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Watch a VU meter turn into percussion, control voltage
Here’s a fun hack: a vintage-style meter needle turns into a source of percussion and signal for a modular.
Read moreDown with Sequencers: The Age of Glass Finger-Drums Through Their Beats, Live [Videos]
For years, drummers have had to look sideways at drum machines — boxes with step sequencers blinking, out to replace them. With acts like The Age of Glass, tables are turned. The sounds are electronic (Access Virus, Machinedrum), but the playing is all live. Drummer Nick Froud plays all those parts without any sequencing, fingers […]
- July 22, 2013
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Slap That Desk: Turn Any Surface into an Instrument, with a Plug-and-Play Accessory
You know the type. The drummer who, even robbed of drum sticks, is tapping on the walls, the car door, the desk… and maybe you are that person. When rhythms and musical gestures are bouncing around your head, the whole world just feels like something you want to play. It seems as natural as breathing. […]
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