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The Secret History of the Vocoder

Interessante Kurz-Doku vom New Yorker über die Geschichte des Vocoders.

The transhuman sounds of the vocoder are familiar to anyone who’s listened to chart-topping albums from the likes of Daft Punk, Coldplay, The Beastie Boys and Kanye West. But before the speech synthesis technology reached a wide public, it had already lived three full lives: first, as an experimental technology created to cut the cost of transcontinental phone calls, then as an encrypted communication system of the US military during the Second World War and Vietnam, and then as a re-purposed instrument used by influential counterculture musicians such as Laurie Anderson, Afrika Bambaataa and Kraftwerk.
With interviews from military, communication and music experts, The Secret History of the Vocoder traces the technology through the course of the 20th century, from its birth at Bell Labs in 1928, to its transformation into an instrument with a distinctive sound that exists in the grey area between human and machine.

(Direktlink, via EOMS)

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Ein 360° Schlagzeug: Yamahas Raijin

Yamaha-s-360Degree-Spherical-Drum-Kit

Wohl mehr PR Gag als tatsächlich praktikables Instrument, aber wer mag, kann damit halt in einer Kugel trommeln.

This design seeks to create an ideal form that will allow human beings to go beyond existing methods to express themselves. The design resembles a globe and allows performers to let their imaginations run wild on an assortment of different kinds of drums. Energy erupts centered on the performer and creates an increasingly visually dynamic world of sound.


(Direktlink, via Like Cool)

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Eine Jacke als Midi-Controller

Ein Midi-Controller zum Überziehen, entwickelt von Ylenia Gortana. Fehlen nur noch die Potis zum Schrauben. Vielleicht könnte man dafür noch so was wie Manschetten in Betracht ziehen. Für ein ganz neues Live-Erlebnis auf und vor der Bühne.

The whole jacket is built with different layers of conductive e-textiles, which are arranged in a matrix of 52 handmade, square push sensors. The layers are basically a copperthread layer and a silverthread layer which are seperated through a velostatic foil which gives the sensors the ability to not only have an on/of position but also a whole range of signals to read in. The sensors are connected with a lasercutted copperfabric circuit on the lowest layer of the jacket. The circuit ends in two Arduino Lilypad boards which are connected to a bluetooth signal board which in turn communicates with the computer. The bluetooth board (Bluesmirf) sends the analoge data via firmata code through Arduino to the Pd programm where the data gets converted in Midi Signals.

(Direktlink, via Martin)

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