MATRIXSYNTH

David Merrill & Jeevan Kalanithi: Siftable, Tangible Data Manipulation 2008

YouTube via MediaArtTube. see the Siftables label below for more.
"New Ways of Interacting and Manipulating Digital Information: TUI Solution.
Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform and OS on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Siftables was originally designed and built by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab. Patent filed.
More info: http://tacolab.com/projects/Siftables
http://siftables.com/"

Neon Voice of Saturn Family + toys

YouTube via CuriousInventor
"http://www.curiousinventor.... Nate got the whole family of voice of saturns (synth, seq, modulator, filter) and decided to color them up. Here's some musings from his lair."

Roland Juno-106: Battery Replacement

flickr by g.p.macklin

"After 20+ years of service, the battery died in my Juno 106. Out with the old and in with the new."

read more at Granular Matter

Hertz Donut Wogglebug Zorlon Cannon

YouTube via tkecni. via Junk Rhythm
"Hertz Donut eating the shit of of the Wogglebug, controlled my the Zorlon!"

Hertz Donut VS WMD

"The Harvestman Hertz Donut with the WMD Geiger Counter Demo"

AFG vs WMD Geiger Counter

"AFG sine wave into WMD Gieger Counter"

Update:
Zorlon with QMMG

Circuitbending Workshop

Circuitbending Workshop from Gijs on Vimeo.

"Circuitbending Workshop aan studenten koninklijk conservatorium den haag."
via http://gieskes.nl

Roland System 100M Noodle

via Swissdoc:

"I got recently a Roland System 100M (112/121/130/140/150)
http://www.qwave.de/georg/music/noodle_system_100m.mp3 just a wild noodle patch, thanks to CV LFO and they do retrigger, in between I switch the S&H input from noise to LFO out, there is one VCA in between, which is not DC proof, so a SQR gets a up/down spike with a lag, soft sync and ring mod used, allmost eating up all the cables I have..."

KORG DW8000 Audio Demo

via elmosexwhistle:
"I bought a korg dw8000, created a load of patches for it, and then recorded a demo mp3"

Peter Grenader - Secret Life

via Peter Grenader of Plan B
"Secret Life is a collection of my electro-acoustic music from the period from 2002 to 2007. It consists of studio works, sometimes referred to as tape music which were created in a controlled studio environment where the final result, the sounding music, was self-produced with little or no live performance involved.

Much of the music on this album was made on instruments of my own design, the best example being the title track. I began developing modular analog synthesizers in 2003 after tiring of trying to bend digital instruments in like manner. It's not the sonic differences between these two extremes which put me to this task. While different, both are viable and I think it's good to have these choices. It was the control limitations of the closed architecture associated with most digital instruments which presented the challenge. For many composers this wouldn't be an issue. For me however it made the creative process, my schick, quite laborious." You can listen to excerpts here.

Do take the time out to listen to some of the tracks. It is the sort of music I think I would find extremely difficult to make with most synths that I have. The flow of timbres, syncopation and space cause you to really focus on the journey of sound. It's like watching a great story unfold, exploring the wonders and sonic space of sound. In general, most of us are focused on visual exploration. We dream of exploring the stars, the oceans, and the natural wonders of the earth. Secret Life reminds us that there is sound to be explored as well. Really beautiful.