New fruit-based MIDI-controller

Check out this video with Dr. Robert Schneider and Elijah Wood presenting a new kind of synth controller: By the way, the new Apples in Stereo record is here

Highlights from 2009 Musikmesse pt 1

The 2009 Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany started today. I’m not there but I read about it at Sonicstate, Harmony Central, Synthopia and Music Radar. Here are some of the most exiting new products I’ve found: Akai Miniak minisynth/vocoder Developed by Akai together with Alesis, this is a promising new synth. Alesis hardware has in my [...]

The history of multitouch

Bill Buxton of Microsoft research has made an overview of what has happened in multi-touch research. For those of you who thought multi-touch first came with Jeff Han or the Iphone, have a look at this page. The picture on top here is from the Multi-Touch Tablet developed at Toronto University in 1985. By the [...]

SFMOMA Artscope

Now you can zoom in on your favourite modern work of art and maybe discover something new while peeking through the magnifying lens. The SFMOMA Artscape is a very cool thing indeed! I’ve zoomed in on one of my favourite  modern artists, the swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). I discovered it through Information Aestehics

Touchscreen drum machine for Max/MSP

On Cycling ’74′s site I found a video of a drum machine someone have made in Max/MSP. They use it with a cheap touch overlay and the result is very impressive. A real performance tool! read more about the project here

Brian Eno Goes Soft

I usually avoid writing about apple products, but this video is ok: It’s Brian Eno’s ambient music application for Iphone or Ipod Touch. Just flick your finger on the screen and piano tones pops up. It’s relaxing!

Gibson Dark Fire

The Gibson Dark Fire is more than a beautiful guitar; it also has some fancy technology inside: The strings  can be tuned automatically as in the Gibson Robot Guitar released in 2007 – not to be confused with auto tune.. Two regular pickups, the Burstbucker 3 humbucker and a P-90H singlecoil Each string has a [...]

Cool organic synth thing

I stumbled across a brilliant post on Synthopia, a video showing a demo of the project the Sound of Touch. The instrument is made by David Merrill at MIT and is based on using a contact microphone and DSP to record and manipulate the sounds. I’m glad to see that there’s still some good ideas [...]

Multitouch i Windows 7

Microsoft har tidligere vist databordet Surface, en skjerm på størrelse med et kafébord som er lagd for interaksjon mellom mennesker. Nå har imidlertid Microsoft demonstrert det nye operativsystemet Windows 7 som innehar de samme multitouchmulighetene som Surface. Apple har allerede lansert en form for multitouch i sin MacBook Air. Her er det ikke snakk om [...]

Buchla Music Easel

Her sees Charles Cohen som spiller på en Buchla Music Easel modulær synth som det visstnok ble produsert bare 14 stykker av. Som det står i teksten til filmen er det mye bedre lyd med hodetelefoner! For HD-kvalitet: http://www.vimeo.com/902069