Music Tech

Watch ODB and Eazy-E perform as holograms at Rock The Bells
By The Strut on September 9, 2013
This weekend’s Rock The Bells festival in Los Angeles brought holograms of ODB and Eazy-E to the lineup. ODB was reunited for a performance with...
College student creates new instrument, uses it to play Daft Punk songs
By The Strut on September 5, 2013
Loyola University student Kent Jenkins built his own instrument called Rimbatubes out of PVC pipes. From
Cardiologists discover listening to music improves heart health
By The Strut on September 3, 2013
A new study was presented at European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting in Amsterdam with the discovery that heart improving hormones are released when you...
Listen to Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ composed with Mario Paint
By The Strut on September 3, 2013
We’ve heard everyone from Florence Welch to Simon Pegg to a creepy man on a recorder cover Daft Punk’s Get Lucky. What we haven’t heard...
Video: El-P creates a beat from 3 random records
By Josh Morrissey on August 30, 2013
This is one of my favorite things I have seen in a while. Hyper-talented rapper/producer El-P went to a record store in Brooklyn and created...
Using old technology to create a farewell song
By The Strut on August 23, 2013
Musician James Houston used a bevy of old technology like floppy disk drives, a Commodore 64 and a SEGA Mega Drive to create a song...
Infographic: Who benefited from Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Control’ verse the most?
By The Strut on August 20, 2013
By now we all know about Kendrick Lamar calling out the rap world during his verse on Big Sean’s Control, but what was the digital...
Video: A beatboxer vs the modern day theremin
By The Strut on August 5, 2013
That’s not a theremin beatboxer Ryo Fujimoto is using to accompany his vocals, it’s a new motion control device called Leap Motion. From
Watch a short documentary about James Murphy’s 50,000 Watt soundsystem
By The Strut on August 2, 2013
James Murphy and 2ManyDJ’s have built a custom 50,000 watt soundsystem for their tour. From
A years worth of location data on one vinyl record
By The Strut on August 1, 2013
Artist Brian House has compiled a years worth of of his location tracking data and transformed it into a playable vinyl record. From