9 days left to donate to Culprate's Indiegogo.com campaign! This campaign is raising money to help fund a new Culprate experimental album in the vein of his classic Colours album from 2011. Info below:
Culprate : An Indiegogo Campaign Video from Tilted Audio/Visual on Vimeo.
Coming later this year from OTO Machines, the makers of Biscuit, the Bim Bam Boum Effects Boxes:
"OTO Machines announces 3 new FX boxes:
BIM - Poetic Repeater
12-bit delay (up to 2 seconds in stereo) with modulation (several waveforms available), separate hipass & lowpass filters for the delay signal and the feedback path, extra FXs (Reverse, Flanger, Dual Head, Distortion,...).
True 12-bit converters, filters, compander & feedback paths are analog for a very warm and grainy sound.
TAP and FREEZE function. Delay can be synced to MIDI Clock.
BAM - Space Generator
Digital reverberator inspired by the early 80's 16-bit units (EMT250, Lexicon 224,...). Several algorithms including Halls, Rooms, Space, weirdos, springs, resonators...
Predelay is up to 1 second. A "Drive" pot let you distort the input of the reverb.
BOUM - Warming Unit
Analog Compressor with tube emulation, octave, soft and hard distortion, followed by a 3 mode-2 pole Biscuit filter.
The compressor have Mode, Attack and Release settings.
An envelope generator (normal or inverse) let's you create envelope filters or envelope levelers.
The distortion circuit is specially designed for synths, loops, drums,...and keeps the dynamic of the signal.
All units have stereo I/O, MIDI input (CCs for all parameters, Beat Clock, Pgm Change), true hardware relay bypass, 36 user presets.
Size is 145 x 145 x 60 mm. 2 lines of 8 white LEDS for displaying parameters, preset number, input vu-meter...
Price for each unit will be about 325 euros (excluding VAT).
Release is planned for 2014 Q4."
15 year old inventor Kelvin Doe builds radio station from discarded electronics in Sierra Leone:
"15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.
Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the "Visiting Practitioner's Program" at MIT. THNKR had exclusive access to Kelvin and his life-changing journey - experiencing the US for the first time, exploring incredible opportunities, contending with homesickness, and mapping out his future."
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