http://bill.thomlex.com/taxonomy/term/39/0 en http://bill.thomlex.com/node/73 <p> <img class="imgright" src="http://www.mini-minty.com/images/minty_red.jpg" alt="" /> Build your own MP3 player that fits inside an Altoids gum tin. Charges its internal battery over USB and mounts itself as a drive, runs for 12+ hours on a full charge and looks very cool. Full instructions here, including schematic (they&#39;ll post source code soon), or they can build it for you.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mini-minty.com/">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/73#comment Music Technology Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:11:00 -0400 bill 73 at http://bill.thomlex.com http://bill.thomlex.com/node/103 <p> <img class="imgright" src="http://www.ejamming.net/2.0/_images/stage_large.jpg" alt="" /> Connect your midi instrument to your computer and jam with musicians around the world. I built a similar technology almost 20 years ago so a friend and I could jam together through a 1200 baud modem connection. Unfortunately, there was enough delay that it wasn&#39;t much more than an interesting curiosity.</p> <p> This site charges to jam with others, but as the mechanics are very simple, if it becomes popular, I wouldn&#39;t be surprised to see open-source versions pop up quickly.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ejamming.com/">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/103#comment Music Technology Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:22:00 -0500 bill 103 at http://bill.thomlex.com http://bill.thomlex.com/node/107 <p><img class="imgright" src="http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/gfx/logo_small.gif" alt="" /> Sven König wrote software that will take a piece of music/video and automatically divide it into 16th beat samples. It will then listen to another sound-source (such as your voice), and find the best match for each sample of your voice in the original group of samples. It does this real-time, and interesting performance art can be generated with it.</p> <p>To be honest, I&#39;m not thoroughly impressed with the actual songs/videos it produces, but it&#39;s a great concept and the raw technology can no doubt be be improved and used by other technologists and artists to interesting effect. The site is a bit daunting. You may want to check out this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRlhKaxcKpA">video</a> for a quicker understanding.</p> <p><a href="http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/107#comment Music Technology Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:41:00 -0500 bill 107 at http://bill.thomlex.com http://bill.thomlex.com/node/121 <p> <img class="imgright" src="http://mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloopen.jpg" alt="" /> Mike Walters built his own Mellotron from a set of old Walkmans. The Melotron , invented in the early 60s, was the original sampler, playing one tape loop for each key pressed.</p> <p><a href="http://mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloman.html">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/121#comment Music Technology Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:06:00 -0500 bill 121 at http://bill.thomlex.com http://bill.thomlex.com/node/172 <p> <img class="imgleft" src="http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/applications/multimedia/sound/winnt40.png" alt="" /> A musical composition built entirely inside the Windows Sound Recorder tool, using stock sounds from Windows (dings, chimes, etc.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.cothrun.com/gallery/albums/Misc/windows_mix.swf">Link</a></p> http://bill.thomlex.com/node/172#comment Music Sat, 04 Mar 2006 20:09:00 -0500 bill 172 at http://bill.thomlex.com