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Art Friday : Tony-B Machine - Flash Toy for Creating Early 90’s Techno/Electro

May 02nd, 2008

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Another electronic music toy, Tony-B is the brainchild of a French flash developer with the same name.

You get synthesized melodies, bass and percussion (snares, hi-hats, kickdrums) with some early 90’s techno/electro soundbites (try pressing R for that classic C+C Music Factory’s Everybody Dance Now sample) as well as some nifty EFX which you can activate via Street Fighter like controls (Down,Right,Left,Up) for the Thunder Break snare roll or (Up,Down,Up,Down) for Extreme Danger sirens.

The Tony-B machine boasts a very well-designed and intuitive interface where everything can be accessed either via the keyboard or the mouse (or both for optimal effect). Switch the instruments on and off by pressing the number keys, play the keyboard via the ASDFGHJKL; keys for the standard QWERTY keyboard layout (it also supports the AZERTY keyboards used in France and Belgium) and trigger the sound samples with the QWERTYUIOP keys.

Check out my 3 minutes track (2.90 MB) recorded with Audacity. It doesn’t exactly show off the full power of the Tony-B machine since my reflexes suck when attempting to control all the instruments, samples and the EFX simultaneously but it should give you an good idea of the style of audio generated by this marvellous little Flash toy.

Start creating your own track with the Tony-B Machine. You might want to read what each of the sound samples correspond to over at the official site before playing around with it.

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Art Friday : Spiky Babies Deluxe Series

March 07th, 2008

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A new series of the adorable Spiky Baby paper toys by Shin Tanaka is ready for download This set of Spiky Babies is the largest collection yet with a total of 38 designs illustrated by artists and graphic designers worldwide.

My top nine in ascending order.

Terry’s Factory - Reminds me of a Chinese zombie aka Jiang Shi

Bshit - Love the smiley face with the eyepatch

Hariken - A nice depature from the usual cute designs

Akira’s Factory - Love the colours and the multiple eyes

Akishi Nishida - Mmm… Watermelons

Kazuhiro Hino - Reminds me of the masks worn by Luchadores (more masks & luchadores over @ deadlicious)

Koraters

Mochiwo - I think my dear thoo2 will love this one and the one below

Nekonoko

The rest of the Deluxe series below.

© Shin Tanaka

Oh yeah, even the box template is also available for download

As the templates are “blindboxed” and randomly chosen when you click on the Open a Box! button at the download page on Shin Tanaka’s official site, be prepared to click for a long time to collect the entire series (or use a Flash disassembler like Flasm - read my earlier introductory article on Flasm)

Download the Spiky Baby Deluxe Series toys.

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Random Monday - Be Your Own One Man Band

March 03rd, 2008

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What do you get when you combine turntables, accordions, pianos and an assortment of drums together ?

Instead of the expected cacophony from the distinctively different sound of each instrument, the end result actually comes off as an infectiously toe-tapping, head-bopping soundtrack - I simply love the cheery carnival sounding clockordian and the machinegun clatter of cymbals (Loop 2).

My kind of band

While the loops for each instrument in Luke Whiitaker’s One Man Band has been carefully constructed and synchronized for each other, it’s still hard not to listen in disbelief when the sounds of contrasting instruments such as the clockordian (accordian), loop-o-lin (violin), piano and turntables actually meld so well together.

There’s definitely a limit to the number of tunes you can create with 12 ingeniously automated instruments and 24 audio loops but it’s still a lot of fun for a short break.

Build your own One Man Band or check out Luke Whittaker’s other works, his current project being Stigmatisation to raise awareness of HIV in Sierra Leone.

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Art Friday : Saiko - Cool Electronic Music Generator

February 01st, 2008

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A cool, easy to use application to those who like their music electronic, pulsating (and optionally bleepy ).

By adjusting sliders with complex names like VCF Env Inertia and Oscillating Mix, you get to create a myriad of electronic sounds that range from acidic (my 15 seconds sample with settings shown above - max out the resonance for an acid trip) to trancey stuff (my 15 seconds sample using settings below).

My favourite settings involve heavy basslines (my 15 seconds sample with above configuration).

The download below is the last publicly released version of Saiko - version 1.0 R9. The author, Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (Arguru), stopped development back in 2003 and will never complete since he unfortunately passed away in a traffic accident last June RIP Arguru.

Download Saiko 1.0 R9 from Aodix Arguru Software (the FMOD.dll in this package seems to be of an incorrect version - try downloading from here if it doesn’t work for you).

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Random Monday : Domo-kun Wallpapers & Clock Widgets

January 21st, 2008

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The lovable brown mascot for Japan’s NHK TV station, Domo-kun, has his (its?) own official website @ www.domomode.com - thanks to dear for reading about this in a local Chinese daily (the 19 Dec 2007 edition to be exact)

There’s three wallpapers for download as shown above as well as 10(!) different Javascript clock widgets for you to embed on your website. Time is set to the Japanese timezone which is GMT +09:00 (one hour ahead of SG time).