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Crafty Musicians MacGyver Some Instruments Out Of a Balloon, String, And a Box

Nerds, put away your Rock Band sets! Watch as these two creative dudes show us how to make a bass guitar out of a balloon and a piece of string, while adding some percussion with an ordinary wooden box.

Television Dan Grappone

Heavy Metal Album Cover is Retro Sci-fi Radness

The Sword may not be your cup of tea, but no matter your musical predilections, the cover for their new album, Warp Riders (YES!) is pure awesome. Giant asteroids. Red gas clouds. A spaceship. Kanye—please copy this. [io9]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Psychedelic heavy metal scifi, courtesy of The Sword

Austin, Texas metal band The Sword has forged their latest album, Warp Riders, around a scifi concept involving a time traveling cosmic wizard, a band of hyperspace pirates and two starship armadas above a tidally locked planet called Acheron. On their first two albums (Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth), The Sword carved…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

For Almost $3k These Ultrasone Edition 10 Headphones Better Turn You Into a Zebra

We know the downfalls of cheap headphones, but is $2,749 for a pair of Ultrasones going to give you the best-possible audio experience known to man? That I can’t tell you, but my god would you look at them?! They’re a thing of beauty, I’m sure you’ll agree. But then, Ultrasone has always been known…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Classical Music Lovers Get an iTunesesque Store of Their Own

It’s not impossible to browse and discover good classical music online—but it’s very, very difficult. The iTunes selection is limited, and the sound quality of downloaded music isn’t up to Tchaikovsky. Sony aims to fix that with Ariama, a music store devoted the classics. Ariama’s greatest appeal might lie less in its selection—it’s not promising…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Get the Sonos Controller App Now and Turn Your iPad Into A Giant Music Remote

We loved the idea of turning our iPads into giant music remotes and we’re glad to see that we can finally do it. The Sonos Controller app is now available, free, and should be great for those who own both a Sonos system and an iPad. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-ipad-app-will-make-your-tablet-a-giant-music-remo-5569851 Those of us without the complete set of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

What Happens When You Fuse Technology, Art, Music, and a Fish

Don’t worry, that little fish isn’t going to get electrocuted, it’s part of “Sound Interjections!”, a musical experiment by Yuri Suzuki. When that fish swims through the sensors on its tank, increasingly complex sounds are played. [Yuri Suzuki via Core77]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Will Trent Reznor’s HBO miniseries be television’s next critical smash?

This is clearly the era of ambitious television. But can Trent Reznor’s miniseries project Year Zero, based on his concept album and online ARG about a futuristic dystopia, really happen? Maybe so, because the musician’s project continues to churn forward. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about Year Zero, the futuristic miniseries…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nano-violin has strings a millionth of an inch thick…but you can hear it play

The micronium is a musical instrument with strings a millionth of an inch thick, and thanks to some nifty engineering it’s the tiniest instrument ever producing audible notes. This really is the world’s tiniest violin, but it’s playing for everybody. Previous attempts at building a micronium resulted in instruments that could only create tones inaudible…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Sunday Matinee: Daft Punk’s anime space opera, Interstella 5555

We all know that Daft Punk’s composed the soundtrack to Tron Legacy. But did you know that in 2003, the band teamed up with Toei Animation to create an intergalactic odyssey about alien pop bands? Witness Interstella 5555. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is a dialog-less film set to the group’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It

Many of us are prone to using the Shazam music-identification service whenever we encounter unfamiliar songs. After all, it’s just so easy to whip out our phones, open an app, and know everything about a mystery song in seconds. But how does Shazam gives us all this information so quickly? There is a cool service…

Tech News Bryan Jacobs

This iPad-Controlled Bike Stereo Will Result In At Least One Tragic Demise

Seeing this photo of an iPad-controlled bicycle stereo, I immediately imagined a grisly scene of smoke, twisted aluminum, and a tragically shattered IPS display. Oh and there’s a dead biker in there somewhere too. [Flickr via TUAW]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Concert Speakers Are A Lie

My life was just flipped, turned upside down and I didn’t even have to move to California. It just took one photo, a dozen instant messages, and a handful of emails to confirm that I’ve been lied to by musicians. My first reaction when I saw the photo above was to believe that it could…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Loud Music Doesn’t Affect Hearing as Much as Previously Thought

Apple’s headphones have already passed the test, but what about other sources of loud music? Should we really be worried about going deaf? New research published in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing suggests the whole topic is overblown. https://gizmodo.com/apple-free-to-continue-destroying-our-ears-in-2010-5437840 It’s worth bearing in mind that prolonged exposure to excessively loud music will do…

Health Kat Hannaford

Mödek’s DJ Table Will Have the Laydeez Requesting Even More Beyonce

So you’ve got your decks, your MacBook and a few CDJs, but they’re sat on a couple of beer crates—or a desk from IKEA, if you’re lucky. $1,300 is a sound investment for your DJ skillz, surely? And let’s face it, the smooth high-gloss lacquer finish is a chick magnet of the highest order. If…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Clint Mansell to score Moon director’s consciousness-swapping terrorism flick The Source Code

Good news, soundtrack aficionados! Pi and Moon composer Clint Mansell will be scoring The Source Code, Duncan Jones’ upcoming flick about a soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) whose consciousness is transferred into the body of a commuter who’s witnessed a train bombing. Jones said on his Twitter account today: Have a bloody fantastic bit of Source Code…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

New OK Go Awesome Video Is Full of Awesome Dogs

There’s not much else to say about OK Go’s new video, except that 1) it’s awesome, 2) it features awesome dogs, and 3) the song—White Knuckles—is awesomely good, to the level of the best Prince. Actually, there’s a lot more to say. This is how it all happened: OK Go approached training company Talented Animals…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Napster’s iPhone App Breaks Cover Despite Their Licensing Fees Concerns

Only a year ago we heard that Napster wasn’t keen on launching phones apps, simply because the licensing fees were too expensive. They seemingly got over that small issue, as you can now download their “free” iPhone App. https://gizmodo.com/why-we-cant-have-a-napster-iphone-app-or-android-app-5350383 I say free, but while it’s free to download from the App Store, you must be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Music Rumors Emerge: $25 Yearly To Stream Your Music From the Cloud

If all goes according to this rumored plan, Google Music will be out along with Android 3.0 this fall/winter, and it’ll charge you just $25 per year to store songs in the cloud. At least, if the labels let it. https://gizmodo.com/google-music-launching-alongside-android-3-0-this-fall-5578456 The $25 per year plan is Google’s opening offer to the music industry, reports…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Watch These Walls Dance The Night Away

Dancing on the ceiling? Please. Totally put to shame by these walls that do the dancing themselves. Who knew stop-motion had these kinds of moves? The video sets 700,000 still photos of a mural trilogy by artist MWM to the tune—appopriately enough—of “Walls Are Dancing” by Monsieur Monsieur (which is presumably not the French reincarnation…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Crafty Musicians MacGyver Some Instruments Out Of a Balloon, String, And a Box

Heavy Metal Album Cover is Retro Sci-fi Radness

Psychedelic heavy metal scifi, courtesy of The Sword

For Almost $3k These Ultrasone Edition 10 Headphones Better Turn You Into a Zebra

Classical Music Lovers Get an iTunesesque Store of Their Own

Get the Sonos Controller App Now and Turn Your iPad Into A Giant Music Remote

What Happens When You Fuse Technology, Art, Music, and a Fish

Will Trent Reznor’s HBO miniseries be television’s next critical smash?

Nano-violin has strings a millionth of an inch thick…but you can hear it play

Sunday Matinee: Daft Punk’s anime space opera, Interstella 5555

How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It

This iPad-Controlled Bike Stereo Will Result In At Least One Tragic Demise

The Concert Speakers Are A Lie

Loud Music Doesn’t Affect Hearing as Much as Previously Thought

Mödek’s DJ Table Will Have the Laydeez Requesting Even More Beyonce

Clint Mansell to score Moon director’s consciousness-swapping terrorism flick The Source Code

New OK Go Awesome Video Is Full of Awesome Dogs

Napster’s iPhone App Breaks Cover Despite Their Licensing Fees Concerns

Google Music Rumors Emerge: $25 Yearly To Stream Your Music From the Cloud

Watch These Walls Dance The Night Away

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