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    July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

    Röyksopp – Remind me
    Sweet use of infographics as a music video.
    Description from the YouTube Rodadroll site: Directed by the French motion graphics studio H5. It features a day in the life of a woman working in the London’s Square Mile solely through infographics; this includes labeled close-ups of everyday objects, product lifecycles, schematic diagrams, charts, [...]

    Chameleon Guitar

    June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

    MIT has created a guitar that utilizes wood and electronic sensors to imitate nearly any guitar sound. These are the same amazing researchers that have created The Sixth Sense, & Siftables
    Acoustic instruments with their wood-grain patterns produce unique sounds, but a prototype guitar built by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student combines the natural acoustics [...]

    The SCS.3M is an amazing touch sensitive DJ controller that works with many music software programs.
    You can check out their site for more information. Stanton
    Richard Devine puts it through its paces here and describes why he likes it.

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    Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself.
    About Qi Zhang
    Qi Zhang is a Master’s candidate at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of [...]

    John Mayer doing a cover of Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’.

    You know, I thought this was a great performance of Neon, as well:

    I continue to be impressed with John Mayer. Say what you want about his ‘pop-iness’, but the guy really can play guitar and sing.
    I also recommend taking a listen to the John Mayer Trio. [...]

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