Mr. Curly’s Contrabass Clarinet

4 02 2012

Loop musician Mr. Curly makes electronic instruments out of peculiar things:

 





Hydraulophones

4 02 2012

Hydraulophones, or FUNtains, use flowing to hydraulically create tones.





Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History

3 02 2012

Glorious! I wish this project the utmost success.

Share with all the Boomers you know ;)

http://www.indiegogo.com/Haight-Ashbury-Museum-of-Psychedelic-Art-and-History





Real ‘Kitchen Synthesizer’ w/ Arduino to iPad MIDI

31 01 2012

If anyone saw that ktichen-synthesizer video, apparently it was faked, but no worries because here’s a real one that’s way cooler! Thanks @BrettThePark





Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun (Francois K. Remix)

6 01 2012




Kadinchey (Bhutan remixed)

5 12 2011

New remix by Pogo. This one of the sights and sounds of Bhutan.





Acro-ballet sexy dance

9 10 2011

Beautiful sexy acrobatic-yoga ballet dance by former Cirque du Soleil performers:





Lowkey ft M1 (Dead Prez) & Black The Ripper – OBAMA NATION Pt. 2

27 09 2011

Excellent, excellent music video.  Please share it widely.





3D Printing watch

23 09 2011

Scan and print industrial tools with moving parts in minutes.  Great introductory video to 3D printing:

Also…

Makerbot recieves $10 million dollars in funding from Amazon founder and other angel investors

and the New Museum in New York team up with Makerbot to offer and design challenge.

3D printers for kids: Origo makes a toy that makes more toys.

3d printers for criminals: Thieves steal $400,000 from ATMs using 3D printed tech.

Have a look at the a 3D printed car. Expected to hit the market as soon as 2014.

Here’s a list of 10 wearable, edible, flyable and transplantable objects made with 3d printers.

and PopSci has a feature on Printing Musical Instruments and Instruments of War.

When you can print nearly anything, who will say what not to print?





Minimal music stream

14 09 2011

New streaming radio station added to online radio links in sidebar:

http://minimalstation.de/





Music banned from Strawberry Fields and other Central Park locations

10 06 2011

Central Park has imposed “quiet zone” rules on the most famous places for street musicians and performers, such as Bethesda Fountain area and Strawberry Fields, the John Lennon memorial set up his wife Yoko Ono.   Where is the outrage?  Where is the mass civil disobedience?  C’mon NYC, how much more of all this will you take?

Although park police have been enforcing the new rules, Boyd was singing in the Bethesda Alcove with a trio and an amplifier on Monday. He said he was arrested last Wednesday and that he had racked up thousands of dollars of fines for disobeying the Quiet Zone rules.

Read the story here.





Matmos at the Museum

10 06 2011

Experimental electronic duo, Matmos, reveal some of the surprising ways they generate their sounds.








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