In our eternal quest to make electronic music instruments more expressive, and following in the tradition of the $230k, 40 string abomination, the “StringStation” here is the $7000 Eigenharp Alpha, a cross of what seems to be a string bass / didgeridoo and a monome. This silly looking...

Original ideas are hard, very hard to come by. The creators of the monome were onto something big when they created their groundbreaking hardware controller. Why? because another Monome 64 clone controller for Ableton has been launched, this time coming from Novation. It is called Launchpad, and it is looks...

Any lover of electronic music has heard these comments before.. “yeah, those DJ guys can’t really play any instruments, it is all repetitive machine music, anyone can do that, etc etc etc” I’ve heard this comment many times, coming from rock music fans to professional band managers. A...

From the NYTimes. Record Stores: Out of Sight, Not Obsolete By BEN SISARIO Published: September 29, 2009 It was Wednesday at Downtown 161, and that meant it was Vinylmania day. Most of the time Downtown 161, a record distributor in Lower Manhattan, is off limits to the public. But once a week it becomes an...

Meet Blue Brain, a “brain” made up entirely of silicon and housed inside an IBM supercomputer. An astonishing advance, the artificial brain may be the first step toward manmade higher behavior. via...