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Mogees: Realtime Gesture Recognition with Contact Microphones

Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees project — “an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime…

Jay Watts III


Cultural Ephemera from Montreal, QC.…

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Closed.
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Parkdale Globe
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Dead Raccoon.
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One of the two chairs that I’m going to sand, stain and...
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American Music

“American Music” is an iPhone and Android application that uses contextual geolocation data as a kind of musical notation, creating a generative soundtrack to accompany everything from cross-country trips to short drives to the mall.

Cybraphon

Junkshop/steampunk social-network-enabled automatic music machine:
Cybraphon consists of a number of…

Tenori-on

Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu…

Sonar Tonebank

The Sonar Tonebank is a simple electronic music instrument that uses a range sensor to trigger sound samples. Players can create musical soundscapes by moving in front of the range sensor, which maps pitch to distance.

Tone Matrix

Andre Michelle’s Tone Matrix is a simple but Flash-based music sequencer. You can copy-paste sequences…

John Maus – Maniac

John Maus is a master. If you like “Maniac,” check out “Tenebrae.” It is Easter Sunday,…

Drawdio: Turn almost anything into a Theremin

Everybody should have one of these. You can learn how to make them here.…

Deadmau5 iPhone app

I think the albums-as-applications concept will probably go a lot further than just a simple track-mixing…

Fotoplayer

This is what I want for Christmas. Talk about old-skool drum machines!
In the early days of silent motion pictures,…

Animal Collective – Reverend Green Live

Animal Collective = magic.…

Beyrouth, 6bB underground

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S’il y a eu ce Cahier d’un retour au pays natal en littérature, Radwan pourrait bien en composer…

The Trons

The Trons are an all-robot band, composed of little machines named Ham, Wiggy, Swamp and FiFi. They have a MySpace…

Vamos a la playa

Everything about this music video is awesome.…

Muxtape

Since its launch in March of ’08, Muxtape has become ridiculously popular. I’ve made a mix that…

"trippy green skull"

Animation by Alessa Kreger.…

Absolut Quartet

The Absolut Quartet is essentially a marimba played by rubber balls that fall on to the keys after having being…

MGMT "Electric Feel"

This is a screen capture of someone using MGMT’s interactive “Electric Feel” video. Visit…

Counter-Point

This project remaps the combat sounds triggered during gameplay in Counter-Strike: Source, producing a peaceful, collaboratively-created soundscape.

David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — And Megastars

The fact that Radiohead debuted its latest album online and Madonna defected from Warner Bros. to Live Nation,…

Looptracks

Looptracks is an interactive music video. Many websites use interactivity as a means of accessing non-interactive…

Popol Vuh – Improvisation (1971)

The Popol Vuh (K’iche’ for “Council Book” or “Book of the Community”;…

Vinyl MP3

The Vinyl MP3 project brings together new digital technology with old vintage analog technology. The interface…

Synchromy (1971)

McLaren took this equivalence of image and sound even further, and probably to its logical end, in his remarkable…

Bran Van 3000 – Shopping

Outcasts fight for scraps while the rich drown their sorrows via telepresence. Images of a dystopian future accompany Bran Van 3000′s 2001 double-single release of “Shopping” and “More Shopping.”