DailyDirt: More Modern Musical Instruments
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Learning to play music takes a lot of time, practice... and oftentimes an expensive musical instrument. Sure, there are some cool toys that aren't too pricey, but maybe technology could help make playing instruments easier and cheaper. Here are a few musical gadgets that might fit the bill.- How can you make playing the guitar even cooler? Add LASERS. Okay, maybe not cooler -- but definitely geekier. [url]
- The Imaginary Marching Band project is going to create some open source musical devices that will simulate a trumpet, trombone, tuba, snare drum, bass drum and cymbals. Sorry, no air guitar. [url]
- The theremin was patented in 1928 and didn't really catch on. But maybe someone will figure out how to re-make a more modern touch-less musical instrument with gesture recognition software and a camera.... [url]
- To discover more interesting tech-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Vocaloid!
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What Do You Mean, The Theremin “Didn’t Really Catch On”?
It was all throughout the music for Forbidden Planet. It was done to death in the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations. Isn’t that enough?
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one of those decades
(And yes, I helped fund this. Apparently the Beach Boys wasn't enough for me.)
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Re: one of those decades
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Desktop theremin
Synaptic Touchpad Theremin. Been playing with mine for years. There's also a drum pad there.
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Re: Desktop theremin
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Using your laptop as an instrument to create music.
http://androidandme.com/2009/04/reviews/musical-brings-multitouch-instruments-to-android/
Using your cellphone as an instrument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Experimental_musical_instruments
List of bizarre instruments.
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/18/robot-band-covers-marilyn-manson/
http://hackaday.co m/2011/07/08/mini-ir-theremin/
http://hackaday.com/2011/06/06/million-volt-guitar-rocks-the-house-f or-science/
More crazy instruments can be found here.
http://hackaday.com/category/musical-hacks/page/1/
That is the cutting edge of modern music production folks LoL
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