PingMag had a chat with co-founder of experimental electronic music label Audio Dregs . Eric Mast a.k.a. E*Rock is a sympathetic musician, designer, clip director and multi-talented artist. Check out the interview and make sure to watch the nice attached animations!!
What you see on this picture is the first serious music making software written for a mobile phone ever. Yes, of course it runs on iPhone, and its name is Noise.io . Experts will understand when I let you know that it is a synthesizer that performs FM synthesis; a method which is very popular in the studios and onstage since the world’s best selling synthesizer’s (to name it: the Yamaha DX7) debut until these days. But Noise.io will not produce any musical tone, it creates only noises, bleeps, effects and athmospheres instead – in a quality that was unimaginable previously. And if you want it to keep in sync with any music outside just tap the phone’s surface accordingly. No joke. Check the details here – the AppStore will list it in 25th, August.
Eve Massacre: Blame it on the Bossa Boris [mp3]
Edie Gorme – Blame it on the Bossa Nova
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Boris – Message
japanese noise meets classic pop
the cheesiest noize you ever heard!!
A compilation CD about sound-based nonlethal weaponry featuring tracks by Carlos Giffoni, Dave Phillips, Francisco López, Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, Justice Yeldham, Lasse Marhaug, Mark Fell, Powerbooks for Peace, Torturing Nurse, Weasel Walter and Zbigniew Karkowski. LESS-LETHAL, vol. 1 is a sarcastic approach to the use of commercially available music in the military context (see Waco, Noriega, etc.) It includes a 16-page booklet with an essay by German researcher Paul Paulun about nonlethal force and its historical relationship with sound and music.
The foundations for this project were laid around 1999, with a long period of research into the equally blurry and fascinating fields of nonlethal weapons (also known as less-lethal weapons) and the behavioral sciences. Over the course of this time, we found that one of the most interesting aspects of this phenomenon – full of mythology and speculation – was the use of commercially available music in the context of armed conflict, torture and crowd control. Particularly the sheer lack of imagination on the part of military experts who resort to the use of pop music as a weapon, by playing it back for painfully long periods of time at very high volumes.
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