big harp thing

Kudos to this here guy for figuring out how to make a drone machine part of your daily life.  If I had spent some brain power trying to create a device like this that was not battery powered, was 3000x bigger, and could blend in nicely in an outdoor mall … I probably would not have come up with anything like this, but that’s cool, I dig it anyway.  It beats wearing headphones around or putting a boom box on your shoulder pumping out classic La Monte Young while you’re hobnobbing and making maxxing+relaxing at your corporate shmorporate thing or trip to Spa Castle or whatever you do with your free times.

Tomoko Sauvage Miyata makes beautiful sounds with water bowls and underwater microphones:

We’ve been nominated by the New England Journal for Aesthetic Research (it sounds important because it is) for a New England Art Award (also quite important) in the category of “Group show featuring local artists“.  Naturally they be talking bouts the 2009 MEGAPOLIS AudioFestation in Cambridge MA USA that went down mere months ago, where magical happenings were the norm and where love was hitting people in da faces from ALL ANGLES!  Why in the name of objects flying through space and striking the sun have we been nominated for such a thing such as this?  Obviously because of YOU, who knows about us through the InterMcNetz and who used laserbeambrainwaves to insert us into this ballot.

So VOTEVOTEVOTE and tell your friends to VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE and tell your Gma to VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE and then we’ll leave you alone for a couple more minutes.  Votes must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, to be counted. so make good things happen before it’s too late and then you have all sorts of regrets …

UPDATE: VOTING HAS CLOSED. THANKS, FRIEND – WE WINNED!

Check this bitch ass loopercontrollerbassoondrummachine. It goes by the alias… the Eigenharp Alpha. Made by Eigenlabs. Basically it’s this high quality future instrument with 120 highly sensitive keys, 12 percussion keys, 2 strip controllers, a breath pipe and numerous pedal inputs. You can record loops, process some beats, flip through different scale patterns, layer sounds, basically whatever you want to do all while playing the damn thing live like a bassoon. I personally think it looks like it belongs in the Tatoonie Cantina Band.

Now, it requires a trusty mac to run with. Meaning your patch bank for the instrument is basically endless. It looks like there are also vendors that sell libraries of samples and sounds for the instrument too.

I can’t see this being worth the price, but it’s a good sign for new instruments to come. I hope this inspires someone down in their dark basement to start working on something great.

Now go getcher sweetie an Eigenharp Alpha. It’ll only set you back 4,000 Euro.

Time to put away those braille erotic novels, boys and girls. In a bid to outdo the Gutenberg Audio Books Project, pornfortheblind.org is a volunteer-driven website aiming to introduce the blind into the magical world of 60-second internet porn video samples.

Via WFMU’s Beward the Blog.

Continuo has a review of a new book about legendary audio artist Max Neuhaus–whose death last year was only overshadowed by Michael Jackson’s.

For those of you reading this who work (or aspire to work) in public radio, you might have heard about the time NPR gave Neuhaus two hours or uninterrupted airtime to play with. Those were the days.

Nate Harrison narrates the story of the Amen Break, which might be the most prolific six-second sound clip in all of recorded history.