Category Archives: Music

Androidome – DIY Android Monome!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by max

For those of you who enjoy playing with a monome and making your own background music for your next YouTube movie, here’s a cool DIY Android Monome dubbed “Androidome” that can be downloaded on the Market and be wirelessly hooked up to your computer’s Max/MSP 5 Runtime to enjoy all of your creative music skills on an Android phone.

Androidome is a portmanteau of Android + monome, android being the popular operating system for mobile phones, and the monome being a minimalist instrument/controller/interface/toy. Like the monome, the app itself doesn̵

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Guitar DIY – How to Fix Guitar Head!

Posted on July 18, 2010 by max

Do you have a cracked guitar head?  I am not much of a guitar head but someone has devised up a great guide on how to fix your guitar head, all with flaming flames added to give it an extra devilish look.

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World’s Most Expensive Violin at $18 Million?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by max

When this violin shown in above photo gets sold at $18 million, it will be the most expensive violin sold ever!  Check out Joshua Bell playing on it, pretty neat, DON”T DROP IT!  hahaha

In the rarified world of old violins, the Stradivarius is commonly thought of as the very best. But for many connoisseurs and concert performers, the pinnacle is the work of a craftsman from Cremona in Italy known as Guarneri del Gesù.

One of the last violins to be cre

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Sleepsonic Pillow Speakers!

Posted on June 26, 2010 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ycH8GezZc

Because I am such a music-addict, many nights I will go to sleep while listening to music with my earbuds.  Of course, even with the best earbuds, it can be a bit uncomfortable to lay on your sides, nevermind the wires becoming strangled while you sleep.

There’s a solution for that, the Sleepsonic Pillow Speakers allow you to listen to your favorite mus

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Super Mario Bros BeatBox!

Posted on June 22, 2010 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-JN7_rxtE&feature=player_embedded

If you thought last week’s Super Mario Bros music with a violin was cool, wait until you hear what this Japanese guy has in for some BeatBox!

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Vuvuzela Android App can Annoy Your Friends!

Posted on June 22, 2010 by max

Certainly, this “vuvuzela” thing is getting out of hand, with Vuvuzela now available as an Android app so you can annoy heck out of your friends and of course, maybe you can leave your Android phone playing vuvuzela in the classroom.

Really though, I think we’ve had enough of this vuvuzela crap, I ain’t buying it nor do I respect anyone trying to make a dollar out of it.

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Sound Egg Gaming Chair!

Posted on June 22, 2010 by max

For those of you who want the ultimate experience of being inside an egg while you play games or even blog (like me) all day while enjoying the customized, sound-enhanced embedded sub-woofers and speakers, you will be happy to learn that finally the Sound Egg Gaming Chair is available today, starting at just $1450.

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Super Mario Bros Background Song Played with a Violin! [Friday Fun]

Posted on June 18, 2010 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcFQquHipE&feature=player_embedded#!

For those of you who love Nintendo and Super Mario Bros the game, you are certainly going to love this talented young man playing it all with a violin, even the sound effects Mario makes while playing.

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CD DIY – How to Rip Multiple CDs into MP3s!

Posted on June 15, 2010 by max

For those of you who have “massive collection of audio CDs that you want to convert to MP3s for use with your MP3 player or iPods, there’s a great new service called Rip2iPod where you can send all your CDs and they will send you MP3s in DVDs.

I know you can probably rip CDs yourself if you’ve only got a couple to do but for those of you with hundreds or even thousands of CDs, this could be a great way to rip multiple CDs into MP3s so you can spend that time instead of better things like playing a round

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iPad Stylus Hack – How to Make iPad Drum Stick Stylus!

Posted on May 20, 2010 by max

For those of you who are crazy about turning an iPhone or iPad into a real musical device, you might want to make yourself a set of these great/awesome iPad drum stick styluses.

via instructables

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