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The Resonant Garden is an acoustic-electronic hybrid designed to create anything from beats and oddities to dense sound scapes. From its inception in 2006, the original garden has gone through many changes and refinements; micro garden, luminist garden and illuminist garden and finally this latest and likely final version.

The garden essentially utilizes three Alter circuits but each equipped with a mic pre-amp, and 4 garden (stringed) panels for generating acoustics. By plucking, rubbing, tapping or even bowing, those micro-acoustic sounds become amplified and effected by the Alter in any number of ways. In essence, the garden is a large microphone designed to pick up vibrations.

Piece by Arius Blaze,

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Exploring the #Architecture of #sound

<<The ethereal and pulsating live audiovisual performance that explores the architecture of sound, light, and space by utilizing music and  kinetic visuals orchestrated and performed within a quadraphonic surround sound environment.>>

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Weather controlled instrument? The James Boag Meterorphonium, a groundbreaking instrument that transforms live environmental and meteorological readings into a stunning musical symphony, which was designed by Nick

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Thought-controlled music???

How to control a modular synth with your thoughts!

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Jacques Stompboxes - The Healing Booster

“newly designed J201 driver with strengh control that extends both sides of the frequencies range”

cred: facebook.com/Jacques Charbit

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THE HALLUCINOGEN MACHINE:

Dark echo ambient drone touch synthesizer. A bespoke sound generator capable of ethereal washes, haunting ambience, choral stabs, tranquil tones, shifting drones and warm echo cascades.8 node touch points provide a one octave scale.

Piece by Resonance Circuits

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#Cloud #Distortion

You can use this analog distortion for free for half an hour each day. I highly recommend trying it, no need to register new account and all that annoying stuff. Upload a wav file of your choice, book a session and try it out through your internet browser.

‘’The Distopik Audio Destruction Unit is based upon the famous REDD-47 tube microphone preamplifier circuit but sports Carnhill input and output transformers (Neve anyone?) and packs both REDD's "in your face" high mids and a hint of that British signature weight in the low-mids. ‘’

Distopik started looking for ways to remotely control analog gear 7 years ago. They tried everything from digipots, VCAs, optoFETs, FETs, MDACs and SSRs. Currently, they use carefully selected microrelays that provide the most transparent control.

Website: https://mixanalog.com/

Youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeStxTbY_8k (useful to get you started)

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#AI #MachineLearning

Pushing the boundaries of art and technology

‘’Machine Hallucination, Anadol’s first large-scale installation in New York City is a mixed reality experiment deploying machine learning algorithms on a dataset of over 300 million images—representing a wide-ranging selection of architectural styles and movements—to reveal the hidden connections between these moments in architectural history. ‘‘

https://www.artechouse.com/

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Koka’s Beat Machine No. 5 , electromechanical musical instrument

Creator

https://vimeo.com/user22916064

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#optical #germanium #tremolo #steampunk style https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGaZbJnscj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u2dqk0evgs68

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Handmade germanium fuzz overdrive guitar pedal

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Genesis 1 synthesizer is a custom built futuristic workstation running ableton live and featuring 2 touch screens (+VIDEO) owned by @2BTruman

It is a mac mini running a custom built HTL5 interface

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Ya2jCnFSs

https://www.facebook.com/btrumanofficial

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erected tube pedal

cred: images.vice.com

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Circuit Bent Yamaha RX-17 Drum Machine 

Drum Machine will function as normal when all 7x switches are in the off position, but when on you will find ring-modded/vocoded sounds, pitch related effects, bizarre filters, odd synthesis, rhythmic drum varations and much more!! Use switches individually or in combination. Designed so as not to crash so you can really go to town and find some mind blowing rhythms and tones.

Piece by CBMods

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Modifications:

1/4" Audio output jack with volume knob • Internal speaker on/off • 2x variable noise/bass tone generators • Variable lead distortion knob • Optic theremin to control lead distortion • High pass/wah/squeaky mod on/off • Two body contacts to create loud squealing feedback and distortion, also able to pickup radio interference using human body as antenna • Coarse pitch adjustment with on/off latching button • 'Crazy child' switch - chaotically triggers notes within a specific key • 7x switches for sending various distortions to dedicated rhythm and accompaniment sounds

LFO containing: On/Off, Knobs for Rate, Shape (Triangle to Square), and Depth, ability to send to either pitch or distortion.

Piece by George Gleixner

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                                                   ‘’The Unicorn’’

Another Circuit Bent Casio MT-55 by George Gleixner

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Moog Circuit Bending Challenge 2016 (the Winner)

Vola V-System is a video game inspired sequencer with sound cartridges made from toys. The actual bends are simple but the concept makes this machine really flexible in my opinion. It can be a beat machine, "sampler" or toyinstrument. It all depends on what cartridge you use.

Built by Vola Noisy Stuff