MATRIXSYNTH

Pointless Noodling on the Moog Memorymoog

YouTube via mee3d.

"Here is the mighty memorymoog, this one has just been sold so this is the last noodling for me. This one is the actual one featured in Peter Forrest's A-Z of Synthesizer Technology books, I have owned it for 6 years and it's been perfect throughout, tuning all 6 voices every time - sad to see it go so here is it's swan-song."

via Mibrilane

Tiptop Audio Z3000 Test

You can find samples on navs.modular.lab

Zoybar modular instruments and Contest

Zoybar kaos pad III guitar

Find more videos like this on Zoybar

"Zoybar is a modular hardware platform for creating custom electric string instruments and effects.

The basic Zoybar kits enable you to assemble a variety of electric string instruments

that could be mounted with different sound effects (like the kaoss pad in the attached image).

You can learn more about the project here

A little more info
I was inspired form the open source movement.

In the virtual world of software production, every individual programmer can be a powerful autonomous production unit (provided with a web connection and a computer) where as in the physical world materials, energy, production lines, storage and marketing takes much more time, money and risks to become a reality.

The Zoybar components provide research and development tools as a sustainable, playable prototype platform.

The same modular parts can be assembled as different instruments, can be change during the performance and also be mounted with numerous special effects, just by adding and changing their position across the profile groves.

My vision is to found an open music instruments hardware community.

Every new effect or feature that would be created by an independent developer could become relevant to the whole Zoybar users and community.

Almost any application can be easily attached to the Zoybar platform, just by adding and changing its position across the profile groves with common bolts and screws.

One last thing,
We are giving Three First Edition Zoybar Hardware Kits.

The project is scheduled to be launched at December 2008 with a contest for music instruments and sound effect developers.

Entrants shall submit a video clip performance of their new instrument to demonstrate its musicality, design, and engineering features. Performances may include new self made sound effects, synthesizer or electronic instruments.

Three First Edition Zoybar Hardware Kits will be given to the three videos with the highest number of views received through the video interaction at Zoybar.net.

http://www.zoybar.net/contest"

Mrmr performance demo

YouTube via ecumedesjoursz. via fabio
"Mrmr is a a platform for creating dynamic user interfaces on mobile devices. This video shows its use on an iphone in a recent audiovisual performance and ends with an interview with its designers.

lots of documentation at http://poly.share.dj/projects/"

You can find Mrmr here:

IDMI Research Projects mrmr
Mrmr is an ongoing open-source research project to develop a standardized set of protocols and syntax conventions to control live installations and multimedia performances via mobile devices. The project is currently spearheaded by Eric Redlinger, researcher-in-residence at Brooklyn Polytechnic University’s Integrated Digital Media Institute.

Simply put, Mrmr is a technology that enables you to use ordinary cell phones and PDAs as controllers in audio-visual performances, or to participate in interactive museum exhibits, or to use your mobile device in the place of the mouse or trackpad from your full-size computer.

Key elements of the Mrmr project are:

* create your own interface using only a text editor
* multiuser by design / client peer-to-peer or client-server models supported
* open standards (zeroconfig/bonjour/mdns, OSC), open source
* dynamic interfaces: widgets can be reconfigured 'on the fly'

8bit ventures

http://www.8bitventures.com/

MSSIAH
"MIDI cartridge for the Commodore 64. Cheapest and easiest way to make your C64 MIDI compatible."

PROPHET64 - Discontinued (replaced by MSSIAH)

SID2SID - "Do-it-yourself circuit board. Helps installment of a second SID audio circuit in your Commodore 64. Brings stereo or up to six channels of polyphony with the MSSIAH."

Prophet 64: Sequencer Demo Song
YouTube via skrenos
"This is the Prophet 64 cartridge running on a Commodore 64c with dual SIDs. SID1 is a 8580 and SID2 is a 6581R2. I have lowered the frame rate to 1 FPS as the audio is the most important part.

This is just to show you what kind of sounds you can get out of the Commodore 64 with the P64 program."

via Mr. Array

Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center

via reed

"Here's a picture of the "classic Columbia-Princeton" setup the guy in the post was talking about, complete with Buchla 100 and 12-channel mixer."

Korg MS2000B meets ProCo RAT II

YouTube via DennisBastian
"The Korg MS2000B connected to a ProCo RAT II analog distortion.

ingredients:
- one oscilator with sawtooth wave
- filter set to 12dB/oct
- some eg/lfo modulation on the filter
- RAT set to explode
- no additional fx or processing"