Earlier this year British electronic music group Massive Attack revealed it was storing its classic album Mezzanine in DNA. Now it's been announced the DNA will be available in a limited release of spray paint cans, with each spray can estimated to contain around 1 million copies of the album.
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Pipes from the Synesthesia Corporation essentially merges computer hardware and production software for an all-in-one music creation machine that's said to start a whole new music creation product category.
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When we first caught up with BandLab – a cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform – the project was in its infancy. A lot has happened since early 2013, so a catchup is long overdue.
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Teenage Engineering has been working on a stand-alone synthesizer and composer you can fit in your inside pocket for a few years now. The OP-Z has now been officially revealed, and is reported to be the first 16-track sequencer that allows for the live composition of music, visuals and lights.
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A few years back, Dean Miller created the Tele Servo Bender, a modified guitar that used servos to sound like a lap steel. His latest project moves to the low end, with a self-contained, battery powered FM Synth Bass with four voices and six operators. And lots of LEDs.
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Sony has introduced two new additions to its high-end Signature Series. The IER-Z1R earphones sport a hybrid driver setup for the promise of audiophile-grade listening, while the Hi-Res DMP-Z1 digital music player features a gold-plated volume knob and exclusive price tag to match.
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Nathan Webb and Pasquale Totaro want to make music creation accessible to everyone, and have launched the Oddball to do just that. Combining a very familiar object with wireless tech, digital audio and pressure sensors, their project is essentially a beat maker in a bouncy ball.
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Modal Electronics has announced an upcoming portable synthesizer that's based on the voice architecture of its Craftsynth. The Skulpt polyphonic synthesizer rocks 32 oscillators divided between four discrete polyphonic voices, and can run for up to 12 hours on battery power alone.
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The talkbox is a floor stomp with a long tube coming from it. The musician puts the free end of this tube in the mouth and alters the sound by changing the shape of the mouth or position of the tongue. ElectroSpit has made the talkbox mobile and tube-free with the ESX-1.
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Getting your groove going with a modular synth can involve lots of patch cables or a screen full of intimidating controls. Industrial designer Colin Hearon has come up with an interactive, modular synthesis device called Tone Lab where players young or old stack up components to generate sound.
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