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Museum of Sound Toys
A repository of links to online sound-toys and fun music applications. Highlighting interactive works that allow you to create music, explore music history and the science of sound.
The unique collection offers categories for music games, music remixing, virtual instruments, multimedia publications and much more.
These fun and educational applications are suitable for most ages and abilities. The works can be used to support learning activities like music, history, science, art, design and technology.
The MoST lens also serves as a showcase and resource for Flash multimedia designers. Explore and enjoy!
Suitable resources may be donated in the form of a link and brief description using the Contact Me link or in the comments area at the bottom of the page. The same goes for list updates and dead links.
Lens URL: http://www.squidoo.com/soundtoys
Services
Dave's Imaginary Sound Store - Shop for Audio and Music products.
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Soundscapes
Ambient Sound & Vision Mixing
Interactive games and toys that allow you to create audio visual compositions and relaxing ambient soundscapes.
- Boomshine
- A colorful, musical, chain reaction game in which the objective is to make the dots go away. There are 12 levels. Perform a 'Boomshine' by clearing all of the dots on the screen. (Flash)
- Moodstream
- An interface for controlling and generating still images, videos and audio into a seamless creative pallette. As a marketing tool it showcases licensed media in a contextual format.
- Flow in Games
- A game where you dive deep into the space eat and evolve. Atmospheric ambient sounds play in the background. Offline Version (PC & Mac) 8.4mb also available for Playstation. (Flash)
- Sound Sleeping
- Mix and combine natural sound effects to create relaxing sonic ambiences. (Flash)
- Visual Acoustics
- A canvas to paint reactive music and vision as a real-time artistic performance. Brushes are painted across the screen, each consisting of an instrument and accompanying visual, to build layers of improvised musical vision. (Flash)
Music Discovery
Music Discovery Tools
Collections, galleries and demos showcasing products and design concepts. Some of these projects provide tools and mashups that allow you to discover music and movies that can be purchased from distributors like Amazon or downloaded for free.
- Jamendo : Spiral
- Discover, download and recommend free, Creative Commons licensed music.
- JSyn Example Applets
- A large collection of virtual audio applications that use the free JSyn plugin. Choose from a range of projects including algorithmic music tools and compositions, collaborative HyperInstruments for web-based jamming, sound science devices and demonstrations, soft synths and virtual instruments.
- Liveplasma
- A music and movies visual exploration tool for discovering similar artists, movies or directors available through the Amazon.com catalog. Members can build their own visual recommendation maps. (Flash)
- MusicIP
- Discover music using the "Playground" interface that lets you search, listen and purchase music via a related/recommendation system. (Flash)
- Musiclens
- Unusual interface that lets you adjust 10 sliders to generate music recommendations based on user input criteria. Provides audio preview and link to purchasing point. (Flash)
- Musicovery : interactive webRadio
- Discover new music based on your mood, this free webradio let you browse music styles and epochs. Amazon shopping integration. (Flash)
- MyStrands Labs
- MyStrands develops behavior-based recommendation technologies, to help people discover and organize content, and share tastes with others. MyStrands Labs is where you can find technologies in the early stages of development, including music visualization interfaces, web mashups and recommendation maps.
- Novation XioSynth
- The XioPlayer web-interface lets you preview XioSynth sound patches. (Flash)
- TuneGlue Musicmap
- An interactive music discovery tool that uses data supplied by Last FM and Amazon. (Flash)
Music Discovery Lenses
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TwitterSweet Music: Tracking the Social Music Buzz on Twitter.com
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Tools for tracking music tweets on Twitter.com. A quick way to follow popular music channels, discover music related conversations, and find people with similar interests. From fans to friends, tunes to trends, TwitterSweet cuts through the noise to...
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The Music Matrix: Your Daily Music Discovery Mashboard
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An interactive web mashup and dashboard for discovering and sharing new music. Featuring music news feeds, social music tools, photos, videos and comments. Some of the things you can do here: Start your adventures in the digital music landscape with...
Games
Rock Band Game
Games
Fun sound and music based games.
- BBC Music Games
- A fun collection of sound toys and music games for children, grouped into themes of Compose, Play, Mix and Try. (Shockwave)
- Childrens Music Games
- A creative music environment for children to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.
- "Don't Worry Be Happy" Game
- Create your own version of the Bobby McFerrin song.
- Flash Music Games
- A collection of interactive music games for piano, guitar, drums, ear training, and other learning activities.
- Free Style
- Jump through a musical playing field to create a random, free-style jazz melody. (Flash)
- Match My Jam
- Match the artists with the samples, song titles, and the album or CD where it first appeared. As you rollover each match piece, you will be able to see what type of match element is beneath. Created by Kevin Ready. (Flash)
- Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel
- A musical dice game for composing a minuet.
Guitar Hero Game
Composition
Generative Composition
- Tune Toys
- A collection of web-based algorithmic composition toys, written by Tim Thompson. All of them make use of the KeyKit programming language for processing and producing MIDI music. The source code for most of the tools is viewable from each tool's page.
- pi10k
- This experiment attempts to convert the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence.
- Musical Algorithms
- Algorithms and Interactive Tools for Exploring Music Composition, Analysis, and Interdisciplinary Learning.
- Viragelic
- A random sound generator that creates ambient style electronic music. Three sound layers are superimposed onto a grid of squares, populated with icons in three shades of colour. Another three randomly moving squares with relating colours appear on the grid. The squares move through the maze-like matrix, triggering sounds assigned to icons of the same colour, kind of an automatic Pacman composition tool. Fresh soundscapes can be generated with a click of the mouse in seconds, each composition being entirely random. (Flash)
- Wolfram Tones
- Explore algorithmic music composition and generate unique musical ringtones for free download to mobile phones. You can select from a range of genres and intrumentation.
Brian Eno Works
Brian Eno, considered the founder of ambient music, has used generative techniques on many of his productions, starting with Discreet Music (1975) up to and including (according to Sound on Sound Oct 2005) his latest album 'Another Day on Earth'. His works, lectures, and interviews on the subject have done much to promote generative music in the avant-garde music community.
Browse works from the leading artist, producer and creative thinker.
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Music Sequencing
Create musical patterns, song arrangements and mix instrument levels.
- BBC 1X Sequencer
- Make your own tunes with this four track Sequencer. (Shockwave)
- BBC - One Music - Virtual Studio Sequencer
- A four track sequencer that lets you create a one-bar loop using a choice of drums, bass, synth, FX and melody samples.
- Beaterator
- A real-time 8 track music sequencer and sampler. Allows uploading of samples and saving of mixes as mp3 files. (Flash)
- Extrajetzt Composer
- Sequencer, drum computer and synthesizer package. (Flash)
- JamStudio.com - The online music factory
- An online music mixing and songwriting tool. Aarrange chords and loops, select instruments, to create basic backing tracks, karaoke songs, soundtracks & demo songs.
- Mack-o-Chalk Industrial Taiko-Drum Ensemble
- Create a mechanical sounding rhythm loop using a selection of metallic objects. (Flash)
- MIDI & Ringtone Music Sequencer
- An 8 track step sequencer with drums and instruments for creating your own MIDI polyphonic music and ringtones. You can use the Media-Convert online conversion tool to convert MIDI music to MP3 or whatever if your phone does not handle MIDI music.
- Pickledonion - Phase Toys
- A minimal 3 channel sequencer that lets you mix 6 seperate note pitches to create simple chords and melodies on a 1 bar loop. It uses a toy piano type sound. Right click to pause. (Shockwave)
- Punk-O-Matic Music Generator
- Simple drums, bass and guitar sequencer with a punk style. Caution! Not suitable for young children due to bad language. (Flash)
- Red Bull Music Labs Mixer
- This is a simplified version of the Ableton Live 3.0 digital music software. You can create songs up to 2 minutes in length which can be emailed to friends. (Flash)
- Sheeps Get Their Grooves On
- Create music using drums, bass and keyboard sounds over a 4 bar sequence. (Flash)
- Typorganism Visual Composer
- A graphical interface that lets you create a twelve second loop of music using either piano or a selection of percussion sounds. You can save your composition on the site or listen to other saved pieces.
- Zefrank : Sequencer
- Up to 22 sounds can be combined to create a looped section of music with adjustable BPM. (Flash)
Video: Beatmakers
Music Creation Software
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Remix
Toy Shop: Zizzle Zoundz
See the list of Portable Media Gadgets below for devices you can plug into Zoundz such as music players, etc.
Zizzle Zoundz
An interactive digital audio sculpture that uses movable pawn-like pieces on a base to create an infinite variety of original musical compositions accompanied by pulsing light shows. Other features include a jack for playing your iPod or MP3 through its built-in speakers, with light show entertainment. There also is an alarm clock; set it to wake up to your original composition! Runs on 4 AA batteries (order separately). Ages 5 years and up.
Amazon Price: $68.45 (as of 10/11/2008)
Video: Zoundz Demo
Cool New Music Toy!! Zoundz!
This is one of the coolest new products I've seen in along time. You move the pieces around and they glow and pulse to the music that you create. One of the pieces even lets you record your own music or voice. I really like the fact that you can add effects to the music, even the music you play from your ipod. It uses RGB LEDs triggered by Rfid tags to make all the music. It even has a talking clock!
Remix Environments
Multimedia environments and interfaces for remixing audio visual content.
- BBC 1X Mixer
- Mix tracks from a choice of five music genres. (Shockwave)
- BBC - One Music - Virtual Studio Mixer
- Mixing environments for Dance, Drum 'N' Bass, Garage and Indie music.
- Blob Productions
- Two interactive music consoles and a synthesizer. Lets you collaborate online, load and mix songs, explore sounds. (Flash and Shockwave)
- CreateBands.com
- Choose musicians to create a virtual band that you can jam with online. Loop based music with animated graphics of real people. Created by Paul Stroot. (Flash)
- EnterSongs
- Play live interactive synthesized music in the browser, mix together up to 16 sounds at once, create a playlist of songs using MP3, WAV, AIF, and other popular formats. Created by Kevin Ready. (Beatnik Player 2, Flash, RealPlayer)
- Flat Earth : Play Jammers
- Fun stone age cartoon characters you can jam along with using the mouse. Five songs to choose from. (Shockwave)
- iClip
- Uses graphics of the hands and feet as an interface. Click the fingers and toes to play the sound loops. Music by Lusine Icl. (Flash)
- Infinite Wheel - Dub City Rockers
- A collection of dub music mixing environments. Created by Jim Johnstone. (Flash)
- Interfazok
- Mix sound loops and visual clips using the mouse. (Flash)
- Juniper Blue Audio Toy
- Mandala style graphical interface that lets you remix pre-defined instrument samples using mouse clicks. (Flash)
- Littlecountry.net
- A collection of interactive musical animations. Fun DJ mixing environments for reggae dub, hip-hop, and other dance styles. (Flash)
- Looptracks
- An interactive music video that lets you edit the content as you move through it. Created by Conor O'Boyle. (Flash)
- Mouse Jam
- A collection of themed interfaces that allow you to jam to music using the mouse. Created by Clifford P. Walker & Dorian Reyes. (Quicktime)
- GameScene: MP3000 Rom1
- A music and video creation environment. Start by choosing one of five ROMs - (advance the Rom number in the URL to access directly). Each contains a different musical style that allows you to mix loops, record and playback. (Flash)
- NIO
- An interactive art work thats lets you mix a combination of 16 sound loops by using the mouse.
- One Soul Games : Music Machines
- Four themed interactive environments with loop based music mixers. The Medieval Music Mixer, The dirty punk anarchy machine, The Automachine, The indian shankar drum ganesh machine. (Flash)
- Pianographique
- A multimedia instrument that uses the computer keyboard to trigger audio visual samples. There are pre-recorded themes to remix or create your own using Continuum. French and English versions. (Shockwave)
- Radiophon-A-Tron
- BBC Dr Who, create your own version of the Doctor Who theme tune. (Flash)
- Rave Generator - Old Skool Fun
- A simple interface that lets you select and mix loops of Drums, Breaks, Bass, Leads and Vocal samples. Flash (1.25Mb).
- Remixatron
- A four track sequencer with a recordable scratchable fader. There are two songs available for mixing. (Shockwave)
- Resequenced
- Multimedia remix environment for the music of Jason Cluts. Allows you to resequence a selection of music loops. (Flash)
- Skop
- A selection of audio video remix tools including " I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives". (Flash)
- Sound 101 : Bad Vibes
- A four track mixer and sequencer with 8 horrible sound samples. Part of a project led by Prof. Trevor Cox of Salford University's Acoustic Research Center into what makes a sound unpleasant to hear. (Flash)
- Verizon Beatbox Mixer
- Create your own audio and video mix from signature riffs of top human beatboxers Rahzel, Click, Max B, Masai Electro and Butterscotch.
Video: AudioCubes Explained
AudioCubes Explained
An interactive explanation of how the Percussa AudioCubes can be used to control Ableton Live.
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Instruments
Toy Shop: Percussion Tubes
Blue Man Group Percussion Tubes
Amazon Price: $69.99 (as of 10/11/2008)
Inspired by the ever-popular Blue Man Group, these tabletop percussion tubes play drums and other instruments in a full octave range. Sound can be heard through internal speakers, headphones, or an external amplifier (not included). Percussion tubes are MP3-compatible, meaning you can create music on top of your favorite MP3 tracks. Includes Blue Man Percussion Tubes, two drumsticks and earphones. Requires 4 "AA" batteries (included).
Virtual Instruments
Interactive musical instruments and interfaces based on both traditional instruments and new creative designs.
- 314 Turntable
- A virtual turn table where you can mix your own beat.
- Actionist Respoke
- Unusual interface that's something between a sequencer and sound tamagotchi that can play sampled loops. Created by by michael janoschek and r? schl?, in cooperation with christian kahl / ralf bresser. (Shockwave)
- Akai MPC 2000
- Simple virtual instrument representation with 16 samples mapped to the percussion pads. (Flash)
- Apronus Piano
- A simple two octave piano keyboard that is played with the mouse. (Flash)
- Buckle Inc.
- A simple virtual drumkit with sound samples and a selection of patterns for demonstrating acoustical properties.
- Desktop Blues
- A fun application that lets you play music via a virtual blues guitarist. You can trigger a selection of acoustic guitar licks and vocal phrases using the mouse to create your own version of the blues. Turn the radio option on and you have a handy twelve bar blues backing track to jam along to in E major.
- Down Town Open Air
- Trigger rock guitar and vocal samples over a virtual rock band soundtrack. Similar to Desk Top Blues.
- EYE4U modular websynth
- Simply switch the six synth modules on and off. All sounds fit and play together, only the piano sounds require a little rhythmic skills to line up with the drums. (Flash)
- Granular Synthesizer
- Interface that allows you to experiment with granular synthesis. (Shockwave, click 'always allow' to any security warnings)
- Guitaresque: Online guitar toy
- A musical toy for guitarists to learn theory of music. (shockwave)
- Harry Partch's Instruments
- A virtual collection of real instruments designed by Harry Partch you can play and learn about. (Flash)
- Hobnox AudioTool
- A free electronic music studio that combines several virtual instruments. Save and load your work, collaborate with other users. A Timeline-Feature enables Sequencing/Automation. Includes modules for effect devices, synthesizer, drum computer, sequencer, sample editor. (Java).
- Intuitive Instruments for Improvisers
- A collection of virtual instruments traditional and computer based that can be explored using the mouse. Select the drum beater icon on the navigation bar to choose an instrument. (Flash)
- Ken's Virtual Drum Kit
- An image map of a real drum kit that lets you trigger percussion sounds using the mouse or computer keyboard. Created by Ken Brashear. (Flash)
- orDrumbox
- A free software drum machine for XP, Mac OSX, Linux. Online and downloadable versions are available. Pattern oriented, accepts user wav samples, unlimited tracks. (Requires Java)
- Pascal Ayerbe
- A collection of personal artworks from French multi-instrumentalist Pascal Ayerbe that allow you to explore images, sounds and invented instruments.
- Pianolina, the interactive Piano by GROTRIAN
- Play with the floating tones, create new atmospheric melodies and let yourself be fascinated by the charm of the Pianolina. The interface allows you to drop floating notes and chords onto a square work surface where they glide around creating interactive sounds. Pre-programmed compositions are supplied and you may further control playback parameters via a menu of options.
- PitchWeb
- A multiuser musical instrument created for the Cathedral Project. You play it by moving shapes that trigger sound samples. (Shockwave, Quicktime)
- PlayMusicBox
- A playful interactive MusicBox created by
Jin-Yo Mok in collaboration with Gicheol Lee. - Repercussion
- A collection of digital musical instruments for performance and exploration. Created by Carla Diana. (Flash)
- Springtails
- A colony of e-insects which react when touched. Touch the e-insects with your cursor and they catapult, entrap them in a spring and it chimes. This soundwork combines human interaction with autonomous behaviour. The springtails respond to both the cursor and each other, compiling their own sound compositon - this enables each performance to be unique.
- The Pate a Son
- A sound toy and compositional tool conceived to encourage musical experimentation. Drag instruments, switches, and transporter pipes from the conveyor belt to the checkerboard above to make music. Rotate the pieces. Choose a melody. Change pitch, tempo and volume to fine-tune your composition. Original concept and production by LeCielEstBleu.com. (Shockwave)
- The World is Our Sound Toy
- A collection of musical interfaces built from objects and things in the world around us. The virtual toys form a departure from metaphors commonly used in the design of music software. By using photographs of the Australian environment the user interface extends into the real world. Each toy is designed to encourage imagination and new ways of interpreting the environment around us. (Shockwave)
- Virtual Drum Machines at Audio Playground
- A large collection of recreated vintage drum machines. Also a couple of unusual keyboard instruments. Created by Joseph Rivers. (Shockwave)
- VirtualiToy.com
- Play free virtual drums and guitars online. Customize your drums with decals, custom colors, & backgrounds. Provides lots of free virtual toys for kids to play with online in an entire virtual toy store.
Video: Online Electronic Music Studio
Hobnox Audiotool Tutorial
A tutorial video of the Hobnox Audiotool, showing users how to create beats with our flash recreations of vintage synthesizers.
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Software Synthesizers
Science
Video: Rubens' Tube Experiment
The Rubens' tube, also known as the Standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics experiment demonstrating a standing wave. It shows the relationship between sound waves and air pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben's_Tube
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Rubens Tube physics experiment
Rubens Tube physics experiment. I didn't make this so please don't email me looking for the spec
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Sound Science
Explore the nature of sound, acoustics and instrument design with these interactive tools and demonstrations.
- Exploratorium Science of Music
- A collection of exhibits that let you play with music in new ways. (Flash)
- General Physics Java Applets
- Graphical demonstrations of waves and other science topics. Developed by B.Surendranath Reddy.
- Java Applets on Physics
- Provides several programs demonstarting Oscillations and waves. By Walter Fendt.
- Math, Physics and Engineering Applets
- Educational java applets to help visualize various concepts including acoustics, oscillations and waves. Developed by Paul Falstad.
- Resonata - A wave visualization machine you can play with
- This is a spring system, designed to demonstrate many of the universal features of waves. Created by Fergus Ray Murray. (Java applet) See also visualizations below.
- Martindale's Music Calculators
- A directory of music related calculators and reference tools. Other resources for acoustics, live performance and HI-Fi sound can also be found at the site. (Various Java applets, Flash, etc)
- Sound Lab
- Allows you to design your own object and render the sounds this makes under various interactions like hitting, plucking, and scraping.
- Spacesounds
- A multimedia presentation that lets you listen to sounds from space and the history of the space program. The site also has links to other sounds including; storm-sounds, whale-sounds, and simulations from the age of the dinosaurs. (Flash)
- The Virtual Flute
- A web tool for flutists and composers.
- Wim Swelden's Wavelet Cascade Applet
- Interactive tool for exploring wavelet theory.
Video: Binaural Recording Demo
Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes)
You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a lil bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work. Not a screamer not a prank! NOTE: I am not the maker of integrated original audio. Credit to me for converting into video and successfully uploading stereo quality clip at youtube. :p See this wikipedia entry for information about binaural recordings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording
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Auditory Illusions & Musical Paradoxes
Audio demonstrations involving perception and hearing.
- Audio Paradoxes
- MP3 audio demontrations of Shepard's ascending tones, Falling bells, Quickening Beat.
- Diana Deutsch's Musical Illusions
- Perceptual discrepancies.
- Exploratorium : Can you Find the Highest Note?
- Interactive presentation of three auditory illusions: The Shepard Scale, The Tritone Paradox, The Risset Scale. Created by students from the Center for Electronic Art. ( Shockwave)
- New Scientist: Five Great Auditory Illusions
- Auditory illusions can help us understand the workings of the brains - listen to five of the most striking examples.
- Shaken Matchbox Holophonic Illusion
- Mp3 audio demo of a shaking matchbox moving around your body (Headphones required). See also Sound Immersion below.
- Sound Immersion
- A Flash version of the matchbox surround sound recording (Headphones required).
- Tritone Paradox
- More on perceptual discrepancies.
Visualizations
Visual Representation
Projects involving visual senses and representations of sound and music. See also Commercial Developments and Demonstrations at the top of the page.
- ColorOfMySound.com
- An open experiment in Synaesthesia (mixing of the senses) that lets you assign colors to playing songs. Free registration allows you to upload audio files which also makes this a music promotion tool. Music can be browsed via categories and tags.
- Sonic Wire Sculptor
- Draw structures with the mouse to hear sounds generated in real-time. (Quicktime, JSyn plugin)
- The Shape of Song
- The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see the shape of any composition available on the Web. Created by Martin Wattenberg. (Java)
- The vOICe
- Allows you to draw an image using the mouse and immediately hear the corresponding visual sound being synthesized on the fly. You can view sound waves, sonify existing images, train for audiovisual synesthesia, perform on-line composing, make visual sound animations and create spectrograms (sonograms, sonagrams). (Java Applet)
- Whitney Music Box
- A musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book "digital harmony".
- Whitney Music Box Complex
- This interactive version of the Whitney Music Box uses a more complicated algorithm for the motion and generates the music in real-time using Midi. Requires a fast Windows computer and the FlashMidi plug-in available at the site.
Audio Visual Art & Design Resources
These links are useful for exploring interesting art and design sites that feature sound related archives, collections and galleries.
- Bossanovologia
- Gallery of Bossa Nova Album Covers.
- FindSounds
- Search for sound samples of toys.
- GUIdebook
- Graphical user interface gallery.
- Information Aesthetics
- A blog focusing on visual design and information aesthetics. Use the explore and search ntools to find sound and music related projects.
- Kiddie Rekord King
- A complete source of information on antique 78 rpm childrens records.
- Musical Prototypes
- A photoshop competition with inspirational image creations of weird and wonderful hybrid musical instruments.
- Show & Tell
- A collection of Crazy Album Covers.
- Soundart.html
- Seth Cluett's comprehensive listing of Sound Art resources including: Sound art parts, sound art exhibits, sound artists, sound art venues, sound art links pages/online communites, sound art magazines, radio, sound art books/bibs/misc, sound art syllabi.
- Toyadz
- Treasury of Vintage Toy Ads.
- Virtual Guitar Modeling System
- A graphic design tool that lets you create customized guitars based on standard guitar types.
- We Make Money Not Art
- The sound archives of the popular art, culture and technology website.
- Wikipedia Interactive Art
- Provides info and links to artists and related topics.
- Wikipedia Sound Art
- Information, topics and links related to Sound Art.
Collections
Music Toys on eBay
The latest bidding on eBay for all kinds of electronic music toys, including unusual retro, vintage and contemporary items often hard to find elsewhere.
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Sound-Toy Collections & Galleries
- FRIENDCHIP
- A collection of sound-oriented interactive toys.
- Fusion Flows: Sound Toy Gallery
- Sound and image merge in two interactive experiences that turn you into the composer. Provides links to other art works.
Editorial by Angus Leech. (Flash) - Generative.net
- A collaborative collection of digital artworks and online interactive experiments. The link page features a constantly growing list of links to generative artworks.
- Metalriffs.com Guitar Toy Museum
- A small picture gallery of electronic guitar toys.
- Nintendo ds music apps - remain calm: blog
- A list of recommended sound toys that are available for the nintendo ds platform.
- SoftForm Exhibition
- A gallery of works curated from an international selection of digital and net artists.
- Soundtoys.net
- A community for artists and space for the exhibition of audio visual projects.
Electronic Keyboards & Synthesizers
Musical toys, synthesizers and circuit bent instruments.
- Miniorgan.com
- A private collection of rare and vintage musical electronic toys, lost organs, damned keyboards, childish synthesizers, dusty voice transformers and singing calculators. Most of them are from the 70ies and 80ies. An interactive audio section lets you mix sounds from up to 8 pre-programmed toys.
- Moog Archives
- This website provides a glimpse into the history of MOOG, a leading Designer and Manufacturer of Electronic Music Instrumentation from 1953 to 1993. The pages are filled with rare, historic photographs and documents collected over the years by a former Moog employee.
- Synthfool - Vintage Synthesizer Archives
- A large photo/patch/schematics archive of vintage synthesizers and analog sound modules. You can find pictures of rare instruments and old manufacturer's brochures. The site also has a comprehensive collection of music technology links and vintage price lists.
- Synthmuseum.com
- An informative online museum of vintage electronic musical instruments, including Synthesizers and Drum Machines, both analog and digital. Provides historical overviews of main synth companies and design developments.
- WarrantyVoid
- Electronic sound toy and keyboard modification site (Circuit Bending).
- Wikipedia Software Synthesizer
- A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. It works like a common synthesizer, but is realized entirely in software.
- Wikipedia Toy Piano
- Excerpt: The toy piano is a musical instrument, made as a child's toy, but which has also been used in more serious musical contexts. The instrument was invented in Philadelphia in 1872 by a German immigrant named Albert Schoenhut.
Video: Bob Moog on Synthesizers
The Screen Savers: History of The Moog Synthesizer
Segments like this one are really what made TSS so great. Dr. Robert Moog explains his Moog synthesizer and the Etherwave Theremin, an instrument that you have to see to believe.
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Video: Remaking the Doctor Who Theme
Classic analog synthesis from the 1980s using the Yamaha CS80 and ARP Odyssey synthesizers.
Portable Media Gadgets
Portable media players and audio/video devices.
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Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder
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