Monome tweet reader
Man, what don’t monomes do? Robert Böhnke puts the popular open source controller to work as a Twitter display. Related:Monome’s 64 (video) fingers
Music
Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
Street View’s embedded videos
Phil Clandillon has a cool new video project featuring Google Earth mashups with panoramic images of specific locations relating to the background of the music on The Editors’ new album.
To promote UK band Editors’ new album, In This Light And On This Evening, we’ve created a hacked version of Google Street View which allows users to preview the album in the areas of London which inspired it.
Users can travel to areas of the city where we’ve hacked in our own custom locations. The new additions consist of our own custom panoramic images, shot at night by photographer James Royall. Within each location the user will hear music from the album, which was inspired by the mood and magic of London at night. Each of the nine tracks on the album has its own location.
Review of the Gakken SX-150
We do know where you can get the Gakken SX-150, then Maker Shed or course!
Handmade Music Brooklyn tonight: felted signal processing, electro-rock, & more
We’ll be enjoying another helping of handmade & homebrew sounds this eve @ Brooklyn’s 3rd Ward. Handmade Music ringmaster Peter Kirn of CDM gives a preview – From Sarah and Lara Grant, we have a dress that makes music, with tube-like apparatus made of felt for connecting sound, modular fashion. From the raucous duo Great […]
Big orange boombox from surplus & salvage
Sam built a distinctly funky street stereo with a construction sign front panel and speakers rescued from the trash – nice aesthetic! The box makes use of a basic car stereo at the core – apparently even cheap ones come with USB and line-in nowadays. (finally!) Related: Turbo II, Junkyard Boogaloo – amazing boombox!
Virtual homebrew synth
Nick created interactive flash versions of two of his homebrew synths. Though I was at first expecting all the synth’s interface functionality recreated in software, the wide array of strange samples is still fun to experiment with. Sweet panel design too … but the interior’s aesthetic is even better – Don’t miss Nick’s other awesome […]
Using Arduino with Ableton’s Max for Live software
Liubo documents the setup/customization involved with routing Arduino sensor data to the Max for Live software. Joining the audio capabilities of Ableton Live with the malleable data processing of Max/MSP, this should make controlling multimedia with hardware a relatively simple task (and likely a much faster than before). From Ableton’s site – Basically, Max for […]
