Tag: ELECTRONIC MUSIC

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 ...

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 ...