Month: August 2008

Matrioshke doll theremin

Matrioshke doll theremin

Matryomin is the unique, original erectronic musical instrument invented by Masami Takeuchi in 1999. It is a type of theremin – oldest electro-musical instrument invented in Russia – shaped Russian traditional wooden doll, Matrioshka. It hold form of Matrioshka perfectly, moreover, performing five octaves range. The distance of 1 octave at Low-Middle range is equal […]

Korg Kaossilator 4-bar loop hack

I apologize if this is a bit of a niche hack, but I’ve had my eye on Korg’s little pocket synthesizer and then David Battino showed off some impressive audio samples on the digital media blog that he was able to create with a hidden Kaossilator feature: What loosened my credit card was a secret […]

Austin Event: Earthen Plasters

Austin Event: Earthen Plasters

Design~Build~Live is one of a healthy number of groups in Austin doing their part to fill us all in on the ‘no-brainers’ of sustainability: measures where you don’t make a sacrifice to green your life but rather end up with a ‘better than polluting’ outcome. To steal a Worldchanging catchphrase, they’re trying to create a […]

GarageRemote lets you get MIDI easily into GarageBand

GarageRemote lets you get MIDI easily into GarageBand

Another cool piece of software from Murat Konar (who brought us the MacBS2), the “GarageRemote” is a free Mac OSX preference pane that allows the control of GarageBand’s transport functions from any MIDI Controller with programmable buttons. So if you’ve built a MIDI device, you can easily get GarageBand to listen to incoming noteon/noteoff messages […]