Approved By the Beatles and Hitler
NPR has this fascinating piece on the custom microphone building threaded with history of Neumann Microphones. Neumann made the smooth-sounding U47 that the Beatles recorded on almost exclusively on from 1962 to 1970, as did Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzge...
The Most Annoying Song Ever, Scientifically Speaking
I used to think kids playing the recorder was the worst “music” ever. Wrong. Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid conducted a poll a few years back of the music people hated the most, like holiday music, harps and bossano...
Amazing Direct Note Access is Photoshop For Music
Charlie over at DVICE is a musician, so if he says this Direct Note Access is miraculous, we definitely believe him. Think of this software suite as Photoshop, but for music—able to change any note to any other note even if it’s buried ins...
50-Year-Old Basement Organ is Real-esizer, Not Synthesizer
You’ve got to admire the passion of this guy who put a whole special effects organ in his basement some 50 or so years ago. It reminds us a lot of the recent Absolut Machine. Leon Berry’s music organ earned itself the nickname “Beast...
Marimba Table Turns Dining Into a Feast of Bings
Remember the drum table? Well, stick it next to this table with built-in marimba at a dinner party and you’d have a percussively good time. Designer Fumiaki Goto came up with the idea of building the instrument into the surface, so that whenever...
Cellphone-controlled Jukeboxes Bring New Meaning to Drunk Dialing
Touch Tunes and LocaModa are linking up 30,000 Jukeboxes that can be controlled via cellphone, meaning you don’t have to drunkenly stumble through hoards of people at a bar just to get some decent tunes. The juke boxes are all linked to media se...
Marimba Table Turns Dining Into a Feast of Bings
Remember the drum table? Well, stick it next to this table with built-in marimba at a dinner party and you’d have a percussively good time. Designer Fumiaki Goto came up with the idea of building the instrument into the surface, so that whenever...