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Roland made an egg-shaped alien piano with flying drone speakers for its 50th anniversary
It’s just the piano for Ten Forward or the recreation deck of Heart of Gold. It’s made of a single piece of molded Japanese oak. It’s paired with floating drone speakers for real immersive sound. (You read that right. Flying drones.) It’s the instrument money can’t buy: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano.
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Platform is finally a desk made for electronic musicians, engineered by an architect
It’s often overlooked, but the one piece of technology that has advanced the least in electronic music making in the past decades might be … the furniture. Output, whom regular readers will know mainly as a software instrument maker, have decided to make something that’s harder – as in a desk. PLATFORM is a simple […]
We’re coveting this walnut desk stand for Push 2
Ableton’s Push hardware is making it onstage, but whether or not it suits that purpose for you, it’s an absolute godsend in the studio. Hands-on control of parameters, always-ready grid access to melodies and percussion, and tools for starting ideas from clips to sequences to playing live make it feel indispensable to those of us […]
Projection Mapping: Augmented Furniture, Augmented Sculpture in the Round
Peter Kirn - March 26, 2010
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Convertible Minimalist Mac Studio, Now Chart-Topping
Peter Kirn - June 23, 2006
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Turntable-Controlled Vibrating Chaise Longue
Peter Kirn - October 20, 2005
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