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Postby xTxRxAxVxIxSx » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:16 am

I've been seeing stuff like this around YouTube, and thought I'd share. I always like to see homemade stuff like this, including circuitbends and all that. Pretty interesting stuff. Anyway, to the sharing:

This one guy in particular, db3ll, has a few and they're pretty sweet. :D

Pennies 1
Pennies 2
MIDI Paper
MIDI Laser Drum
Driver's License MIDI Controller

And there's a lot of these - iPhone/iPod Touch as a MIDI controller. Not so hack-ey as any of the others, and the software probably isn't that complicated. Still, pretty cool.

Then I found this one, but I'm not sure if it's real or if he's just messing with stuff in sync with breaks that he edited earlier. I don't see why it couldn't work, though - we all probably did the potato + light bulb experiment in science class, right? :P Same principle would apply, I assume.

Anyone know of anything else like this stuff? I heard about someone making MIDI Pants, but I can't seem to find a video anywhere. :P

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Postby Silent Frog » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:40 pm

That Istari one isn't real, but it is very funny. This one by Tsunami Killcore is pretty interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oexALjBQV1k

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Postby xTxRxAxVxIxSx » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:39 am

Haha, sweet. That would be cool to see something like that live. I really like the sounds she was getting out of that.

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Postby Hillgiant » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:00 pm

anyone know how to make any of these

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Postby the shallow stairs » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:46 pm

sick :shock: :shock:
http://www.myspace.com/rejectionprojectmusic

http://www.reverbnation.com/rejectionproject

art holiday and the shallow stairs are rejection project!

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Postby PEPCORE » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:53 pm

Hillgiant wrote:anyone know how to make any of these


Ask the guy who makes them, i asked it yesterday, no reply...

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Postby vank » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:48 am

the Tesla coils that can play midi files are pretty damn cool

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Postby xTxRxAxVxIxSx » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:43 am

Oh wow. Found this:

JazzMutant Lemur. I guess Daft Punk uses these in their live setup (or so I've heard). I would too, if I had $3000 to spare - you can customize the interface to whatever you want - have it control whatever! Pretty crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbzTvEDDWy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EV0ovMzj0 <---this one's sweet. :D

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Postby PEPCORE » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:35 am

xTxRxAxVxIxSx wrote:Oh wow. Found this:

JazzMutant Lemur. I guess Daft Punk uses these in their live setup (or so I've heard). I would too, if I had $3000 to spare - you can customize the interface to whatever you want - have it control whatever! Pretty crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbzTvEDDWy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EV0ovMzj0 <---this one's sweet. :D


That looks like a sweet peace of gear :D, expensive though.

And i think if the dollar gets even lower in cost, your over your head i costs :shock:

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Postby Silent Frog » Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:31 pm

Yeah I was gonna buy a Tenori-On which is similar to those but made by Yamaha. Looks amazing and is a more polished version of the ones above but apparently the others available have better sound/features. Went to see UNKLE the other day (who were shit) and they were using one live, looked pretty cool. Can't really afford £500 though. http://www.tenori-on.co.uk/

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Postby kAbbage » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:26 pm

Check out http://www.controllerism.com/

this is what will finally make it interesting to start using more software... mutation!

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