"Swamp Tech" pioneer Quintron is on some nuttiness to say the least. saw this over at xlr8r, its called drum buddy. the box is activated by light, has ins so you can connect other things through it. this guy hooks up a synth drum, a portable record player, and a television. Truth be told, guess real hiphop is kind of based around innovative geekiness. Yet, once you style on the rigged equipment SUPER HARD-its like- 'I'm fresh as hell, yeah, you know.' This is insane just watch.
go to www.drumbuddy.com to see more pictures of this mad scientist's lab
ethersphere8: electric moustache gallery from summer-july-ish some dope works by my good friend andrew fansler and myself we hadn't spoke in months, besides an occassional email and yet things were very cohesive for the show. i got tons more images and video, so once i stop playing around, the full visual sex effect can take place.
OTTO is a functioning prototype combining interactive hardware and computer software, the invention of Luca De Rosso. He produced the design as a thesis project for his masters’ degree in Visual and Multimedia Communications at IUAV University of Venice. It uses the Arduino open source hardware platform and Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP software, and Luca accordingly is quick to credit the assistance of those two communities. In that sense, two, I think it points to lots of new design in the field of integrated hardware and software – not just standalone hardware or standalone software or generic controllers for anything, but hardware that itself behaves like software.
more on this at this link here________>>>>. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/digitalp
Pixelh8 is a genius!!! Treading that fine line that is very intelligent, or even geeky-in a video game programmer kind of way AND waayyyy hip, foreward thinking, audio jock; Pixelh8 is doing wonderful things in the music, design, and even historical worlds.
he approached the new media museum in london, england about a sound project. the new media museum basically houses all of the oldest computers you can ever think of. So he goes, records them, mics their hisses and buzzing, and beeping, and blirping, as well as the other atmospheric qualities of the place, like the sound of all these archaic machines on together at once. You know, like the sound of your office space at work that you never pay attention to until you're the only one there and its just you and the machines in some kind of weird harmony.
Either way, go to FutureMusic's online site to read, see, hear more about it-he's in the latest edition. Pick it up in a store near you as well.
and just so you can see the shit i'm talking about, enjoy these videos from Pixelh8's 'Obsolete' release that came out a couple of weeks ago and check my blog roll for his site. "Math" from 'Obsolete'
and you know what else is sick...how this dude created an easy to use music software and gave it away for free so that UK schools could use it as a teaching tool. America's 'Save the Music' where you at?!
ethersphere8: electric moustache gallery
