Mar 25
As the on-demand music streaming industry grows and competition with it (rumors that Apple may be among that competition surfaced last week), Spotify is looking to draw in a larger … Continue reading
Mar 23
The video for electronic music act Booka Shade’s new single "Crossing Borders" is a mind-bending collage of imagery. It looks polished and glossy, a bit like the song. But the behind-the-scenes video from the production company and drone operators shows just how hard making something that polished can be.
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Mar 23
Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov aka "vtol" has built a robotic system to read a tattoo on his arm like a musical score. The sounds this thing makes are pretty gnarly.
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Mar 22
One of the reasons why we were so excited about the “Star Trek Into Darkness” movie was the fact that it was being made with the Dolby Atmos technology. Now … Continue reading
Mar 21
This past October, it was revealed Twitter would be nixing its #Music app after a handful of months, word that surfaced by way of sources citing low popularity. Such rumors … Continue reading
Mar 21
Sources have surfaced speaking of new Apple music ambitions, with the company reportedly contemplating launching an on-demand music streaming service that will directly compete with Spotify and other similar on-demand … Continue reading
Mar 21
It’s hard to get excited over something as antiquated as a music box when the when the phone in your pocket can play back a symphony. But there’s still something oddly appealing about this twelve-track sequencer that skips the digital samples for a row of random music boxes.
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Mar 20
The very talented musician Imogen Heap and her colleagues at Mi.Mu are working on a glove that will allow you to make music by moving your fingers and hands. Think Minority Report, but instead of flipping screens around your movements create sounds. Air drumming is about to be legit.
Mi.Mu has an input and output board called x-OSC that connects the glove to a computer or multiple computers over Wi-Fi. It also has an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a magnetometer. Along with the flex sensors on the glove itself, the system can detect “the orientation of your hand, the “flex” of your fingers, your current hand posture (e.g. fist, open hand, one finger point), the direction (up, down, left, right, forwards, backwards) of your hand [and] sharp movements such as drum hits.”
You can map one or more of these movements to control music software with the help of Mi.Mu’s own application, which converts your movements to OSC or MIDI. This means you can use the glove with any software that can handle those two files. The video below shows Imogen performing (!) a song using only two Mi.Mu gloves to control the music:
As you may have noticed, the glove allows the wearer to activate multiple tweaks or sounds at once. You can also use gestures to switch between your saved mappings, which should reduce the number of movements you have to memorize for a given performance.
Pledge at least £1,200 (~$2,000 USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Mi.Mu glove as a reward. Hopefully in a few years the glove will be affordable enough, so we can wash away all the hate and society can start advancing.
[via Gadgetify]
Mar 20
This is what 80′s rockers would have looked like if they were robots. This robotic band goes by the name Z-MACHINES. It sounds like a human band if you close your eyes, but if they are open you know that they are robots, ready to kill us after the show.
The bot called March bangs multi-colored cables in time to the music. Behind him, the drummer Ashura has 22 arms and is playing four times faster than a human. Cosmo is the keyboardist with green lasers hitting each key. The guitarist has 78 fingers, and can shred way faster than you can:
This robo-band was created by engineers at the University of Tokyo and uses around 300 kilowatts of electricity. They are a big hit in Japan since they made their stage debut at a “Future Party” in Tokyo last year.
It’s all fun and games until no one returns from their concerts.
[via CNN and The Awesomer]
Mar 19
Pandora has announced that its One subscription plan, which provides an ad-free version of the strea
Posted in: Today's ChiliPandora has announced that its One subscription plan, which provides an ad-free version of the streaming service, will jump in price to $5 for new users, and its annual subscription option will be scrapped. Existing users will continue to pay $4. (For now.)
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