The Voice of Saturn Sequencer can be bought either as a fully assembled unit or as a DIY-kit.

links:
Project Page
Project Blog

Just stumbeld upon this tutorial @ the fabulous instructables site. It shows a cheap way to build your own bullet-time rig. The project was developed by Graffiti Research Lab and director Dan the Man for his latest music video featuring rappers Styles P, AZ and the Large Professor.

Check out the tutorial:

www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Enter-the-Ghetto-Matrix-DIY-Bullet-Time/

video (to see the video in a better quality visit dantheman.tv)

what happens if all kinds of scientist gather together? they have a chat about possible ways the world could end. seems frightening but thou is very entertaining.

(image by Theodore Watson)

Since the gewista stated that they will remove any Posters in viennas public space that R not put up by the gewista, i think it´s time for different tactics. (press1, press2 & petition)

Laser tagger is a processing based software that allows U to paint on urban infrastructure using a projector & a laserpointer.

it´s available 4free @ the graffiti research lab vienna(GRLv) site and there is another different software by Theodore Watson

links:

soup.graffitiresearchlab.at

muonics.net/site_docs/work.php

Blipfestival is dedicated to music generated by 80ies game consoles. Every year a crowd of music lovers and/or nerds comes together to bend the circuits of 8bit toys. This years edition took place in NY from Nov.29 till Dec.2.

for more info check:
blipfestival.org
www.8bitpeoples.com

artists:
BitShifter / Sabrepulse / 8GB / Virt / Bodenständig 2000 / and many more

Mixxx is a mixing software for professional and amateur djs. its free and opensource.

It allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix like Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.

go get it @

mixxx.sourceforge.net

available for Win/Osx/Linux.

p__out

just stumbled across a very handy service called spamgourmet.

the problem: surfing the internet u need to give away your mail details for registration or confirmation issues. sometimes the site u trust with your information sells it to spamservers, ect. ... and now you´re getting all kind of stock allerts and viagra advertising. damn.

spamgourmet gives u the opportunity to create an infinite number of mail accounts and specify how many mail can be send to it. all mails will be spamfiltered and afterwards forewarded to your protected adress.

like this:

(any word).(number of emails).(username)@spamgourmet.com

ex: nomorespam.5.clrcdd@spamgourmet.com would allow to send 5 emails to this specific address.

go get it @ www.spamgourmet.com

peace

Cory Doctorow is an activist/sci-fi writer/blogger/public speaker/technology person and canadian.

Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.

All of his books are available 4free on his website in all possible formats & the community is contributing language translations, artwork, conversions ect.

I am pro-user, and while I’ll tolerate just about any re-use of my books, the one perversion I won’t stomach is the use of bullshit DRM in connection with it, if I can help it. (quote: ground-rules for DIY file-conversions ;) )

 

The author will be in vienna for monochrom´s taugshow # 15 which will take place @ Brut, Konzerthaus.

Fri November 23, 8:00pm.

links:

craphound.com

www.boingboing.net

latest book "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"

Oh my God! This is the stuff nerd's dreams (at least mine...) are made out of: two singing tesla-coils (a.k.a. "zeusaphones") playing the super mario bros. theme. It is something i could never have imagined being build/performed but always knew i wanted to happen my whole life. As for how it works, this is the description from one of the attendees of the Duckon 2007 Teslathon, where Steve Ward first presented his (single) singing coil :

"This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.

So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics.

What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it's firing.

This Tesla coil was built and is owned by Steve Ward. Steve is a EE student at U of I Urbana-Champaign. He and Jeff have been going to Teslathons, which is where they met..."

(quotation taken from hauntedfrog.com)

another description taken from the Makezine Blog:

"The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating.

There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark.

They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is

assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software."

Damn... might be a good idea to use for my album.. >)