This has to be about as cool as gaming music can get - the KORG DS-10 for the Nintendo DS

Features:
Dual dual synths: Two patchable virtual synths, with two oscillators each
Drum machine: Four-part drum machines loaded with samples of the virtual synth
Sequencer: 2 synth tracks, 4 drum machine tracks, 16 steps
Effects: Delay, chorus, flanger
Input methods: Touch-control screen with real-time sound control, a keyboard screen, and matrix screen

CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from ALEX on Vimeo.

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This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970's Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla's 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles' mixing board.

All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using the Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.

This film is free to distribute, share, blog, vlog, etc. When re-posting, please copy and paste this text to inform anyone about the film. Also.. please 'bling out' the embed size to 640x360.

At this time the film is only available online. While you can stream it in HD, it is best viewed on DVD.
Please contact the filmmaker for hard copies if interested.

Alex can be reached at alextyson (at) gmail dot com

Thanks to LensBabies for making this awesome lens!

I am performing and talking at the Creative Minds workshop and concert at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre this Friday, April 18. There is an electroacoustic workshop in the morning, 10-12, and a FREE concert 1-2PM. The concert contains works by myself, Michael Atherton, Roger Dean and Hazel Smith and others

For more details on the festival see Aurora Festival: Workshops and Forums

My new work is for concert flute and live electronic processing, based on Japanese Gagaku, utilising the scales and cordal structures commonly used buy the Sho in this kind of music. The processing creates sound clouds of differing pitches - take a listen to the piece here:

 

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I have been working with dancer Hellen Sky for the last year on an interactive dance project called Darker Edge of Night which is using bio-sensing to explore the relationship between gesture, body and form in a dance work.

This approach is seeking to dig deeply into questions about interactivity - what is it really? - non-linear story telling, and ways of expressing nuances of performance within a work that has a number of agreed themes and content.

We are using the Infusion Systems wi-microDig wireless transmitter to send data from -

Two 2D accelerometers - one on the shoulder and one on the hand, and a
Bio-Flex sensor for measures EMG activity in the right fore arm and a
BioWave sensor to measure EEG (brainwaves), EOG (eye movements) and facial EMG (muscle movements).

These signals are all being collected and scaled in MAX and sent via OSC to a Capybara/Kyma system for realtime synthesis.

We presented concepts from the work intermingled with short performance excerpts at the Australian Performing Arts Market at the Adelaide Festival in February 2008 and you can see a video of some of that HERE