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The 9th run is on and someone will be lucky 909.

via ladyada's ranting

diy* Festival 2008 - Zurich Switzerland

"Friday 5th until Sunday 7th December 2008, Zurich

* do it together, the culture of collaborative art-making

Exhibition, concerts, talks, workshops and a juried prize: the festival of Making Art is being held for the 4th time and is once again conceived as a transdisciplinary platform for those who aren’t satisfied with commercial products and artwork, as well as people who prefer to tailor their tools by themselves to fit their own wishes.

The venue is Dynamo and its open workshops in the center of the city of Zurich. The festival is being organized by the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK, in partnership with the Cycle Opérant art collective."

more info here

THREE KINGS

Be sure to click on the image for the full size shot. The mosaic is made with transistors, chips and other parts. Absolutely amazing.

You can find more info on it at Mitch Wells Art.

"Three Kings is a triptych that celebrates the work of three electronic instrument designers: Tadao Kikumoto, Robert Moog, and Roger Linn." via Mitch Wells

Update: it looks like Blogger shrunk the image. You can find a larger version here.

The Birth of a CS80 Replica Controller

This one is via Anders who brought us the recent Arturia Origin videos. He is building himself a custom hardware controller based on the CS80. It will consist of the following:

Ensoniq TS-10 for poly aftertouch
2*Doepfer USB-64 cards merged to convert sliders to midi cc.
a Doepfer RM2 ribbon controller

Andrew is still looking for CS80 colored sliders. If anyone has any leads, please let me know either via the comments or my contact info on the bottom right of the site.

First modular film

YouTube via RothHandle

Modular seq vs the utopia synth


The q960 vs the teaspoon

Reactable (used by Bjork) - Soundtrack Music Demo

YouTube via OfficialDeathCubeK
"Reactable (used by Bjork) - Soundtrack Demo

http://www.VOLUMEN11.com - ONE LOUDER!

Reactable is a collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table, and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Multiple simultaneous users share total control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on the surface of a bright circular table. Manipulating these objects, representatives of the classical components of a modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sound typologies, generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer. There are only 5 reacTable, which included it was sold to Icelandic singer Bjork."

Playing megaman - airman theme on an atari punk console

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Well, trying. Obviously you can't do anything too musical with a single oscillator but hey, I tried."

Arturia Origin Live Tweaking 1

YouTube via rcmusic35

Arturia Origin Live Tweaking 2


ARTURIA ORIGIN

"A small video about the new synth from Arturia: ORIGIN. All sounds from the Origin. At the end, some pictures!"

Simmons Clap Trap

images at this auction

"Simmons Clap Trap, also known as the Musicaid Claptrap. This is one of the later originals, as it is already screen-printed 'Simmons'... This differs from the later Clap Traps in that every part of the sound generation is analogue - the later ones had a digital clap sample in them. Nasty... Has two elements to the sound - Ensemble and Crash, with a Balance control between them.

Ensemble simulates the actual clap sound, with controls for Ragged/Tight (time between hands coming together) and High/Low (pitch). There is also a Humanizer control to add a random element to the sound.

Crash is a noise generator, with controls for Long/Short (decay) and High/Low (pitch).

There is a Manual Trigger button and an Automatic repeat button, with variable speed. The Clap Trap can be triggered from just about anything - mic, sensor, tape, synth, footswitch.

Power switch on the rear with Audio Out, Foot, Synth and Audio trigger inputs (with adjustable Sensitivity). Also an input to switch the triggers in and out."

SX-150 synth controlled by Arduino

YouTube via kbroom. You might remember this from this flickr shot post.
"A Gakken SX-150 analog synth controlled by Arduino. The SX-150 has a little reverb and delay added to it for good measure. For a more detailed explanation of what's happening, go to: http://mrbook.org/blog/2008/11/22/con..."