Otamatone: Maywa Denki announced product

MAYWADENKI brought you new cute musical instrument!

This cute toy is called "Otamatone", with a singing face and a NOTE shape, generate 8 notes with a variety of sound colors.




For more information, visit MAYWADENKI site.

Paper Drawing + Musical Instrument

Imaging create your own musical instrument in 10 seconds? Charlie North shows you how to do it!

Note Pad from Charlie North on Vimeo.

If you wanna know about how Charlie created this cool implementation, see here

Origami as Musical Instrument

[Fold Loud] is a project by my friend, Korean artist Joo Youn Paek.

" Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies..."

For Video & project information, please visit her project site.

Making music with portable game console

We've seen the co-project by Nintendo NDS with Korg: DS-10, a great portable synthesizer with touch screen interface.



How about PSP? is there anything similar like that? Today I discover this:

Beaterator

Organ Player- Retro Style

When I watched this youtube video for the first 5 seconds, I thought it's a comedy with fake player and music, or they tried to make jokes with band; But, IT'S AMAZING! These girls really can play!

Music from everyday things

talian artist Diego Stocco makes sound from everyday things. After his previous work "Music From Sand" (as below), he created another work which is Green, Music From Tree:

MUSIC FROM SAND:

Diego Stocco - Music From Sand from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

MUSIC FROM TREE:




This is how he created the sound:

"In the garden of my house there's a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. "

More info about Diego Stocco