Remember, back in the day, when classical musicians would get all pissed off at synth manufacturers, because they thought that synths would make musicians obsolete?
Well - it turns out it isn’t synths that classical musicians should be worried about.
It’s Ethan Winer, the star of the music video Tele-Vision.
Winer’s they guy behind RealTraps - [...]

It’s Friday, and you know what that means at Axehole - sex, drugs, rock and roll and maybe even some Jesus and air guitar.
This week, we came across a promotional video from the eighties for the Stepp Guitar Synthesizer. The Stepp was a really interesting, powerful MIDI instrument. It had 12 “strings” - 6 neck [...]

DSMIDIWiFi has introduced wireless MIDI for the Nintendo DS. The MIDI signals are sent to the computer via Wifi, and a server program forwards them to MIDI applications.
Here’s a video of DSMIDIWiFi in action:

DSMIDIWifi consists of:

libmidiwifi - An open source library for DS homebrew development that makes it easy to write DS software that [...]

The reactable is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
If that sounds like a bunch of [...]

Topless DJing appears to be going mainstream.
DJ Niki Belucci joins DJ Portial Surreal and DJ Diva in spinning the discs topless.
Warning: Not worksafe.
The video below contains graphic images of DJ Niki Belucci in action. This video contains nudity and old-school house music that some may find offensive.