This looks like a lot of fun. Ototo is a small synthesizer which allows you to connect various sensors, including capacitive touch sensors (similar to the touchscreen on a phone or tablet) to control the output. The fun part is that the sensors can be attached to other objects to create new instruments in any
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Simple Feedback Trainer is a nice tool for folks doing live sound to help recognize and correct the frequencies causing feedback. The tool provides a nice mixing desk graphic interface and plays a tone of a random frequency which you have to correct in as few guesses as possible. It’s a very simple idea which
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Theremin is a playable synthesizer created in HTML5 using Web Audio API from Femur Design. The web audio theremin is a touch friendly & responsive audio synthesizer built in javascript using the Web Audio API with HTML5 canvas. It works best in Safari or Chrome according to its creator Luke Phillips, and provides some nice
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There’s been some great examples of hacking old hardware to make music recently. This isn’t a new trick (here’s an old post which shows an arduino project to play The Imperial March on a floppy drive for example) but the bar has been raised recently. Marc Almond caught wind of a version of ‘Tainted Love’
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I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Dr. Bernie Krause where he presented natural soundscapes from around the world. Dr. Krause is an electronic music pioneer who has spent the last 40 years recording soundscapes from around the world. This fascinating talk touched on the idea that animals in the wild find their
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