Comments on: Etsy Video: Handmade Music Geekfest, MIDI Slime, Shock Gloves, GP Tracker

By: Create Digital Music » Innovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:30:05 +0000

[...] My favorite of Eric’s League is the Slime-a-tron. Here I am playing the slime, and getting Eric to divulge his secret formula. Ed.: We saw the Slime-a-tron at the CDM/Make night at Etsy Labs — see previous video and photos/report, especially if you like this sort of thing. -PK [...]

By: Create Digital Music » NASA Yuri’s Night Rave: Space is the Place

Create Digital Music » NASA Yuri’s Night Rave: Space is the Place — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:34:51 +0000

[...] Adding to our running tally of totally geeky events, electronic musician Chachi Jones writes with a report from the Yuri’s Night party at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Sure, Yuri’s Night events, in honor of the great space explorer cosmonaut, take place all over the world. But when it hits Ames, you get a full-blown rave — and fantastic electronic music, to boot. [...]

By: Create Digital Music » LittleGPTracker: LSDJ-Style Music Tracker for Linux Game Systems, Windows, and Mac

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:09:32 +0000

[...] As seen in the video from last month’s Music Makers event, LittleGPTracker is a tracker for Linux-based GP2X and GP32 systems. The GP-series boxes are terrific little game machines that, unlike proprietary commercial game systems from Sony and Nintendo, are completely open. (Well, even if there is a certain pleasure to hacking PSPs, Game Boys, and DS machines to play homebrew anyway.) [...]