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ONDO Music Editing Phone

ONDO Music Editing Phone
"Ondo enables a more flexible and physical experience with mobile phones

Pilotfish, a progressive industrial design and product development studio based in Munich, Amsterdam and Taipei introduced Ondo, a dedicated music editing phone concept. The Ondo concept enables OEMs to visualize a new form of user interaction for mobile phones.

User
The target user for “Ondo” is the music enthusiast who seeks to interactively capture and edit sounds. Going beyond software-based solutions of other products, it is specifically designed to effectively collect pure sounds and is specially constructed to create a tactile sound editing experience.

Jamming
An innovative feature of “Ondo” is the three removable display ”sticks”. In their normal state, the “sticks” act as a unified touch display for the mobile device. When removed, each can be separately clipped onto a musical instrument or person to capture live sound. Like a portable recording studio, “Ondo” makes mixing tracks easy, because each “stick” picks up isolated sounds from each individual instrument. The recordings can be immediately sent via MMS (Multimedia Messaging) around the globe allowing musicians at different geographical locations to jam together.

Music Editing
Made from form-sensitive flexible materials, the “Ondo” allows the user to modify recorded sounds by physically twisting and bending the device. Like a guitarist pulling on a whammy bar, the user can feel and hear the musical effects as they create them.

Mixing
In party mode, “Ondo” works as a digital mixer enabling the user to create seamless transitions between songs. This is made easy with interactive touch functions combined with integrated software support."

via fabio via Networked_Music_Review

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Roth Mobot Circuit Bending Workshop - Happy Earth Day!

"Saturday, April 25th, 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
The Peter Jones Gallery
1806 W Cuyler Ave., 2nd Floor

~FREE~ & ~BYOB~

Tommy Stephenson and Patrick McCarthy from the circuit bent duo, Roth Mobot, will be hosting a special FREE Circuit Bending Workshop as part of their ongoing efforts to further educate the public about creatively recycling e-waste, and the other Acquired Technology Arts.

Learn how to recycle common, often discarded, battery-powered electronic devices into unique musical and video instruments.

Bring your current and past projects and meet Crème Dementia’s Austin Cliffe and GetLoFi.com’s Alex Deeba, as well as fellow Hardware Hackers, Circuit Benders, and Contraptionists from around the Midwest.

For more information see www.RothMobot.com."
via brian c

Yamaha YC 25-D

via Rumski forum. via fischek.

via Harmony Central user reviews:
"It's a loaded duo-manual combo organ, with 16,8,4,1,2,2-2\3,1-3\5, trombone, kinura (?),trumpet, and string for the top keys. 16,8,4,2-2\3 on the bottom. It's got a 19 not bass section,which can be turned on or off. This has 8, 16, and "bass guitar" which is suprisingly ahead of its time. (Think 1980 synth) There is also percussion, and vibrato, as well as optional bass pedals. The weirder features are the very unmusical "Attack Glide" stop which bends the note up to the desired pitch. Next to this a "Touch Mute" stop is located, which just changes the tone, and drops the volume a bit. I find the action noticably bad. There's no sensation of "click" when the key is pressed. It feels like playing on rubber pads. This is quite irritating."

Dontsu~Dontsu~

YouTube via unyo303. "Doepfer A100 & KORG ER-1"

waldorf blofeld and akai ewi 4000s

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"all sounds are from blofeld triggered by akai ewi midi setup with audio into a electro harmonix 2880. demonstrating a few sounds for a show tonight."

Musikmesse: Musikmesse 2009 - EOWave

YouTube via musotalk

Musikmesse: Musikmesse 2009 - Arturia

YouTube via musotalk

Light and Sound Devices

flickr set by AmazingRolo
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top: Don't Talk Back prototype
"This will eventually be a series of synthesizers which respond to light, positioned together with a series of lights that respond to sound. Exterior sounds generate light, which in turn generates sound, creating a loop of flashing light and noise. Components are housed in clear glass containers and each element is different, making a family of organic self-perpetuating characters which respond to each other as well as audience interaction."

bottom: The Gelkie Family
"The Gelkies are small synthesizers and amps housed in clear glass or plastic containers. They are dependent on each other to make sound and light...go to www.theamazingrolo.net for more details."

Update: vids here.