The Royal Albert Hall attempted to pull off a fun April Fools’ Day prank this year about a fictional “Immersive Nokia 3310 Experience” supposedly happening in May, tapping into early 2000s nostalgia, but people were quick to catch on.
If you thought seeing Bruce Lee in ‘The Matrix’ was a trip, Will Smith’s new ‘Beautiful Scars’ music video is definitely a trip. Featuring rapper Big Sean, the sequence starts off by showing Will Smith taking both red and blue pills, leading to the behind the scenes-like
You’ve seen 8-bit Google Maps, now check out Linus Åkesson’s The Family Bass, a functional instrument made from a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and a 72-key Family BASIC keyboard. First, he had to create a ROM image program that allowed you to select a note with the D-pad of a controller, and then press a button to play it.
Sony’s unusual robotic hand exoskeleton won’t make you a skilled gamer, but it will help musicians, especially pianists, learn to play even faster by moving their fingers for them. The research team discovered that the wearable improved the finger speed of trained pianists after a single 30-minute training session.
OK Go used 64 iPhones in their new A Stone Only Rolls Downhill’ music video, and not in the way you might expect. Put simply, the handsets played a mosaic of 64 different videos, which, when combined, created one giant image.
Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, a student at Georgia Tech, finishing up his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics, has built an AI-powered robot violinist that can skillfully play songs. Why? The student already has over 200 album and film soundtrack credits to his name, so he decided to merge his two passions.
Mark Zuckerberg teamed up with T-Pain to produce a cover of Lil Jon’s 2002 crunk classic ‘Get Low’, explicit language and all. However, you won’t hear the Meta CEO yelling the worlds ‘Ok!’, ‘What?!’, or ‘Yeah!’, as the track has been turned into an acoustic ballad.
Photo credit: Malmö Live Konserthus
A robot skillfully played the cello alongside the Malmo Symphony Orchestra earlier this month in Sweden. We can see the arm smoothly glide a bow across the instrument’s four strings, while a 3D-printed appendage enabled it to manipulate the fretboard.
Udio kicked off the craze, and now, we have Suno Scenes, an AI feature within the company’s Make Music app that helps create unique songs from your favorite photos and videos, complete with music as well as lyrics.
Astronomers used Hubble Space Telescope data to visualize what starburst galaxy NGC 1569, located 10.96 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis, could sound like. This star factory creates them at a rate 100 times faster than in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.