dec

2012

Pinball Pianola from Lucas Abela on Vimeo . The mechanical and kinetic collide – literally – with the sonic, in a devilishly-inventive hybrid instrument that cross-breeds a pinball table with a piano. See the original post: Pinball Pianola: Pinball Game Meets a Piano in a Wild Constructed Instrument

Hands-On Jam: MeeBlip SE with Koma Elektronik Delay, Filter [Gallery, Video]

Dec

2012

A wintry afternoon sometimes calls for putting the work on hold and spending some time jamming. So, this week (in approximate celebration of Sinterklaas), I headed around the corner to the offices of Koma Elektronik, the boutique all-analog gear producer. Here’s a few minutes of combining digital with analog, each with its own timbres and ...

Full-Body Music, Live: AV Kinect Performance, Complete with Beer Bottle [Video]

Nov

2012

ETHNO TEKH | live at Enig’matik Vibrations [Melb,Aus] 2012 from Ethno Tekh on Vimeo . View original post here: Full-Body Music, Live: AV Kinect Performance, Complete with Beer Bottle [Video]

Interview: Mark Wherry, Man Behind Hollywood’s Digital Musical Instruments, Hans Zimmer Collaborator

Oct

2012

Not available in stores: the custom touchscreen solution, running an original sampler, that turns Hans Zimmer’s musical ideas into reality. Mark Werry is the person who made it all possible. See original here: Interview: Mark Wherry, Man Behind Hollywood’s Digital Musical Instruments, Hans Zimmer Collaborator

Sharing Music’s Source Code: Event Pairs Performances with Code, Patches, Schematics

Oct

2012

Augmented cyborg performance by Onxy Ashanti, built with free tools and with freely-shared hardware, in the hopes of accelerating the rest of the musical human race. Photo courtesy the artist. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, high in the rafters, there’s a set of unusually-cheap seats called the Score Desk section Read more: Sharing ...

The Bee and The Stamen: Complete Live Stream, King Britt Interview, As Nature Meets Electronic Music

Oct

2012

King Britt, performing in the garden. Photo: Inna Spivakova The rest is here: The Bee and The Stamen: Complete Live Stream, King Britt Interview, As Nature Meets Electronic Music

Six 3D-Printed Musical Instruments, and What 3D Printing Could Do for Musicians

Oct

2012

3D printing can not only replicate existing forms – it can produce new ones. The Atom Guitar, from Odd Guitars Link: Six 3D-Printed Musical Instruments, and What 3D Printing Could Do for Musicians

Listening, Behind the Scenes: Phoebe Kiddo, Traveling Through Earth and Space

Oct

2012

Phoebe in the studio. Photos for CDM courtesy the artist. The enchanting, carefully-handcrafted music of Phoebe Kiddo is yet another example of the wonders coming from under-the-radar digital artists in the production Renaissance now underway. Read more: Listening, Behind the Scenes: Phoebe Kiddo, Traveling Through Earth and Space