This. Is. NUTS. This Rube Goldberg music-making marble machine is the brainchild of Wintergatan, a four-piece “folktronica” band from Sweden. It took 14 months for member Martin Molin to build after he was inspired by a Dutch mechanical instrument museum[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Adult Swim asks: Which lauded early ’80s synthesizer mogul can best score Halley’s Comet? What happens when the comet takes a sudden interest in their harmonics and heads straight towards Earth? From the spot-on 1986 graphics, to the ridiculous names,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News from Washington and Louisiana today — scientists have confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves not only by sight, but by sound. LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), which has detectors in both states, observed a disruption of light waves back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the early ’90s, the crucible of intelligent dance music, IDM forerunner Autechre put a song called “Eggshell” on their 1993 debut album, Incunabula. Those who followed their career knew this was a reworked version of “The Egg,” a song[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve ever had a Fisher Price record player, you might want to dig around in your storage space. One of my Facebook peeps (hi Jenni!) posted a Gizmodo story about a guy who made an Instructable for making your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I’m doing research on cartoon music for the next strip (spoilers!), and I came across an article regarding a piece of music called “Powerhouse,” by Raymond Scott. “Powerhouse” is that mechanical music that comes on in cartoons whenever there’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I wanted to record something last weekend, with the condition that it be a full song and not just vocals. (I bought a keyboard months ago, and I still haven’t used it, dammit.) My choices quickly dwindled to Magnetic Fields’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…