Christian Bannister Unleashes The SubCycle Multitouch Instrument
Christian Bannister, a musician, designer and developer located in Portland, Oregon, turned us on to his Subcycle multitouch instrument. Here’s how he describes the Subcycle in his own words: This is part of a series of sketches exploring the potential to bridge the gap between sound visualization and musical instrument. With multi-touch interaction it is possible to manipulate multiple characteristics of a sound—visually, and...
Calvin Harris Premiers The Borat Humanthesizer
This lunacy seems like something that Sasha Baron Cohen would dream up, but apparently Calvin Harris has decided to rig up a bevy of bikini clad women with some sort of conductive paint to perform a version of his mediocre new single “Ready For The Weekend” (Got My Ass-less Chaps On)” on a unique human synthesizer that he’s dubbed, a Humanthesizer. The synth part is really Ableton Live with MaxDSP doing the...