In Electronics Age, Crafting Great Acoustic Instruments

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Crafting hipsters unite

Crafting hipsters unite 11/19/2003 02:16 PM
At Craftster (a community for crafting hipsters), the motto is, "No tea cozies without irony." Get in touch with your kitsch-fetish and your urbanity, all at once. Link (Thanks, Leah!)

Crafting PHP: DevShed on Software
Development

Crafting PHP: DevShed on Software
Development 09/13/2002 08:29 AM

Top February electronics sites:
BestBuy.com, eBay Electronics,

Top February electronics sites:
BestBuy.com, eBay Electronics, 03/31/2005 11:25 PM
ZDNet Apr 1 2005 3:39AM GMT

Acoustic location

Acoustic location 04/17/2005 07:21 PM

Another from memepool:

Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective.

Acoustic cryptanalysis.

Acoustic cryptanalysis. 05/08/2004 03:55 PM
Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer: Acoustic cryptanalysis. And I thought I was the only one who could hear the capacitors in my computer and TV.

Acoustic Radar.

Acoustic Radar. 04/19/2005 04:29 AM
The bizarre legacy of the sound collectors .. huge steerable ear trumpets .. draagbare variant .. These pictures .. Acoustic Radar .. aircraft

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Typhoon Acoustic 2.1 Basic

Typhoon Acoustic 2.1 Basic 03/23/2005 01:29 PM
TechTree Mar 23 2005 4:56PM GMT

Philips Acoustic Fusion A3.610

Philips Acoustic Fusion A3.610 10/31/2003 04:09 PM
vnunet.com Oct 31 2003 3:36PM ET

Keeping Your Customer in Mind: 6 Steps
to Crafting Your Customer’s
Experience

Keeping Your Customer in Mind: 6 Steps
to Crafting Your Customer’s
Experience 08/22/2004 04:23 AM
{Distance Learning} Have your customer service complaints increased? Do you have a plan in place for dealing with customer service? Well help is here! Based on the eBook, "Keep Your Customer in Mind", Kim Beasley will instruct a distant learning class that helps you customize the customer service plan for your business. Registration ongoing until September 5 and class starts September 7. [PRWEB Aug 22, 2004]

Electronics for Bargain -
http://electronics-for-bargain.com/
announced new product catalog version
“A”.

Electronics for Bargain -
http://electronics-for-bargain.com/
announced new product catalog version
“A”. 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
[PRWEB May 29, 2004]

Acoustic Energy Aego 2 speakers

Acoustic Energy Aego 2 speakers 12/23/2003 09:32 AM
vnunet.com Dec 23 2003 8:58AM ET

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers 06/30/2004 09:23 AM

Although calling it "underwater SMS" might be a little misleading, the underwater diving computers recently purchased by the Australian Navy from Nautronix sound extremely useful -- and use sound to communicate. The Windows-based PCs use both GPS and sonar to track the position of the divers and underwater object, and can beam messages from one machine to another via acoustically powered network, not unlike a telephone modem. The manufacturer has a wide array of products designed to facilitate communication wireless underwater, where radio waves are often soaked up and diffused by the water.
Read - Underwater SMS for Navy divers [TheAustralian via Panbo]

Can a computer judge acoustic quality?

Can a computer judge acoustic quality? 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
News Wales May 13 2004 12:08PM GMT

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

"killer flash movie to radiohead's
acoustic version of creep"

"killer flash movie to radiohead's
acoustic version of creep" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

RNC-NYC: reports that NYPD is using
long-range acoustic device on protesters
right now

RNC-NYC: reports that NYPD is using
long-range acoustic device on protesters
right now 09/02/2004 07:26 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Kevin Slavin says,

"Things are getting a little heavy about 10 blocks from here -- police are reported (widely) to have shown up at a large demonstration manning an LRAD. What's an LRAD? Long-range acoustic device. Military non-lethal technology being tested in Baghdad and Fallujah, and it looks like, right now: NYC.

First two links off Google: one, two .

This is heavy and damaging stuff, that leaves no marks when used on humans. Latest text reports say it's been turned on, pointing west, volume low. You can hear live coverage from Union Square by calling 212 400 7458, option 4.

RNC-NYC: reported presence of long-range
acoustic device (LRAD) at protests

RNC-NYC: reported presence of long-range
acoustic device (LRAD) at protests 09/03/2004 12:45 AM

The NYC police are reported to have a weapon-like acoustic device called an LRAD at the RNC protests.

Here is a pict ure from Indymedia.

August 30 AP Story

Earlier this month, the New York Police Department showed off a machine called the Long Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of blasting at an earsplitting 150 decibels -- as loud as a firecracker, a jet engine taking off or artillery fire at 500 feet, according to the Noise Center at the League for the Hard of Hearing. The NYPD said it would use the machine to direct crowds to safety if there's a terrorist attack or remind protesters where they're allowed to march. Police said they wouldn't use the earsplitting screeching noise feature at the convention. "It's only to communicate in large crowds," Inspector Thomas Graham of the police department's crowd control unit said.

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RNC-NYC: reported presence of
long-range acoustic device (LRAD) at
protest right now

RNC-NYC: reported presence of
long-range acoustic device (LRAD) at
protest right now 09/02/2004 09:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Kevin Slavin says,

"Things are getting a little heavy about 10 blocks from here -- police are reported (widely) to have shown up at a large demonstration manning an LRAD. What's an LRAD? Long-range acoustic device. Military non-lethal technology being tested in Baghdad and Fallujah, and it looks like, right now: NYC.

First two links off Google: one, two .

This is heavy and damaging stuff, that leaves no marks when used on humans. Latest text reports say it's been turned on, pointing west, volume low. You can hear live coverage from Union Square by calling 212 400 7458, option 4.

Update: As he walks towards the protest site in question, Slavin text-messages BoingBoing from his mobile phone:

"Here are updates via indymedia now-- they are discussing the LRAD -- it's a lot of people saying it, but I still can't confirm."

[Ed. note: following is an abridged excerpt of the first-person accounts now being posted on the indymedia site, shown in reverse chronological order. ]

08:20 PM: There is an additonal small contingent of protesters rallying at 34th and 7th. Large # of police. The group is planning to march to the ANSWER rally.
08:13 PM: There is a carnival atmosphere in Union Sq. Lots of art for sale, and a great presence by Iraq Vets. against the war.Several thousand at least. Caller feels that the police presence is heavy but par for the course in NYC at this point.
08:01 PM: The Protest Warriors are being put in their own pen. It is expected that the two pens will scream at each other for a while.
07:51 PM Officer has powered on the LRAD (sound weapon) device, pointing it west. volume is at minimum. It has not been deployed yet.
07:41 PM: Police have penned the south side of Union Sq.
07:30 PM: 1500 people now in Union Sq. Large police presence but fairly chill so far. Bike police on all corners. As it gets dark the crowd seems to be getting more excited and larger, still fesitve atmosphere.
07:12 PM: There are 100-200 people at 29th St. and 8th Ave in the ANSWER pen. There are several hundred people in Union Sq. Reports of law enforcement with semi-automatic weapons at 34th St. and 7th Ave.
06:42 PM:Receiving reports that an LRAD (sound weapon) is present at north side of Union Square.

Link to update transcript from indymedia, and Link to a related page on their website with background on the device -- said to weigh only 45 pounds, and shown in the AP file photo here.

Snip from Brian Braiker's July 12 Newsweek article (Link):

In February the Marines signed a $1.1 million contract for the devices; the I Marine Expeditionary Force took them to Fallujah and the Navy's Fifth Fleet has them in the Persian Gulf. (McSweeney didn't know if they'd been used.) Miami, Los Angeles, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Department of Homeland Security are considering purchases. With protestors coming to New York and Boston for the conventions, might we see the first domestic use this summer? Gruenler hints: "All I can say is there are cities you would recognize."

And, this from an August 30 AP story from Ellen Simon (Link):

Earlier this month, the New York Police Department showed off a machine called the Long Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of blasting at an earsplitting 150 decibels -- as loud as a firecracker, a jet engine taking off or artillery fire at 500 feet, according to the Noise Center at the League for the Hard of Hearing. The NYPD said it would use the machine to direct crowds to safety if there's a terrorist attack or remind protesters where they're allowed to march. Police said they wouldn't use the earsplitting screeching noise feature at the convention. "It's only to communicate in large crowds," Inspector Thomas Graham of the police department's crowd control unit said.

Update 2: Image from indymedia said to be snapshot from site of protest taking place right now; the LRAD device is shown mounted atop police car. Link to full-size image shown in thumbnail at left. Also, see this August 25 CBS report on NYPD's plans to use LRAD at RNC: Link

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

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"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone Certified by Trio Systems for
use with its SoniClear recording
software

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone Certified by Trio Systems for
use with its SoniClear recording
software 06/15/2004 03:32 AM
When recording in noisy environments, background noise from video projectors, air conditioning, and traffic can obscure softer voices and people speaking far from the microphone. This can make it difficult to hear exactly what was said. Using the Voice Tracker with SoniClear MeetingPro solves this problem, resulting in improved recordings and easy transcription of detailed minutes. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]

Woman’s and Children’s Hospital Installs
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker™ Array
Microphones for Handsfree Recording in
Pathology Cut-Up Room

Woman’s and Children’s Hospital Installs
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker™ Array
Microphones for Handsfree Recording in
Pathology Cut-Up Room 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
Women’s and Children’s Hospital needed a recording solution for its pathology cutup room that was hands-free and could pickup the doctors from several feet away. They chose the Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker™ array microphone and Lexacom Talk & Type digital dictation management software. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone enables Clallam County to
record public Commissioner Meetings and
work sessions

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone enables Clallam County to
record public Commissioner Meetings and
work sessions 09/17/2004 02:13 AM
Public meetings are often recorded to assure accurate and complete minutes. This presents a challenge to microphone technology, since many of the meetings are held in large, reverberant rooms, where it is difficult to pick up discussion around a table and questions from the audience.Clallam County has met this challenge through the use of the Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone combined with SoniClearŇ digital recording software from Trio Systems. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product. 07/26/2004 02:14 AM
David Hostetler, with a Master’s degree in Marketing, has been a successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Ergonomics by Design Ltd. Combines
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Trackertm Array
Microphone With Sony Handheld Recorders
as a Portable Meeting Recording Tool

Ergonomics by Design Ltd. Combines
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Trackertm Array
Microphone With Sony Handheld Recorders
as a Portable Meeting Recording Tool 03/17/2005 03:37 AM
Ergonomics by Design, Ltd. often uses Sony digital recorders to record meetings and interviews in varying conference rooms without very much notice as to when the discussions would start.The Voice Tracker™, used as an auxiliary microphone through the 3.5 mm jack on the handheld digital recorder, provided an ideal solution for this application due to its light weight, its portability and its immense recording range. [PRWEB Mar 15, 2005]

Build your own instruments!

Build your own instruments! 09/27/2004 12:28 AM
How to build your own violin, in 45 pictures. Or for guitarists: build your own hollow-b ody, solid-bo dy electric, or ste el guitar. For the budget-minded, PVC flutes. How about bagpipes? No? Surely you cannot resist the tribal sounds of the home-built didgeridoo? Other eclectic (and not so eclectic) home-built instruments.

Native Instruments Pro-53 now available
for OS X

Native Instruments Pro-53 now available
for OS X 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
Native Instruments has released a Mac OS X version of Pro-53, its vintage synth software...

Create your own instruments in
GarageBand

Create your own instruments in
GarageBand 04/10/2004 08:32 PM
If you're bored with GarageBand's built-in software instruments, don't fret - you can easily add your own.

GarageBand 1.1 and custom instruments

GarageBand 1.1 and custom instruments 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
Apple updated GarageBand to 1.1 this week and in doing so, fixed the long-broken DLS Music Device. This means that you can now use SoundFont and DLS sound banks as Software Instruments. There are many nice free sound banks av...

Texas Instruments Stands Out

Texas Instruments Stands Out 04/15/2004 11:51 AM
The chipmaker distinguishes itself with solid Q1 results.

M-Audio releases software instruments

M-Audio releases software instruments 03/29/2005 09:10 AM
M-Audio is perhaps best known for their line of musical instruments and accessories for musicians who use computers in their work, but the company has just introduced its own line of software. The line debuts with Key Rig, a virtual keyboard rack, and Drum and Bass Rig, a virtual drum and bass rack. Both software apps have been developed to work on the Mac and PC and operate either as standalone software or as plug-ins for popular sequencing software. Each costs US$129.95.

PC-based test instruments fit the pocket

PC-based test instruments fit the pocket 04/21/2004 04:56 AM
Electronics Talk Apr 21 2004 9:26AM GMT

Texas Instruments has profit rise

Texas Instruments has profit rise 04/18/2005 06:53 PM
Texas Instruments, one of the world's biggest chip makers, reports a rise in quarterly profits.
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How to cut GarageBand Software
Instrument loops

How to cut GarageBand Software
Instrument loops 02/12/2004 11:33 AM
GarageBand lets you shorten Real Instrument loops by moving the start and/or end point. This works for the end point with Software Instruments, but not the start point. It seems immovable. I found a simple way to beat this ...

if you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady
like a'you...

if you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady
like a'you... 03/08/2004 11:04 PM
All songs sound better when performed on a ukulele.

GarageBand Jam Pack: 12-string Chord
layout

GarageBand Jam Pack: 12-string Chord
layout 01/28/2004 11:20 AM
GarageBand's Jam Pack add-on comes with a lot of great additional Software Instruments, Effects and Loops. One of the new instruments, the 12 String Chords Guitar, emulates a person strumming guitar chords (3 or more simulta...

New: GarageBand Microphone Cable

New: GarageBand Microphone Cable 08/23/2004 10:56 AM
Griffin Technology released the GarageBand Microphone Cable, made to connect a microphone directly to the Griffin iMic in order to record in GarageBand.

MicFlex USB Microphone For GarageBand
Users Now Shipping

MicFlex USB Microphone For GarageBand
Users Now Shipping 05/21/2004 09:56 AM
Today, MacMice announces that its MicFlex USB microphone system for GarageBand users is shipping.

Griffin intros 10' GarageBand Microphone
Cable

Griffin intros 10' GarageBand Microphone
Cable 08/21/2004 03:59 AM
Griffin Technology on Friday announced the release of its new 10-foot GarageBand Microphone Cable. It's magnetically shielded, comes with a built-in preamp and features a 3-pin XLR connector on one end, which works with most professional microphones, and a stereo mini jack connector on the other. It also eliminates the need for additional adapters when plugging an XLR-based microphone into the mini-jack preamp in Griffin's iMic and enables the connection of such a microphone to the company's iTalk recording device for iPod. Pricing is US$24.99.

Griffin unveils GarageBand Microphone
Cable for iMic

Griffin unveils GarageBand Microphone
Cable for iMic 08/20/2004 03:03 AM
Griffin Technology today announced a new cable made exclusively for connecting a microphone directly to the Griffin iMic to record in GarageBand...

How To Tune A Ukulele With Your Mac

How To Tune A Ukulele With Your Mac 03/17/2005 03:09 AM

Do you need a small useful tuning program to help you ensure that you are hitting the correct notes while laying down the vocals to your band's new album in Garageband? By C.K. Sample, III, Unofficial Apple Weblog

Win a Fluke ukulele

Win a Fluke ukulele 02/10/2004 07:58 PM
Boing Boing gets only 30,000 visitors a day. My other blog, Ukulelia.com pulls in a whopping 175 visitors a day. If you don't own a uke, you're missing out on a whole mess o' fun. But here's your chance to enter a drawing for a free ukulele. It's a Fluke ukulele, and it's a great instrument. I reviewed the Fluke for Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. Link

Hubble hit by instrument failure

Hubble hit by instrument failure 08/07/2004 01:31 PM
One of the four instruments on board the Hubble Space Telescope has stopped working, US space agency Nasa says.

Hubble Instrument Goes Dark

Hubble Instrument Goes Dark 08/10/2004 05:08 AM
NASA says one of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments stopped working last week. The failure is a sign of things to come for the ailing space telescope. By Amit Asaravala.

MiG-29 Instrument Panel Clock

MiG-29 Instrument Panel Clock 02/01/2005 09:09 PM

Your lover still won't call you "Maverick"—you can at least get some ego-stroking respect from your desk. While not as fun at parties as the Geiger-triggering substances siphoned off the black market as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union, the MiG-29 instrument panel clock will keep time even at 1,800 miles per hour or while pulling multiple Gs. Siegler & Co. is selling them as part of their "Sovietski Collection" for $179.00, where they tell us the clocks are "terrific for your desk, home or office. Or, use in your plane! One-year warranty. May not meet U.S. F.A.A. requirements."

Storefront Page [Sovietski via RedFerret]

Hubble Telescope Instrument Out of Order

Hubble Telescope Instrument Out of Order 08/09/2004 07:00 PM
An instrument that helped the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope look at black holes, newly forming stars and far-off galaxies has broken down, and NASA said Monday it is looking at possible ways to fix it. The instrument, called the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, was installed in 1997 and was designed to operate for five years. But it may be possible to rescue some of its operations, NASA said.

The space agency said Hubble's other instruments -- the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, and the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 -- are all operating normally. NASA said an electrical malfunction may be to blame. A similar problem affected the instrument in 2001, forcing a switch to the backup side. Now the backup side has failed, NASA said.

News source: Reuters

Read full story...

Beat Goes On For Musical Instrument
Makers

Beat Goes On For Musical Instrument
Makers 01/22/2004 02:09 AM
With new software promising to turn home computers into mini-recording studios, the industry is buzzing about its happiest prospect in years: the birth of the digital garage band. By Sue Zeidler (Reuters via MyAppleMenu)

Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 -
1990

Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 -
1990 07/12/2004 02:23 AM
120 years of electronic musical instruments .. history timeline .. related link

obsolete.com/120_years
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New Flight Instrument Aids Pilot's
Vision

New Flight Instrument Aids Pilot's
Vision 12/03/2003 07:25 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 3 2003 6:10PM ET

Sonic fabric dress -- wearable music
instrument

Sonic fabric dress -- wearable music
instrument 05/11/2004 03:17 PM
BoingBoing reader Michael Corrado points us to a website featuring...

Fabric made from woven audiotape, readable by gloves containing tape heads. Dress made for Jim Jon Fishman of Phish, which composed song about dress's debut. Fishman used dress to create music next night. Vegas, May 2004

Link

Update: BoingBoing reader Gary writes, "If you want to hear the results yourself (nothing too impressive ... yet), you can go here and download the concert (during the performance of "Love You"). You might also be pleasantly suprised that Phish is happy to transmit full soundboard quality with no DRM."

Haunted Mansion-style head as a
percussion instrument

Haunted Mansion-style head as a
percussion instrument 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Drum|head is an interactive project by Murat Konar, a student at London's Royal College of Art. It starts with a wig-stand with a computer-projected clip of a face on it (this is the same effect used for the "singing busts," "Madame Leota" and "Little Leota" at the Haunted Mansion in they Disney parks). A piezoelectric sensor detects it when you whack the head with a stick, cueing a drum sound and a funny facial-expression animation. The video is hilarious. Link (via We Make Money Not Art)

Toyota to unveil a new robot in 2005 who
can help factory workers and nurses, as
well as play a horn instrument

Toyota to unveil a new robot in 2005 who
can help factory workers and nurses, as
well as play a horn instrument 01/02/2004 04:49 AM

japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=283653
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Optek Music Systems, Inc. introduces the
new FG-400 series Fretlight® guitar
interactive learning instrument.

Optek Music Systems, Inc. introduces the
new FG-400 series Fretlight® guitar
interactive learning instrument. 08/23/2004 02:22 AM
Fretlight owners can see songs light up underneath their fingertips and can strum along with their favorite artists. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]

Install seq, a sequence generator

Install seq, a sequence generator 12/10/2003 11:28 AM
Today I missed having seq (from the GNU coreutils package), which prints a sequence of numbers. I downloaded the source and compiled it without any problems. The following steps assume that you already have a ~/bin directory....

MEMSense today announced the MAG3
inertial instrument. The MAG3 is the
world’s smallest analog inertial
measurement unit.

MEMSense today announced the MAG3
inertial instrument. The MAG3 is the
world’s smallest analog inertial
measurement unit. 07/18/2004 02:08 AM
The MAG3 is capable of sensing angular motion, acceleration and magnetic field about three orthogonal axes. The MAG3 provides all the sensors required for inertial measurement in single SMT package measuring 0.70 in × 0.70 in. × 0.40 in. [PRWEB Jul 18, 2004]

GarageBand and CC

GarageBand and CC 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
So Apple released this amazing new part of iLife, GarageBand. With it, you can make great music. (Well, I don't know about you, but I know Willem will make great music with it.) Anyway, one missing piece has been a simple way to know what content you're free to mix and remix within your GarageBand app. MacBand has now solved that problem. They've got a great archive of music by genre -- all marked with Creative Commons licenses.

GarageBand 1.0.1

GarageBand 1.0.1 02/12/2004 06:06 PM
Clarifies specific alert dialogs regarding system performance.

Doing More With GarageBand (Again)

Doing More With GarageBand (Again) 07/26/2004 10:55 AM
This is a tale of a couple more ways I've been using GarageBand to do things I am relatively certain it was not designed to do. By Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Mac Observer (via MyAppleMenu)

GarageBand!!

GarageBand!! 01/22/2004 03:05 AM
When Apple announced iLife '04 a couple of weeks ago, a common reaction was moaning over the price, which went from free to $49. Which is ridiculous...$49 is a steal for that bundle of software. After playing around with GarageBand this morning, I can report that GB alone is worth the price. I've never had this much fun with a piece of software before...I got my money's worth after 30...

GarageBand

GarageBand 01/07/2004 03:10 PM
I’ve been waiting 20 years for GarageBand.

Back in the early ’80s, when I was a teenager—before there were even Macs—I had an Apple II Plus with a cool piece of software named ALF II. (This was even before the sitcom named Alf.)

(Actually, it wasn’t just software: there was a card you had to plug into the computer.)

It was something like an early, early GarageBand—you could create music and save songs and play them back. The music played through some car-stereo speakers I plugged in to the ALF card.

You had to actually enter notes into a staff on-screen, using the twin roller-paddle-things that came with the Apple II Plus. (No mice yet, at least not for the mass market.) There was no way to plug in an instrument and just play.

It had up to nine tracks, and it had some basic things like setting the synthesizer settings and telling sections of a track to repeat.

It was cumbersome and the sound was totally electronic, but it worked. I made dozens of songs. I loved it.

And I’ve been waiting 20 years for the chance to do that again. Sure, I could have had this already, but for a bunch more money. Since composing music was just a hobby for me, I never wanted to spend a bunch on music software. Now I don’t have to.

This software excites me personally far beyond anything Apple has announced since OS X. More than iPhoto, iTunes, Safari, iPods, and everything else put together.

Of course, I haven’t actually tried it yet, but it only has to be half as good as the demo to be a wonderful (to me, at least) piece of software.

"GarageBand"

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My copy of iLife '04 arrived today and I've had a chance to try out GarageBand.

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