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September 08, 2007
Musical/Sound interface for Mario Bros
Linked from odbol.com I found this. Audio control interface for Mario Brothers!
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Wearable MIDI trigger devices: Drum Pants
I see your wah wah boots and raise you with Drum Pants! This are apparently the creation of Tyler Freeman, a new wave artist working with code and techno-tomfooler instead of paint. (loosely lifted from his site: odbol.com
Basically it's a cheap MIDI keyboard (in this case a PSR-200) gutted and the keys replaced with little piezo trigger patches which are then sewn into the pants. The triggering of the piezo transducer is then voiced through the midi device and speaker of your choice.
The future of drum pants:
It would also be fun to employ a set of drumsticks for more precise drumming, but unless you're going to surgically attach them to your hands, you won't be a true cyborg.
More clips after the jump.
Via Gizmodo.com
This clip features Tyler combining the drum pants with a Loopstation
Crazy Brazilian clip featuring a band with more obvious triggers on pants. Not a bad old groove happening actually.
Posted by funnelbc at 06:34 PM | Comments (0)
Why I love CreateDigitalMusic
Ever have a crappy morning where just everything upsets you and everything goes wrong? Somedays that happens and it's really damn average. To cheer myself up I was doing the rounds of my favourite sites, and I read this excellent article by Gary Kibler on CDM. And it almost immediately changed my mood and gave me pause for reflection. It was excellent timing and I certainly needed cheering up!
What I wanted to say though, was that what I love about CDM is it's inclusive and constant high quality of writing. Peter wrangles it and has invested massive time in it, and is an almost constant source of inspiration for me and my personal side projects. I've been involved from a design point of view for a while, so I'm not exactly impartial... That said, the reason I got involved in the start out of genuine respect for what it is that CDM has come to represent.
For me, I see it as most accessible and inclusive online music community online. The sarcasm mostly gets left at the door and you get earnest, funny and well written music coverage and intelligent comments. And that deserves recognition.
Well done Peter, and well done the other writers on CDM it's a constant source of inspiration and if you don't visit it already you should.
Posted by funnelbc at 11:39 AM | Comments (0)
September 03, 2007
Percussa Audio Cubes
You know me. I loves my you-tubin'. But look! more tangible interfaces and they look like fun. Plus lights!
See more on their you-tube user page or at percussa.com
Via Matrix-Synth
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September 02, 2007
Tenori-On Prototype in Development Flickr Set
Tenori-On Prototype in Development Flickr Set
Posted by funnelbc at 10:35 PM | Comments (0)
Jam Sessions for DS
Rounding out this evening's you-tube festival, here's a lovely quick explanation of Jam Sessions DS.
I think this is the English Version of the japanses title Hiite Utaeru DS previously blogged here .
I forgot to follow this up, and now I must! More videos after the jump.
You get the idea. Nice.
Posted by funnelbc at 10:23 PM | Comments (0)
Falls Festival 2007 Lineup
Being the first year I'm likely to spend New Years Eve in Tasmania without having to run from pillar to post to entertain various relatives while I'm on Holidays I'm entertaining the idea of heading to the Falls Festival here in Tasmania.
Here's the 2007 line-up (at the time of writing the Marion Bay (Tas) lineup and the Lorne (Vic) appear to be very similar if not identical.
Kings of Leon
Groove Armada
Paul Kelly
Midnight Jugganauts
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Waifs
Built to Spill
Gotye
Jose Gonzalez
The Go! Team
Blackalicious
The Mess Hall
Girl Talk
Kev Carmody
Whisky Go Go's
Neville Staple's Specials
Magic Dirt
Sarah Blasko
Jackson Jackson
Visit them on the interweb
Posted by funnelbc at 10:03 PM | Comments (0)
Sony Rolly
This is interesting. If it's real it appears to be a little music reactive toy that does not much apart from flashes different colours and dances to music.
Nice.
Via the new and fancy gadgets.boingboing.net
p.s Sony this still doesn't excuse you for the PlayStation 3, or the rootkit debacle, or any other act of insane hubris you've recently been accused of.
Posted by funnelbc at 09:50 PM | Comments (0)
Tenori-On Price and another video
So apparently launch price is going to be 599 Pounds Sterling. The high price is mostly due to almost completely hand made production process.
It's still the hotness, and I still want one.
Posted by funnelbc at 09:45 PM | Comments (0)