BLIPTRONIC 5000 LED SYNTHESIZER - In the low-cost times..

If HAL 9000 mated with R2-D2 and their electronic offspring was tutored by Kraftwerk it would probably end up something like the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer.

At once a minimalist musical plaything and a hardcore old-skool synthesizer, the Bliptronic defies categorization as it belts out 8-Bit style style tunes from its grid of glowing buttons.

You'll notice sound similar to a retro Casiotone with an interface not unlike a simplified Yamaha TENORI-ON... if that makes any sense. Either way, once you start touching the keys of the Bliptronic you'll be hooked by it's simple pattern-based approach to music.

Bliptronic Philosophy... in Regards to Music

In the world of the Bliptronic, creating a song revolves around an ever evolving 4-beat pattern. Each row of vertical buttons represents the notes in one octave. Push a button to turn on a note, push the button again to turn off a note. Push multiple buttons in one vertical row to make a chord. The Bliptronic plays whatever you have selected in sequence horizontally across the display. When it reaches the end of the pattern, it repeats. The genius comes as you modify the pattern by turning notes on and off while the pattern is still looping to create evolving electronic melodies

Knobs and Buttons, There are Some

In addition to the grid of glowing LED buttons you'll notice some other controls on the Bliptronic. These allow you to set the tempo (From 60-160 BPM), choose the instrument (From 8 different retro-synth type sounds), adjust the volume and turn looping on or off. A big "play" button at the bottom makes the Bliptronic uh... play. If you hit it again it stops. Yep.

The Bliptronic is a Social Butterfly

One Bliptronic is grand, but more Bliptronics are even grander. An infinite number of Bliptronics can be attached together using the link ports and included cables. When one Bliptronic reaches the end of it's pattern, the next Bliptronic is instantly triggered to start playing. This allows you to make longer songs where each person controls a section of the song. You can even set the tempo and instrument differently on each Bliptronic in the chain to achieve unconventional musical results.

Product Features

• Unusual retro synthesizer is played with a grid of glowing buttons
• Create looping patterns and change them dynamically while playing
• Chain multiple units together and create more complex melodies
• One octave range. 8 notes can be played simultaneously
• 8 different old-skool synth sounding instruments to choose from
• Sounds created using FM waveform synthesis
• Set the BPM (beats per minute) from 60 to 180 in 20 BPM increments
• Built in speaker with headphone jack and line-out jack
• Front panel is constructed from brushed aluminum
• Includes, manual and 2 link cables for connecting additional Bliptronic units
• Requires 4 x AA batteries (not included)

SONIC STATES - State Of Indepen/dance

State of Indepen/Dance is the theme chosen for the 9th edition of Club To Club, which -while registering an ever-increasing success that brought the attendance to more than 20,000 people in the 2008 edition- has furtherly consolidated its quality level and contributed to put it on the map of the most prestigious European festivals dedicated to electronic music and cutting-edge creativity.

The concept of independence -creative and musical- will be central in the programme of Club To Club, Torino's International Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, which will take place from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th November 2009 and will expand even more in the urban area, in extraordinary places such as Teatro Carignano, Mole Antonelliana, Teatro Gobetti, Espace, Lingotto Fiere Padiglione 1, Mirafiori Motor Village, and in clubs like Hiroshima Mon Amour, and at Libertine Supersport in Brussells.

The challenge for Club To Club 09 is to define indipendence by answering the question: whom or what can you be independent from, at the end of the noughties?

Club To Club has created for fun its own currency (tuxel), banknotes (you can see the picture of Karlheinz Stockhausen on the 5 tuxel note, or Arthur Russell on the 99 tuxel one), stamps, passports, its own flag, anthem -exceptionally commissioned to Teho Teardo (who won the 2009 "David di Donatello" award for his soundtrack of Paolo Sorrentino's "Il Divo"), together with promoting the setting-up of an imaginary state -obviously a peaceful one- at Teatro Gobetti, a state called State of Indepen/Dance.

Club To Club takes part as a main feature in "Torino – Piemonte Contemporary Arts", while interacting and planning together with Artissima, Teatro Stabile's Prospettiva 09 (the opening of Club To Club 09 will be exceptionally hosted at Teatro Carignano), Torino 2010 European Youth Capital, Italia 150, Share Festival and View Conference (for the Digital Orbit project), Museo Nazionale del Cinema, CReATE International Conference, PiemonteGroove. Also, after twinning with Berlin (2006), Barcelona (2007) and Rotterdam (2008), this year Club To Club will also be in Brussels, with some innovative productions. Also, thanks to the collaboration of Piedmontese project Wi-Pie, a live video streaming of all involved clubs will be running online and in the clubs themselves.

These are the artists which will take part in Club To Club 09's rich and eclectic programme: Alexander Balanescu (Romania), Blixa Bargeld (Germany), Carl Craig (USA), Chiara Guidi (Italy), Culoe De Song (South Africa), Dj Pierre (USA), Dorian Concept (Austria), Filastine (USA), Francesco Tristano (Luxembourg), Hudson Mohawke (Scotland), Jeff Mills (USA), Joe Goddard degli Hot Chip (England), Jon Hopkins (England), Laurent Garnier (France), Marcel Dettmann (Germany), Martyn (Netherlands), Moritz Von Oswald (Germany), Optimo (Scotland), Pathosformel (Italy), Scanner (England), Seth Troxler (USA), Shed (Germany), Soap&Skin (Austria), Steffi (Germany), Teho Teardo (Italy), The Present (USA), Tim Exile (England), ToDo (Italy) and many artists from the PiemonteGroove community; more artists will be announced in the next few days.

Club To Club will feature international showcases, exclusive projects and partnerships, and in the festival's week it will activate a meeting point at Teatro Gobetti, which will become a temporary art center for projections, sound installations, performances, lectures, especially conceived for the festival on the theme of creative independence.

A Festival preview event, Viva Club To Club, will take place in Milan's IED - Spazio Teatro on 22nd October 2009, organized together with IED and UOVO Festival, and presented by Alfa Romeo MiTo, which is once again this year's festival Main Partner. More "Viva Club To Club" events will happen in Torino, from Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th at Cinema Massimo, La Drogheria (in Piazza Vittorio), Puddhu Bar (Murazzi area) and the San Salvario area.

Club To Club will be the ideal meeting point amongst different art forms, people, cities, places, all looking for the State of Indepen/Dance. The Tuxel and a sly Stockhausen are inviting you to believe and invest in it.

During the event will be presenteda project born from the collaboration between  students in sound design with musician Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) .An experiment designed to create sensations through electronic experimentation. A 'musical environment in which every emotion is transformed into sound and every note becomes a vision in itself. A 'web of insistent beats and ethereal sound carpets likely to create a' single fascinating work.

Club To Club (To) - Sonic States Live Set  by  Giuseppe Albrizio

The workshop is a collaboration between FDI and Milan Club To Club, started in 2007 and is designed to produce performances and soundscapes which will be presented and performed at the event Viva Club To Club on October 22 in Milan (Space Theater, Via Pompeo Leoni 3) and during the Festival Club To Club on 7 November in Turin (Teatro Gobetti, Via Rossini 8). By following the slogan "State of Independent / Dance", the students' work will focus on issues of national identity and cultural met through the production and processing of sounds. 

Club To Club - Sonic States Perfomance - Part 1 from Giuseppe Albrizio on Vimeo.
The workshop is a collaboration between FDI and Milan Club To Club, started in 2007 and is designed to produce performances and soundscapes which will be presented and performed at the event Viva Club To Club on October 22 in Milan (Space Theater, Via Pompeo Leoni 3) and during the Festival Club To Club on 7 November in Turin (Teatro Gobetti, Via Rossini 8). By following the slogan "State of Independent / Dance", the students' work will focus on issues of national identity and cultural met through the production and processing of sounds.

Club To Club - Sonic States Perfomance - Part 2 from Giuseppe Albrizio on Vimeo.
The workshop is a collaboration between FDI and Milan Club To Club, started in 2007 and is designed to produce performances and soundscapes which will be presented and performed at the event Viva Club To Club on October 22 in Milan (Space Theater, Via Pompeo Leoni 3) and during the Festival Club To Club on 7 November in Turin (Teatro Gobetti, Via Rossini 8). By following the slogan "State of Independent / Dance", the students' work will focus on issues of national identity and cultural met through the production and processing of sounds.

MONOME - Control Surface 2.0

Adaptable, minimalist interfaces

three models: two fifty six (16×16), one twenty eight (16×8), and sixty four (8×8).

each is a reconfigurable grid of backlit keypads which connects to a computer. interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the computer. there is no hard-wired functionality.

this new series evolved from the 40h which began as an interface for our own music performance and art practice. we also make available a kit version which allows users to create their own 40h-like devices.

Applications

live sample cutters, math simulations, drum machines, generative controllers, tonal maps, games, visualizations. browse here. we make available all sources to encourage community contribution and enthusiasm. we share and thrive.

Design

• new custom silicone rubber keypads
• bright orange backlighting
• clear anodized aluminum top plate, no visible screws
• hand-crafted black walnut enclosure
• black rubber bottom lining for non-slip

Pricing

• two fifty six: $1400
• one twenty eight: $800
• sixty four: $500

Monome is a small Catskills-based hardware company that makes controllers for electronic music performance and new media art. Their first product, the 40h, is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using a USB cable and the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally developed as an open ended performance interface for electronic music, its developers have said "The wonderful thing about this device is that it doesn't do anything really". As a result, developers have begun to use the Monome as an interface for other types of software, from text displays to games.

The word "Monome" is also often used as a name for the various devices that Monome produces.

tehn with two fifty six from tehn on Vimeo.

Monome as a company is committed to a minimalist philosophy both with regards to design on the one hand, and economic and ecological production principles on the other.

Monome's minimalist design philosophy manifests in its production of interface devices that avoid complexity in order to promote greater possible versatility (see Functionality, below). Monome places emphasis on greater accessibility through minimal design, in order to increase the adaptability of the device in terms of software implementation. The name "Monome" itself derives from the mathematical term monomial, a gesture to the concept of many variables made possible through something that is nevertheless singular or simple in nature.

Monome's production approach emphasizes local and sustainable economies. For example, the materials and services involved in the production of their devices are domestic and often found regionally, enabling relationships with those involved in the production. In terms of sustainability, for example, all packaging is recyclable. Furthermore, Monome's open source policy uses distributed development for the software used by its devices.

An active user community maintains Monome documentation and implementation of the devices through open source software applications.

[Installation] Living Picture from bart on Vimeo.

"Living Pictures" is an interactive installation. It allow you to control the drawings of Alexandra Petracchi and play with sounds and pictures.

Draws: Alexanda Petracchi - faitetrit.com

Sound design: Charles Dubois

Animation: Volt'air aka Bart & Anome

Using:

Modul8 + Monomal "Vernissage" Module + Monome 40h

Download the Monomal Module from the online library of Modul8. Monomal Module has been written by Iduun.

MORE INFO AT faitetrit.com AND iduun.com/blog/2008/12/17/tableaux-vivants/

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KARLHEINZ STOCKAHAUSEN - What "Cosmic Pulses"© is

From "Cosmic Pulses":

In KLANG (SOUND), The 24 Hours of the Day, the 13th Hour is entitled COSMIC PULSES

(Electronic Music).

24 melodic loops, each of which has a different number of pitches between 1 and 24, rotate in

24 tempi between 240 and 1.17 rotations per minute in 24 registers within a range of circa 7 octaves.

They are successively layered on top of each other from low to high and from the slowest to the fastest

tempo and end one after another in the same order.

The loops were enlivened by manual regulation of the accelerandi and ritardandi around the respective

tempo, and by quite narrow glissandi upwards and downwards around the original melodies. This

was carried out by Kathinka Pasveer according to the score (see the form scheme).

What is completely new for me is the new kind of spatialisation: each section of each of the

24 layers has its own spatial motion between 8 loudspeakers, which means that I had to compose

241 different trajectories in space. That sounds very technical – and it is.

For the first time, I have tried out superimposing 24 layers of sound, as if I had to compose the orbits

of 24 moons or 24 planets (for example, the planet Saturn has 48 moons).

For making this possible, I am grateful to Joachim Haas and Gregorio Karman, collaborators in the

Experimental Studio for Acoustic Art in Freiburg.

The loops and the synchronisation were realised by my collaborator Antonio Pérez Abellán.

If it is possible to hear everything, I do not yet know. In any case, the experiment is extremely

fascinating!

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SONY ROLL - How to play with the music

The Sony Rolly SEP-10BT is a Sound Entertainment Player. It is a combination of a little robot, a little Mp3 player and a little boombox. It plays MP3, ATRAC, or AAC tunes via Bluetooth with A2DP / AVRCP or the 1GB internal memory. Rolly is gonna dance to your music and you can also choreograph it and share your Rolly moves with friends via internet. It has battery life of five hours straight music, four hours of dance and music, or three and a half hours dancing, music, and Bluetooth use together. The Sony Rolly SEP-10BT will be available on the September 29 for ¥40,000 (approx $350) in Japan.

Sound effects demonstration

Rolly™ analyses your favourite music and responds with funky moves - twisting, spinning and flashing his lights to the sound of the beat

The integrated digital amplifier and soft dome speakers give you high quality sound too

Built-in Bluetooth® so you can stream music directly from other enabled devices like PC's, mobiles and Hi Fi systems

Innovative navigation, a twist to choose a track, a shake to shuffle or a turn to change the volume.

Use the bundled software to create your own easy to design dance sequences, then share them online and download your favourite.

Two LED lights give you up to 700 colour options you can add to your dance moves

Sony Roll - 3D Render

Sony rolly dancing

Sony Rolly: Dancing - Foo Fighters from Blogeek on Vimeo.

http://www.blogeek.ch

SOUND & LIGHT - Interactions for the consumers future

Wake up naturally

The Wake-up Light wakes you up in a natural way, using light that increases gradually. From now on, waking up will be a pleasant experience. It makes use of an energy-saving lamp and the design in the shape of a lamp suits every bedroom.

Gradual light positively affects energy hormones

Light gradually increases over 30 minutes before your set wake up time. Light falls on your eyes and positively affects your energy hormones, preparing your body to wake up. This makes waking up a more pleasant feeling.

Up to 300 Lux for natural awakening

The sensitivity to light differs a lot per person. In general, when using a higher light intensity a person needs less time to become fully awake. The light intensity of the Wake-up Light can be set up to 300 Lux. This makes sure you can wake up to the light intensity that suits your personal preference best.

Choice of 4 natural and pleasant wake-up sounds

At your set wake-up time, you will start hearing a natural sound or the selected radio station. It starts out quietly and takes a minute and a half to reach the volume level you selected. There are four sounds you can choose from: morning birds in the forest, a relaxing beep, the sounds of the African jungle or soft chimes in the wind. The gradually increasing sound will make the waking up process even more pleasant, ensuring you are never rudely awakened.

The speaker in this Wake-up Light is backed up by an integrated sound box, assuring great sound quality when listing to the FM radio or when waking up with the natural wake-up sounds.

Energy-saving lamp

Wake-up Light is the only dawn simulator that makes use of an energy-saving lamp. It consumes up to 24% less energy compared to a Wake-up Light with a normal light bulb.

Review: Philips Wake-up Light from Blogeek on Vimeo.

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