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American Museum of Radio & Electricity in Bellingham, WA

"The American Museum of Radio and Electricity (Update: now the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention) offers an exciting and educational experience for audiences of all ages. Compelling, interactive exhibits spanning four centuries of scientific achievement and cultural heritage are featured in a world-class collection of unique objects. The American Museum of Radio and Electricity displays the inventions and innovations that changed the course of human history.

The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is a 501(c)(3)non-profit charitable organization."

I was fortunate enough to visit the museum this past weekend. The museum primarily focuses on the history of electricity and radio. To my surprise they had a display on the theremin. The museum as a whole was pretty incredible. I hadn't been to their website prior to my visit so I had no idea what to expect. If you are ever in the area, definitely drop by and ask for the mini guided tour. The tour guide we had did a great job not only letting us know what we were looking at and answering our questions, but he gave us some functional demos of the historical equipment. BTW, if you are into steampunk, this should rank on the top of your list of sites to visit. Just check out my flickr set here (or slide show at the bottom of this post). Note the black and white key layouts on the keyboards in the pics. Aside from the one organ, they are not actually musical keyboards, they are telegraphs. Side note: all photos were taken with my iPhone 4.

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Sesame Street: Herbie Hancock Makes Sounds

YouTube via SesameStreet | August 07, 2008

"For more videos and games check out our new website at http://www.sesamestreet.org

In this video, Herbie Hancock shows kids electronic music.

Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world."

Be sure to see the Sesame Street label below for more.

push.pull pedal

via pushpullpedal.blogspot.com

"My description isn't quite there yet, but I'm so excited I had to share it anyway... think sonic synthy mayhem with some decimation and 8 bit mixed in with 4 joysticks. self oscillation, feedback, crunchy distortion, blippy fun."

Symbolic Sound Kyma X + Capybara 320 Basic System

via this auction
"Basic Capybara 320 system complete with firewire drive interface and Kyma X software CD (once installed you can update to the latest version off the symbolic sound website). It also comes with PDF versions of the Kyma X Revealed instruction manual as well as information on Prototypes and the Tau Editor.

This system has long been the secret weapon for professional sound designers and musicians such as BT, NIN, Aphex Twin, and many others. Specs below.

Imagine the sound designer's dream machine...
• a machine that would let you graphically string together unlimited-length chains of processing and synthesis modules and run them with zero latency on a dedicated multiprocessor computer with little or no impact on your main computer's memory or processing capabilities...
• where you could expand the processing capabilities of your hardware transparently, simply by plugging in more processing cards, because the machine was designed from the outset with scalability and multiple processors in mind...
• where you'd never have to sacrifice sound quality just because you're trying to squeeze more real time processing out of your desktop or laptop computer...
• with FireWire, timecode, MIDI, and 8 channels of 24-bit 100 kHz audio...
• controlled by the award-winning Kyma software with cutting-edge algorithms like granular processing, real-time analysis/resynthesis, aggregate synthesis, and spectral morphing...
• an online community of colleagues at the leading edge of film, music, advertising, and game development...
• a tech support staff that is among the most dedicated and educated in the business,
• and a symbolic, blue LED on the front panel.
Hardware Specifications

Basic Configuration
• four processors installed on the motherboard
• 96 MB sample RAM
• 12 expansion slots
• I/O and external sync (see below)
• External desktop or rackmount case (protects the DSPs and converters from the electrically noisy environment inside your personal computer, and leaves valuable slot-space free to use for other cards on your host computer)

Expansion Card
• two processors installed on the expansion card
• 48 MB sample RAM (per card)
• Up to 12 expansion cards (for a total of 28 processors) can be added

Inputs and Outputs
• 4-8 channels
• 32-100 kHz sample rate
• 24-bit
• Balanced Analog and Digital (AES/EBU)

External Synchronization
• Word Clock input
• VITC & LTC Timecode input and output

Interface options
• FireWire for Macintosh OS X and OS 9, Windows XP, 2000, and ME desktop and laptop machines"

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Casper Electronics Drone Lab in Black

via Casper Electronics

"The Drone Lab has gotten a make over. We’ve done away with the standard old green PCB and upgraded to a more sophisticated…elegant black! The Drone Lab is available as a kit or a finished unit through our order page. OR build your own from scratch. The drone lab is completely open source and we love to see people build their own!"