Video: Can you play two guitars at the same time? Rodney can!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by admin Leave a comment

Taking my guitar lessons was one of the toughest ventures of my life, for I used to falter many a times and get entangled between different strings in search for the musical beats. What would you say about Rodney Branigan who plays two guitars simultaneously? All I can utter is that he is just an amazing musician. Because I know what it takes to master even a single guitar, and to play two guitars at the same time and that too with good organization is just unbelievable. Hats off to Rodney Branigan! Via: youtube

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Lapbeat: Percussion Instrument with an Ergonomic Design

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Have you ever thought what life would be like without music and sound? Music is one of the best means to relax your brain from strain and tension. It is much better when you play some thing your self on this lapbeat. The instrument has a shape similar to a mushroom and is very comfortable to play while you are in any position. It has an inbuilt speaker, a sliding control panel, a connecting compartment and most important a hardware attaching port. The shape supports the sound waves as By installing built-in speakers at the bottom and v-drum (advanced electronic MIDI drum trigger) technology into the touch pads, the quality of the sound is made deeper and richer. Via: yankodesign

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Are Chemicals the Key to the Unique Sound Produced by Stradivarius Violins?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin Leave a comment

Joseph Nagyvary, professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M University proposed a theory 30 years ago saying that chemicals had some acoustic effect. Recently a study by Nagyvary teamed with collaborators Joseph DiVerdi of Colorado State University and Noel Owen of Brigham Young University have discovered that chemicals used to treat the wood used in Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are the reasons for the distinct sound produced by the world-famous instruments. It was found that these two famous makers intended to protect their violins from the attack of insects and in order to preserve them they treated the wood with aggressive chemicals. This procedure was an accidental invention, which lead them to create violins that produced unique sound. There are only about 600 Stradivarius violins remaining and they are valued at up to $5 million each. Nagyvary and his team are still conducting experiments to discover those chemicals and are looking for some precious wood samples of these masterpieces. Such a discovery will shape a new innovative technique to create better violins and also a way to preserve these instruments. Via: sciencedaily

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Modified old fashioned vertical piano with beautiful blue light worth $3,000

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Proximasolaris has redesigned a piano with exceptional looks. An old fashioned vertical piano has been modified beautifully, a motorized cabin hides two monitors behind it and a matrix of blue LED’s makes the piano blush in soothing blue light. The masterpiece has a cost of $3,000. Via: engadget

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Make yourself heard with Waistband Speech Amplifier

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Freedom to speech is something that lets you express your self to others. Noe can make people hear your bold and powerful voice using this Waistband Speech Amplifier. It is a perfect solution for the people who have to address groups but often fail to grab their attention due to their low-volume speech. This device is very handy to use. It is compact and lightweight so can be carried along easily. Functioning is very simple with easy controls. The device uses 6 AA batteries that can be recharged easily via a rechargeable unit included in the kit and is available for $125. Via: gizmodo

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CES 2007: Infinity Systems offer new environmentally friendly loudspeaker technologies

Posted on February 5, 2012 by admin Leave a comment

The company exhibited Responsible Sound at the CES 2007. The system is based on an new environmentally friendly loudspeaker technology that uses recyclable, replenishable and biodegradable materials for the purpose of loudspeaker enclosures, components and finishes. The company is working with material experts from around the world to discover such material that are rigid enough to provide these speakers with significant sonic benefits and can be easily molded to wide range of designs. This is a good effort to make use of green materials that will raise the awareness amongst the people. I guess this is another field that has started to pay attention towards preserving environment after the automobile industry. Via: ecoustics

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Rock on with the Guitar offering built-in amp

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The Boston based guitar maker, First Act, who already has prepared guitars for Henry Garza of Los Lonely Boys and Richard Nielsen of Cheap Trick, has come up with the Vex, a guitar with a built-in pre-amp, at the CES in Las Vegas, which will let you rock even without heaving a Peavey amp. Sound quality of the Vex is as good as company’s standard guitars, but the only missing thing is their custom wood-grained styling. First Act is selling the Vex for $600, but you may get it all free if you buy some particular models of cars from Volkswagen. Via: crave.cnet

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Hear sound from glass or wall with SolidDrive

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If you are fed up of hearing music on your bulky speakers and want some thing new, Induction Dynamics have a great deal for you. They have launched ‘SolidDrive’. The system is small in size and measures only 2.28-inch in diameter and 2.08-inch high at mere 520g in weight and can deliver high quality sound when joined to an any kind of solid material. The sound is transmitted from the entire medium with zero visibility of the source. This is a great idea to decorate your room interior. Via: aving

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The Heart Chamber Orchestra: Creating Music from the Heartbeats

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin Leave a comment

The Heart Chamber Orchestra is a one hour performance that creates music from the heart. The orchestra consists of 12 musicians that are equipped with ECG Sensors and computer monitors that analyses the state of the 12 hearts. Using the heartbeats the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment and the musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians and they read and play the score that is displayed from the computer screen. The score is changed according to the heartbeats of the musicians and vice versa. Click here to check out some videos of the performance. Via: we-make-money-not-art

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Bacterial Orchestra: A living musical organism made of audio cells

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The Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism that is developed from audio cells. The musical cells in turn have their own loudspeaker and a microphone. The best thing about the orchestra is that it can react to its surroundings and adapt to them. This means that it hears its surroundings and then sync with what it hears and plays accordingly. Each cell has some unique features that can be compared to DNA of a human body. If there is any problem with a cell it dies and is reborn again with a new DNA. The result of this amazing technology is a completely living orchestra that adapts to its surroundings and becomes smarter with use. The orchestra is developed by Olle Corneer, Christian H�rgren and Martin Lubcke. Via: we-make-money-not-art

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