Archive for July, 2008

The Octopulse! »

An electronic cephalopod instrument. What more could you ask for!?

“The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesizer to convert into cacophonous noises.”

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Handmade dual-chamber bamboo flute from Avi »

Check out this spectacular dual-chamber flute made by Avi:

This flute, handmade from Chinese yellow bamboo, is based on traditional Native American style flutes but with an upwards pointing resonating chamber extension. This flute has two blow holes, five finger holes, two sound chambers, and two birds. This flute’s voice is paralyzing to say [...]

Bin Zasara - a traditional Japanese odd musical instrument »

A bin zasara (a.k.a. bin sasara, sasara) is a traditional Japanese percussion instrument. Due to the bin zasara’s self-vibrating nature, the instrument is classified as an idiophone. The instrument consists of many rectangular wooden slats, made from tonewood (wood that carries sound waves well e.g. maple, ceder, bamboo, walnut) strung together by some [...]

Q&A with sculptor Bruce Gray »

Bruce Gray has been a full time sculptor since 1989 when he, on a creative whim, moved to Los Angeles, CA and picked up his first blow torch.  Beginning with the “figure it out as you go method,” Bruce has made a name for himself with his humorously giant and pink high-heeled-shoes sculptures, oversized swiss cheese blocks, [...]

iBand, the iPhone musical trio »

iBand is a trio of techie musicians who play two iPhones and an iPod Touch (and occasionally a Nintendo DS).

Garden Instrument Contest Update »

Thank you Abram for your wonderful submission! that makes 2. Remember, all entries will be posted and voted on simultaneously when the contest is over.
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