This is a drum loop created from a French audio recording made in 1860.

Bite that, Edison.

Stage 2 of the LED Cube. Every pin is now functional. The cube is mounted on perfboard and housed in a gutted Nintendo GameBoy.

The Arduino wiring.

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have been taking turns giving the music industry the finger. The British band made headlines last October for releasing In Rainbows without the support (read: control) of a record label, and Trent Reznor’s group followed suit with last month’s Ghosts I-IV.

Read the full article at Wired

This is a video of Ableton Live co-founder and electronic musician Robert Henke (Monolake) presenting a workshop in Christchurch, New Zealand. Topics include 64-bit summing and the monodeck.

Here I have an LED “cube” being controlled by MIDI via Arduino. This is a work in progress.

The KORG DS-10 is a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS that combines the superior interface of the Nintendo DS and the design concept of the famous MS-10 synthesizer.

Click here to watch the demo on youtube.