The Thummer
Video game controllers are compact and efficient little things (although I always find the button-heavy X-box ones a little confusing to use). They’re also the […]
Music
Robot Guitar.
I’m not sure if this takes the fun out of weird intonations and un-well-temperedness, but Gibson is now selling an amazing guitar that Is. A. […]
SONG: Across the Night
SONG: “Across the Night” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Yes, me again. SOURCE: The post “Virtual Mars mission – 500 days […]
Samuel Hoffman plays Big Band… on the Theremin
BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT… Big band theremin. So soothing. So Golden Age of Radio. So heady with nostalgia and ether.
Gnarls Barkley on the Moog Etherwave Theremin.
I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgiving, American readers. From the description of the video on YouTube: The main theremin was passed through iZotope Trash, an […]
Dvorak on the Matryomin.
In America, the Thanksgiving holiday starts today (more or less). To celebrate, The Guild of Scientific Troubadours will be reveling in the gorgeous sounds of […]
SONG: Something in the Air
SONG: “Something in the Air” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Hello there. SOURCE: “Lap dancers ‘in heat’ are the ones to […]
SONG: An Awful Lot of Empty
SONG: “An Awful Lot of Empty” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy responsible for this questionable corner of the […]
SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)
SONG: “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Baboon Birth Control” entry, from “Primates on the Pill”, New […]
Nerdcore soldiers on
Via the MC Hawking blog comes word of the irresistible, meteoric rise of nerdcore, as declared by the New York Times last Sunday: Many nerdcore […]
The Amygdaloids
From Salon comes assurance that we are not alone: All right, the occasion wasn’t a concert but a graduation ceremony for 10,000 students in the […]
SONG: A World Without Us.
SONG: “A World Without Us” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy who put this questionable site up on the […]
Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery
How to make a bowed psaltery. And, in case you’re wondering: What IS a bowed psaltery anyway? Why, it’s something like a cimbalom… or maybe […]