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LinnStrument – Musical Instrument Concept by Roger LinnMay 21, 2010
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
Bassline Baseline Roland TB-303 DocumentaryMay 17, 2010
Bassline Baseline is a short documentary about the development and impact of the Roland TB-303 by Nate Harrison.
The production values are weak, the narration sounds a bit like a speech synthesizer and there are some mistakes (the TB-303 didn’t have a sine oscillator, it had a pseudo-square wave created by modifying a sawtooth), but the history makes it worth watching.
Today we have computer software, consisting of representations of a three-dimensional interface on a two-dimensional screen, being controlled by third-party software so as to emulate the sound of a machine built twenty years ago, which was itself built to emulate the sound of a machine built 30 years before it.
What The Future Sounded LikeMay 14, 2010
What The Future Sounded Like profiles Electronic Music Studios, creators of the legendary EMS VCS3 synthesizer.
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Sound Builders: Steve MannMay 12, 2010
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.