At first glance, the Renault Sound Truck appears normal, but step inside, and you’ll find a full recording studio. Based on the Renault Master van, this vehicle was created as part of the Give Me 5 CSR initiative designed to provide a springboard for young rap enthusiasts and make music production accessible to all.
Bastl Instruments’ OUTSIDIFY app basically uses your iPhone’s microphone and speaker to explore everyday sonic worlds happening around the device. You’ll be able to create feedback, manipulate resonances, use your mouth as a resonant filter, capture the impulse responses of your cup or wine glass and even the metal bars at a construction site.
Following up on the popularity of the Green Noise ASMR playlist, LEGO decided to create an entirely new genre of music called Rhythm & Bricks. Think of it as lo-fi music consisting of the iconic sounds of LEGO bricks fused with the instrumentation and artistry of musicians like Tom Misch.
Not just any minivan, the Toyota Sienna Remix is a full-fledged DJ booth on wheels, complete with a 60-speaker sound system, high-resolution video screen, and LED lighting. To make this happen, the rear liftgate door was replaced with swingout doors, while the roof panel in the center had to be removed entirely.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink recently received FDA approval for human trials, while neuroscientists from UC Berkeley have already managed to reconstruct a Pink Floyd song purely from brain recordings. They achieved this by recording the activity of electrodes placed on the brains of patients being prepared for epilepsy surgery.
MusicGen is fun to play around with, but the all-new Meta AudioCraft takes generative AI to the next level. This tool lets you easily generate high-quality audio as well as music from text using three models: MusicGen, AudioGen and EnCodec. AudioGen was basically trained on public sound effects and can generate audio from text prompts.
It’s not official yet, but early reports claim that Post Malone has bought the world’s only Magic the Gathering ‘The One Ring’ card for a reported $2.6-million USD. A video was posted on social media by Brook Trafton who says that when he found the card, ‘the first person who came to mind was Post Malone’.
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Midjourney AI can be used for many things, including this Coracle Music Festival video. VFX specialist Rufus Blackwell wanted to fuse the image quality of Midjourney with his tool set by first extracting key frames from the footage he shot of a beach festival in Vietnam.
This LEGO Ideas Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus Multi-Player set by Megragadó Gladiátor Ezredes needs a few thousand more votes to become a reality. In the real world, this device features Wi-Fi connectivity to allow you to wirelessly play music from a PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet, while this brick version consists of 2,628-pieces with a removable USB stick.
Photo credit: Courtney Hill
This limited edition Google Pixel Fold Hip Hop 50 smartphone was sent to 400 people that are a part of the company’s #GiftFromGoogle program including fashion photographer Nestor Pool and filmmaker Courtney Hill. The bundle also includes a working Victrola portable record player, Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro as well as a Mass Apeal vinyl box set with five 45RPM records.