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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: CurAudio / DocuMP3 

A collection of audio content from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web.

Featuring a 2004 talk from Notcon called “100 Years of the Computer Artscene”, DJ Food’s documentary-in-mixtape-form “Raiding The 20th Century”, Delia Derbyshire’s “Dreams” which feature narrations of peoples dreams with her unique audio style, and “Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 - 1984 Part 1” by Fluorescent Grey, a mix of electronic music created between that period, cut-up, and reconstructed into something contemporary.

You can check all of this out at Rhizome here

Loop Waveform Visualizer

Trippy browser-based music visualizer. Drag and drop an MP3 file and interact with your mouse. Can only work, though, with Google Chrome.

From Create Digital Motion:

Los Angeles-based developer Felix Turner of Airtight Interactive shares The Loop Waveform Visualizer. Tested for use in Google’s Chrome, it’s powered by two cross-platform, cross-browser, HTML5-associated technologies, WebGL and the Web Audio API. Give it any MP3 (you can even drag and drop right into the browser), and it’ll give you dancing, geometric visuals.

More info about the project at Create Digital Motion here
You can try the music visualizer in your Chrome browser here

The Wub Machine

Upload an MP3 and it will remix it, either as Dubstep or Electro House. Created by Peter Sobot:

The Wub Machine was a great little auto-remixer project - some audio hackery in Python to make a neat script. Unfortunately, I can probably count on one hand the number of people who *actually* downloaded the script and tried it on their own songs. So, I decided to make it into a web app. (tl;dr: go try out the site now!)

I’ve tried it, and posting the results below. I used a chiptune song, one that was originally used in a ZX Spectrum game called Cybernoid. Its beepy, it was a small file (and … er … it was there on my desktop). Here is how it sounds:

Cybernoid - The Fighting Machine - Title Music by Prosthetic Knowledge

Here is the ‘Dubstep’ remix:

Cybernoid - Dubstep Version (Wub Machine Remix) by Prosthetic Knowledge

And here is the ‘Electro House’ remix:

Cybernoid (Wub Machine Electro Remix) by Prosthetic Knowledge

It works really well, although I’m sure proper electronic musicians are not going to lose sleep over this. Fun to mess around with. I didn’t try anything with vocals, but I’m sure it would be effective in the Electro-House style.

You can download the final track or upload it to SoundCloud - a SoundCloud list can be found here

Otherwise, try it yourself here: http://the.wubmachine.com/

Neural presents Cosmos (Downloadable mix) via MeatSkull

… There’s no conformists here. These artists think nothing of pushing boundaries, processing tones, flipping samples, producing sonically satisfying sketches, even songs with a traditional structure. delve some more into the work of the artists listed below, your ears will thank you.” – Neut

01 Flying Lotus ‘intro/a cosmic drama’
02 Gonjasufi ‘ancestors’
03 Harmonic 313 ‘quadrant 3′ / Obba Supa ‘the last clouds of the cosmics’
04 Autechre ‘iris was a pupil’
05 The Drift ‘gardening, not architecture (Four Tet remix)’
06 Obba Supa ‘cosmic blast’
07 Flying Lotus ‘zodiac shit’
08 Flying Lotus feat Gonjasufi ‘testament’
09 Reptiles ‘floating’
10 The Marcia Blaine School For Girls ‘kamara debagging’
11 Kelpe ‘waval gust’
12 Boards Of Canada ‘turqoise hexagon sun’
13 Know-U ‘triptych’
14 The Simonsound ‘moon rocks’

LINK

MP3 Player with pull-out piano via Yanko Design

Most digital players come with an array of bizarre functions, some essential and some of them frivolous. If bizarre is the name of your game, then I’m sure you will appreciate the Piano Silhouette, an MP3 player that comes with a roll-out piano keyboard. So you can listen to music and make some too! For now it only allows you to play along with the music, kinda like reverse karaoke. *But what will be really kickass is if it allows you to record compositions directly to the player.

Designer: Jia Peng

Link for more photos and info