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Bioni Samp translates bee behaviors and sounds into electronic music to help raise awareness of the ecological issues threatening them. Continue reading The Beekeeper Who Makes Synth Music With His Bee Colonies
You want old skool electronic music? How about 1951?
Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have just restored what is probably the oldest piece of recorded, computer-generated music. Recorded in 1951, the rendition of “God Save The King”, “Baa-Baa Black Sheep” and “In The Mood” was produced by a computer built by none other Alan Turing and other researchers at the Computing Machine Research Laboratory in Manchester.
These phat beats were captured by the BBC for broadcast on an acetate disk that the researchers found in an archive. They sampled and restored the recording, fixing the rather …read more
Sequencers allow you to compose a melody just by drawing the notes onto a 2D grid, virtually turning anyone with a moderate feel for pitch and rhythm into an electronic music producer. For [Yuvi Gerstein’s] large-scale grid MIDI sequencer GRIDI makes music making even more accessible.
Instead of buttons, GRIDI uses balls to set the notes. Once they’re placed in one of the dents in the large board, they will play a note the next time the cursor bar passes by. 256 RGB LEDs in the 16 x 16 ball grid array illuminate the balls in a certain color depending …read more
Continue reading Orbs Light to Billie Jean on this Huge Sequencer
