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Mixtape Alpha: An 8-bit Stylophone Synth in a Cassette Tape, $42
Electronic instruments really are becoming like folk instruments. US$42 now buys you a small board that you can touch directly, one that’s immediate and from which anyone can coax sounds. You can jam with it, pocket it; it’s affordable and direct and playable. And it all fits in a plastic cassette tape box. The re-released […]
Read moreCathode Rock: Kyle Evans Makes a TV Into an Oscilloscopic Axe of an Instrument
Pick up that TV and rock it, baby. While recalling a now-obsolete technology and the work of artists like Nam June Paik, de/Rastra is something of a (delightful) lie. In the form of a television, it appears to be a self-contained, vintage instrument. In reality, it’s a simulation, a CRT with “altered anatomy” that uses […]
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2012
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MeeBlip SE: Making Our Open Synth Hardware Better, More Available, Starting Now
The original vision of the MeeBlip was to make something affordable, something open and hackable, something anyone could get, something that could tell a story, and something we’d use to make some music. And since those are all goals of Create Digital Music, too, it’s a perfect physical compliment to what we do. For me, […]
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