Gaming Gear Music tech Tech
Hakai Labs lets you connect your classic NES controller to Eurorack
There’s no substitute for modular synthesis, patch cords and all. And there’s nothing quite like a classic Nintendo Entertainment System. So? Combine them.
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Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine
Start with a chemical process that grows crystals and silicon for semiconductors, build a multi-layered 6-7 voice drum machine around it, cover it with patch points and clusters of knobs and joysticks, and you get the Czochralski cells. It’s a complex drum machine rather unlike anything before it.
Peter Kirn - May 25, 2023
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
1977’s Bell Labs Alles synth demo came pre-Crumar, features Laurie Spiegel cameo
In 1977, the marriage of motion pictures and telephones somehow birthed Hal Alles’ Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer – an experimental additive synth that imagined new directions for both music and vocal communication. This 1977 demo has the creator show off that vision, and Laurie Spiegel is on-hand to explore the device compositionally.
Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023
Gear Music tech Tech
Erica’s modular Dada Noise System II dives into joys of joysticks, history of Dada
Peter Kirn - February 4, 2021
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Art From Trash, as ReFunct Media Makes a Symphony from Obsolete Gear [Videos]
Peter Kirn - May 10, 2012
Music Music tech
Luz: Live Motion Graphics, Controlled by Anything, Free on Linux and Now with DMX
Peter Kirn - March 24, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
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