Because why not squeeze a little good old-fashioned shredding into even the day’s most mundane activities, David Neevel developed a way to use his guitar to write out an email. Using a Roland snyth guitar pickup, Neevel sends MIDI data into an optoisolator circuit, an Arduino, a relay board, and finally into the “brains” of an old keyboard, so that each note triggers a different keystroke rad! Via Nerdcore.
Here's a sublime little video of a musician named Julian Corrie playing his guitar and singing in an empty swimming pool. That guitar, however, is controlling an old floppy disk drive via MIDI, and there's a keyboard and drum machine connected to a SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, and a…
Aspiring noise-rock shredders would do well to head to Other Music on October 28, when former Sonic Youth guitarist and current solo artist Lee Ranaldo will be giving a free clinic on the instrument. He is a very good guitar player. I'm thinking about going. The ads for the clinic…
The brilliant acoustic guitarist Kaki King is taking to Kickstarter to fund her next project, an audiovisual performance that will turn her guitar into a canvas for vibrant projections. A technique called projection mapping -- which displays images on a particularly shaped surface, and only that surface -- turns King's…
