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Photo Gallery: Gowan at Niagara Falls’ Scotiabank Centre
Red Hot Chili Peppers Played With Actual Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Playing some Red Hot Chili Peppers song using an actual red hot chili pepper… and a bass guitar!”
Red Hot Chili Peppers Played With Actual Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Playing some Red Hot Chili Peppers song using an actual red hot chili pepper… and a bass guitar!”
LEGO Bionicle Robots Play Kraftwerk And Daft Punk
Musician and daytime technician Giuseppe Acito aka Opificio Sonico created a tiny set of bandmates using LEGO Bionicle robots he’s programmed to play a mix of sensors, smartphones, and other inputs. Here, they perform Kraftwerk’s The Robots and Daft Punk’s Da Funk.
Postmodern Jukebox and Kenton Chen Perform A Funk Cover Of Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Closer’
Pop music cover band Postmodern Jukebox teamed up with vocalist Kenton Chen to perform a funk cover of “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails.
The VODER Has Been Around Since 1939
Considered the first electrical speech synthesizer, VODER (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR) was developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs and demonstrated at both the 1939 New York World’s Fair and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Difficult to use and difficult to operate, VODER nonetheless paved the way for future machine-generated speech.
How To Get Phil Collins’ Synth Sound For “In The Air Tonight”
In this edition of Reverb Synth Sounds, William Kurk breaks down the Phil Collins classic “In The Air Tonight.”
Originally released in 1981 on Collins’ Face Value, the song has become emblematic of ’80s pop music. Oddly enough, as William explains in the video above, the song’s foundation is built on a preset disco pattern on the Roland CompuRhythm CR-78 drum machine. From there, the song utilizes a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 polyphonic synth and a heavy dose of gated reverb.
Photo Gallery: Steel Panther with Diamante at Toronto’s Rebel Nightclub
