Our corporate mission is a joy to live up to: Contribute to culture and industry through creativity. We hit the trifecta with our recent boombox project with Joe Grand; it highlights all three key elements of our motto – culture, industry, and creativity. It involves hacker royalty, breakdancers, state-of-the-art circuit board manufacturing technology, rappers, a […]
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Halloween is fast approaching, and what better way to weird out your neighbors and spook your guests than some creepy theremin music. A staple of suspenseful soundtracks and low rent sci-fi, this electronic musical instrument is controlled without physical contact by the musician.
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Digital artist + RIT assoc. professor W.Michelle Harris makes a Rochester crosswalk sing and explores the boundaries of conceptual, digital art.
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Creative musical interfaces are always a pleasure to find. This one was circulating around twitter this week and really caught our attention. This is the Abacusynth, by Elias Jarzombek. This interesting interface is a musical device that was inspired by how people interact with an abacus. By presenting an easy to understand physical interface, this […]
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Studying an instrument is a lengthy and worthwhile process, but what if you want to rock out today? I made the Instant Star Guitar so that I could get right to the fun part of playing music. You might remember a video by the band “Axis of Awesome” (some cussing) who famously pointed out that the same 4-chord progression […]
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The Maker Music Festival celebrates the makers of innovative, experimental and just plain unusual musical instruments.
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Shian Storm sought the legendary guitar tone of Eddie Van Halen, and embarked on a years-long journey to design and build an amplifier that could bring it to life.
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