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Gorgeous electro-acoustic instruments mix sculpture and noise
Forget analog pedals or digital boxes – 10cars have made a series of electro-acoustic inventions covered in wires and springs. And they sound wild and strange.
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A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire
Anyone can clone an 808. Not anyone can make a machine inspired by the 808 out of repurposed lighter springs, motors, and … oh yeah, flaming butane gas. Koka Nikoladze’s beat machines are going viral, and their demented, quirky sound tells you why.
Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019
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Watch techno made entirely with physical, mechanical objects
Techno has become folk art, popular music idiom. Yet it’s still often viewed through the machines that first made it. What if you could give it some sort of physical, mechanical form? That’s what Graham Dunning has done with Mechanical Techno. And in a new video (produced by Michael Forrest), he shows how it’s done.
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2015
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Camp America Releases a CD Encased in LEGO Blocks [Album Pick]
Peter Kirn - June 27, 2012
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Visual Music: A Waveform Made of Vinyl Records, Benga Single, Inspired by Seeing Sound
Peter Kirn - May 21, 2012
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