Fabricmachine is a sound installation by Kathrin Stumreich.
Two fabric loops, driven by a motor, create a division in space. Light sensors measure the opacity of the textile. The way all pieces are sewed together for a fabric sound track is responsible for beats, breaks and rhythms.
Roger Linn (who designed the LinnDrum way back in the day) demonstrates his new multitouch instrument prototype:
My particular interest is in a new instrument that while capable of entirely new sounds and playing techniques, is also able to reproduce the sounds, virtuosic performance capabilities and subtleties that we’ve come to know and love from traditional musical instruments, but without all their problems and limitations.
Learn more about the LinnStrument at Roger Linn Design
Motherboard.tv profiles University of Toronto professor and inventor Steve Mann.
For this episode, Steve volunteered to be both guest and host, using his human/cyborg first-person perspective to show us his studio, talk about his past inventions, and ask members of the circus to play the latest of his inventions: the hydraulophone, a highly tactile and mellifluous water-based instrument that Steve hopes can offer the blind and deaf a new method of music-creation.
Unidentified Sound Object interviews Peter Chilvers about his generative music collaboration with Brian Eno.
The difficulty developers have faced with generative music to date has been the platform. Generative music typically requires a computer, and it’s just not that enjoyable to sit at a computer and listen to music. The iPhone changed that – it was portable, powerful and designed to play music.
Read the full interview
Peter Chilvers official site.