Electric independence
The Synth Anyone Can Build
These kits are perfect for prototyping as they require no soldering, wiring, programming or other construction, making them into a kind of electronic LEGO set.
'Mardi Gras in a Can': Consider the Drum Buddy, the Mysterious Light-Powered Synth
The Drum Buddy operates something like an optical theremin, giving the stylistically-liberated musician power to make otherworldly, fully analog sounds of all kinds
Here Is Your Trippy Music Video of the Summer
Put away the bath salts and indulge in this cosmic, hypnotic, nearing-middle-age postcard from electronic duo Peaking Lights. Directed by LEGS, the video turns an ode to their young son into a trippy ‘70s fever dream, envisioning parenthood as a kind...
Motherboard TV: Electric Independence: JD Samson
I was enjoying a NY Times dispatch from Silicon Valley about Ellen Pao, a junior partner “at the distinguished venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,” who’s brought a sexual discrimination lawsuit against her employer. It’s a key...
Motherboard TV: Morton Subotnick, Father of Electronic Music
What kind of music would robots make? Blips and bloops, most likely, with a whole lot of abstract tones and soundwave manipulation. You know, droning stuff that sounds like auditory binary. I mean, come on. How musical could a robot be?Such were the...
Motherboard Unveils The Secrets of XXXChange’s Bass-Making
Pay a visit to the Brooklyn-based producer’s home studio and get a glimpse into his zany production process.
MBTV: Electric Independence: XXXChange
Just because it's Tuesday and some of us are still recovering from the weekend doesn't mean that we don't want to be shoving some fresh booty house jams into our skulls. Well, looks like we all just scored, because Brooklyn-based producer XXXChange...
Electric Independence: In the Studio with Holy Ghost!
NYC duo "Holy Ghost!":http://www.holyghostnyc.com/ released one of the best dance records of 2011 -- one of the best pop records even. If it came out around the crest of blog-house a few years ago, it's all you'd be hearing and all you'd be hearing...
Electric Independence: Keeping It Analog With Moby
The first version of Moby's latest, _Damaged_, only came out last Spring. It's maybe not the game-changing burst of genius some would like, but the record's a perfectly serviceable bit of after-after-party/way-cool Tribeca bar electronica. In any case...
The Season Finale of Electric Independence: Chris & Cosey
Genre-bending iconoclasts, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti changed electronic music forever with Throbbing Gristle.
The Unsound Festival Celebrates "Advanced Music," From Eno to Emeralds
The "Unsound Festival":http://unsound.pl/en - dedicated to "advanced" music - swarms New York City this week with a cacophony of unlikely sounds generated by some of the most notable of the world's cutting edge musicians. Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Ben...