Tag: ELECTRONICMUSIC

Here at Switched, we love things that make noise. And when it comes to noise-making, few names have a stronger pedigree than Moog. The granddaddy of electronic music has released Filtatron, an iPhone app based around the classic Moog Ladder Filter that gives the company's analogue effects and synths their distinctive sound. You can use the digitally modeled classic filter to manipulate input from ...

With the prevalence of digital music, we've stepped so far away from the physical realm that audio entertainment often seems like an abstraction (Perhaps why so many indie/hipster folk have tried to revive the vinyl LP). In light of that, programmer and artist Tristan Perich decided to bring back the physical -- well, sort of physical -- components of music-making with his "album" '1-bit ...

There are plenty of ways to measure success. Some people think they've made it when they wind up being covered by a 24-hour cable news channel, others are holding out hope to be parodied by Weird Al. Switched? Well we think that we'll have made it when we get a beer named after us. With that as our benchmark for recognition, we'd say that somebody honoring electronic music icon Bob Moog with a ...

Everyone knows that robots and computers, the heartless harbingers of the end of humanity, will play a pivotal role in the inevitable apocalypse. But, before that cataclysmic destruction of hominid life occurs, could computers, programs, and bots actually reinvent the artistic endeavors that are supposedly unique to humans? One California composer, who has spent 30 years creating artificial ...

Recently, a group called Aeolia has been experimenting with stretch-sensing technology and its interaction with the body. As part of that research, Martha Glazzard at Nottingham Trent University knitted conductive yarn into the Cello Shirt, worn in the video below by cellist Peter Gregson. Placed at the shirt's elbows and underarms, the stretching fabric communicates with Max/MSP software that ...

We know that you nerds can't live without documentaries or glitchy electro noise, and, for that matter, neither can we. The New Museum's geeky art blog Rhizome (one of our favorites) will be posting videos and docs about the history of electronic music this entire week, and we are delighted. Rhizome has already published: the Bell Labs audio of the IBM 704 singing "Daisy Bell" (which we ...