Here’s another piece from the Elektra Festival! The Cycloid-E is a sort of multi-pendulum with five segments, one connected to the other, each with a sound system in it. As the central segment moves, it induces chaotic oscillations in the other segments, and emits all sorts of strange and exciting sounds. At the festival it [...]
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This week I’ve been checking out the Elektra Festival in Montreal. It’s a celebration of electronic/digital art and media. So far it’s been pretty great! One of the especially cool pieces here is the Daredroid. It’s a dress that mixes a cocktail for you in exchange for a round of Truth or Dare. It was [...]
CBS Morning reports on Pat Metheney’s robotic musical accompaniment, much of which was made by Eric Singer and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR). I interned with LEMUR while many of the pieces in this band were being made, all the way back in 2009. It’s great to see everything in action.
Very nice BeatSneaks-like project from Didier Brun for Adidas: Sweet moves. Coincidentally, I actually constructed a very similar device last year, using many of the same tools: XBee radios, force-sensitive resistors, and Processing. Here are some pictures of that prototype: There’s some hardware debouncing on the module there, and then the XBees and Processing handle [...]
Had to post this when I saw it on boingboing: “Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a sound effects and music studio established in the 1950s that had a vast influence on electronic music and synthesizer technology.” She made all sorts of gigantic, messy synthesizers full of [...]
A fellow Site 3 member brought some beautiful old floorboards into the shop recently. The wood is wonderful – really dense, hard, and pretty. I took a couple of offcuts destined for the wood stove, cleaned them up and made a nice new cutting board for my kitchen at home: Patching things up… Those slices [...]
Hobgob Stereo Tube Amp Kit purchaser and enterprising maker Karim recently sent me some pictures of his completed amp. They are great! It’s really exciting to see someone build something that you helped put together. I like his idea of using alligator clips to connect the speaker terminals to the output transformers. That way you [...]
Jameson Young recently built himself a rad pair of BeatSneaks using my designs. He plans to make a system of pads that will go all over the body: “Think step dancing meets beatboxing. Amplified.” How exciting! I like them. Check it out: Jameson’s build reminded me of this project by Jason Hockman at McGill. It’s [...]