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Music made with the tongue – Tongue Drive System

Hye Yeon Nam is a visual and kinetic artist living in Atlanta, GA and originally from Seoul, Korea.  She’s a designer and artist who is inspired by her “personal experiences, emotions, and in-between state.”
At one point in time she asked herself the question “What if we no longer had the use of our hands to play instruments or produce various forms of music? Through what alternative could we express ourselves musically?” … So, she decided to come up with the answer for her own question.
The human tongue can actually rival …

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Amazing art made with old audio cassette tapes

I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) in my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise.
Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t even own a tape player. Even if I did want to listen to any of them one day, I’m sure I’d be considerably dissapointed in the sound quality (if there was any music still …

Audio, Celebrities, Famous Gear, recordings »

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Stevie Wonder’s Superstition clavinet part dissected

Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is definitely one of the funkiest songs on the planet – It was released way back in 1972 on the Talking Book album and climbed up the UK charts quickly. Stevie came up with the song by playing the original funky drum beat that starts the track and humming a melody over the top of it.
Superstition was originally intended for Jeff Beck as a thank you for the guitarist’s help on the awesome Talking Book album (buy CD here, download here), but when Motown heard it they …

Gear, Products »

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iceKube – The coolest portable speaker gadget ever.

I love having music with me everywhere, so I always have my iPhone full of music. Of course the problem is that I don’t always have something to plug it into. I’ve seen little portable speakers designed specifically for this purpose, but the small ones sound absolutely terrible and the ones that do sound halfway decent are usually way to bulky to carry around.
Well, one of my friends (thanks Eric) put me on to the IceKube. This innovative little box basically turns any solid surface into a big, …

DIY, Weird »

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Name your band, create cover art and name your first album…randomly!

I’ve seen a ton of band name generators on the net, but here’s something that is a LOT more fun.  With a little bit of randomness, Wikipedia, Flickr and  Quotationspage can name your band and come up with a name and cover art for your new album!
Here’s how it works: