timbap digital DJing

July 30th, 2008

Timbap is a platform-independent application for augmented DJing. It was developed by students and assistants of the University of Ulm (Germany). It provides a rugged tangible interface for browsing your music collection and manipulating playback by scratching, pitching, skipping etc. Like many others it is based on an acoustic timecode signal recorded to vinyl records. In contrast to existing digital solutions however, it completely releases the DJ from mouse, keyboard and monitor. Instead it relies on physical interaction with the standard club turntable only.

It still sounds quite strange, right? So basically it is a projected video interface for selecting mp3’s. Maybe this video will make it all clear to you.
Guessing from the amount of student DJ projects, there are a lot of bedroom DJ’s among the students out there.

found at MAKE: Blog

Yuri Suzuki

June 28th, 2008

Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese product designer and electronic music artist living in London. Here are 3 projects by him.

Sound Chaser
A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records.

Sound Chaser by Yuri Suzuki

Sound Chaser by Yuri Suzuki

Sound Chaser by Yuri Suzuki

Prepared Turntable
A turntable that focuses on actively composing and playing music.
This record player has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader.
This is an analogue answer for the digitalized DJ.

Prepared Turntable by Yuri Suzuki

Finger Player
I guess that the video and the pictures explain everything.

Finger Player by Yuri Suzuki

Finger Player by Yuri Suzuki

Attigo TT

May 23rd, 2008

The Attigo TT is digital DJ setup designed by Scott Hobbs, an Innovation Product Design student from the UK. There are already a few mp3 DJ mixing systems out there, but his is a little different. He didn’t use any breakthrought technology, just 2 touchscreens to manipulate a visualisation of audio files. He used Flash for the interface and Max/MSP to control the sound files. He has a lot of documentation on this project on his website. Honestly, I don’t think that it’s very innovative, but well done anyway. Hey it’s a functional prototype afterall.

DJ Picture Disk

May 16th, 2008

Reuben Sutherland printed some short video clips on vinyl, just a few frames. Then he plays them with his turntable and films it again to use in his VJ work. The effect is quite good. VinylVideo is some other project where they really encoded video in the vinyl grooves, even more impressive.

Explicit Content Only

April 23rd, 2008

PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT ONLY

I’m a true ni9e / F.A.T. fanboy, here is his next project: Explicit Content Only, a vinyl album. On side A you can hear a curse words only version of N.W.A.’s classic album Straight Outta Compton. On the B side is the Explicit Content Only version of Eazy-E’s ‘Eazy Duz It’. You can of course buy it or download the mp3’s. Or even better, watch it spin.

Livraison

November 21st, 2007

livraison.jpgSo what is this?
A turntable with a garbage bag on it.
Part of the ‘Livraison’ photo series.
Another project by Maurice Scheltens.

Colorsound

October 8th, 2007

colorsound.jpgI guess that the picture and the project title are quite self-explaining.
‘Colorsound’ by Alvin Aronson.

German DJs and their living rooms

October 1st, 2006

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This is the living room of Lawrence, you can find more pictures of german DJs their living rooms here.

motor turntable

September 29th, 2006

laner.jpgAlexander Laner modified a 6 cylinder sportscar motor with a special gearbox to drive a turntable at 33 RPM. The result is an extraordinary soundscape of motor sounds and the record playing.

TTM

September 5th, 2006

TTM - Turntablelist Transcription Method is what we have been waiting for, it’s basically a website that visualizes DJ scratches. It has tons of information for all you turntablelists out there.

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