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Some interesting things I found on September 10th, 2008:

# minitek electronic music festival

here it finally is: new york’s electronic music + innovation festival! minitek is going to be slightly different from other festivals you know, even very different at times.

first of all because the festival combines two aspects: electronic music and innovation. while it seems pretty straight forward at first, you’ll see soon that we’re going to explore innovation not only in respect to music but also to other forms of art, science and technology.

Electronic music talents from around the world, a range of experimental art and technology installations, new consumer technologies that have never been applied in a festival context – such as RFID wristbands, and lots more.

Also check here and let Peter Kirn know Who Do You Want Interviewed At Minitek?

# More Cowbell.DJ – More Cowbell is the online spin off of the Saturday Night Live special featuring Will Ferrell as Gene Frenkle, the cowbell player, and Christopher Walken as the music producer, Bruce Dickenson. More Cowbell.dj allows you to cowbell any song you want and even add some Walken to the mix. I got a fever and the only prescription is cowbell.

# Making Music with the Arduino: Wires, Solder, and Sound Round-Up

Michael Una writes:

I received my Arduino Diecemila in the mail last week and have started to experiment with using it to synthesize audio and video. I’m not very experienced with programming microcontrollers, so I’ve been doing a lot of research to see what’s out there, and it’s greatly encouraging to see that people are taking this little kit in fun directions.

# Pipe Organ Chair – This is a pipe organ chair that plays a tune when you sit down (insert your musical furniture joke here).

# Advanced Mega-Round-Up: Going Microtonal with Synths

Peter Kirn writes:

Digital software instruments give you opportunities to explore new sounds and timbres, so why not add tuning to the list? Kore@CDM contributor and sound designer Eoin Rossney helps us navigate the potentially intimidating world of microtuning. Microtonal sound simply refers, generally, to tunings beyond the now-standard 12-Tone Equal Temperament we find on modern pianos. First off, microtuning doesn’t have to sound dissonant or “out of tune” – like other choices with synthesis, it can simply give you some new sonic abilities. Native Instruments’ synths are well-suited to the task, as many having tuning capabilities built-in. If you’re using plug-ins to assist your microtonal voyage, Kore is a natural with its plug-in hosting capabilities. But the most important thing is just to dive in somewhere and see what happens – with no physical instrument to retune, it’s something anyone can do.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 28th, 2008:

• Musical Furnishings – The Musical Rumba Series – Design your own personal drum table with durable, interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts. Choose from four different sized tables to suit your musical and space needs. The smallest table accepts four of the smaller instruments and the largest accepts sixteen.

Musical Furnishings – The Musical Rumba Series

• Zoom H2, Marantz PMD 620 And Sony PCM D50: Interior Vs. Exterior Recording – For rounds two and three of the Field Recorder Shootout, Owen O'Malley tests out our three recorders to a large indoor shopping mall, and to the tracks. . . the train tracks!
• Abletonator…coin-op electro shock… – Jr Savage's acrade style Ableton rig.
• BeatSpinner 2.0 – allows the user to sequence drum loops and other sound loops and then witness their playback as the interface rotates physically before their eyes.
• Functional Guitars Made From Video Game Consoles – So, you've got a few broken game consoles laying around collecting dust and have always wanted a unique guitar, why not spend a few weekends building your own?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 20th, 2008:

• 5 Reflection Reducing Products
  

  Problem: Your recording room is too large or not properly treated for vocals, you need some way of reducing the room sound before it hits the mic.

  Audio Geek Zine lists a few devices to help isolate the room from the mic.
   

• The Amazing Staircase – Combines a staircase with bookshelves, clever!
• limpfish.com – Beautiful art including portraits of Simpsons characters painted in the style of Rembrandt
• Guitar Effects Schematics & Projects – Muzique.com’s resources for building your own guitar effects.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 3rd, 2007:

• Bicycles That Carry Powerful Beats, and Even a Rider or Two – Bicycles outfitted with elaborate stereo systems installed by the youths.

Guy with big sound on his bike (photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

• Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft – This classical music recording giant that’s owned by Universal Music Group, launched its own DRM-free online music store.
• Dollar Store Parabolic Microphone – A folding plastic umbrella hat on a paint roller handle.
• Boex Pencil Bench, – Pencils + bench = pencil bench!
• Flickr: Photos from Phillip West – Amazing paper sculptures of animals and Star Wars figures.
• Jason Hackenwerth – Wonderful balloon sculptures.
• Futurama Vol. 5 – Heads In Jars – Iconfactory icons by Gedeon Maheux. Famous celebrity heads from the Futurama TV series (16 icons).

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 4th, 2007:

• Chilli-based anaesthetic won’t leave you drooling – Clifford Woolf and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of blocking just the pain neurons using capsaicin – the active ingredient in chilli peppers – along with a version of lignocaine that can’t diffuse through cell membranes unassisted.
• Big Daddy Hands – The bigger version of the soldering tool, useful for holding more than a small circuit board.
• InfraRecorder – a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
• Sketch Furniture by FRONT – Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.
• Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century – A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip Hair.
• Ryan McLennan – Beautiful acrylic on paper paintings of wildlife.
• Mike Leavitt – Action Figures – These are articulating, miniature, interactive sculptures, aka. “action figures” or “toys”, each hand-sculpted with synthetic polymer clay, wood and elastic by Leavitt.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 22nd, 2007:

• USB Powered Mini Greenhouse – Features an adjustable growth light and an easy view window that offers maximum plant protection.
• Amazon forest carved up in resettlement scam – Rather than moving communities onto land that has already been deforested Incra has been allocating tracts of land that are still part of the rainforest.
• reddit media: intelligent fun online – Monitors reddit?s front page, collects picture & video links, and builds an archive of them over time.
• Monster attack steals user data – US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.
• Robots Can Be Friendly, Groovin?: Max-Powered Keepon and Beatbots – The Keepon is a cute, yellow robot that dances to music you may have seen bopping on YouTube. It shows how subtle changes could make robotics friendlier in the near future.
• Deezer – The first global website for music on demand with no restrictions: listening to all kinds of music is now free, unlimited, legal and accessible to all Internet users via a Web browser.
• Google Earth Shows Real-Time Traffic – This has been achieved by adding a Traffic layer in Google Earth. Once you?ve enabled this feature, you?ll see a real-time picture of traffic and conditions.
• SimpleTEXT: a cellphone enabled performance – SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops.
• Lee Broom – The application of neon elements to the outlines of the six hand-carved Mahogany pieces “haloes the delicate lines of the traditional furniture whilst casting deep reflections in their richly lacquered surfaces.”