04.04.13
Troy Turner

Categories:
Cellphones
Music
Product Design

3 Comments

DJ Wiz

DJ Wiz

The Grand Wizard smartphone goes beyond the MP3 playing functionality of other phones, turning the user into a real life mixmaster DJ with turntables and everything! Sure, there’s an app for that… but this is way more fun! The portable mixing station makes it possible to manipulate and produce media using intuitive right and left controls, each dedicated to a track. Make your own remixes while you’re on the go or at any time you’re inspired!

0 Designer: Yu Hiraoka

03.21.13
Troy Turner

Categories:
Audio
Gadgets
Music
Product Design

3 Comments

Hands-On Audio

Hands-On Audio

With tons of features & straightforward functionality, Spotify is a great way to get the perfect tune for whatever mood you’re in at the moment. The Pick Up and Play concept explores adding a tangible element to the service, using a compact speaker and touch-screen cubes to harness all the Spotify functions. Shake em to mix things up, line em up to create a playlist, or even gift one to a friend as a customized mix-tape! Not the most portable option, but it’s a fun, interactive player that’s perfect on your desk or coffee table.

0 Designer: Roy Martens

02.11.13
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Music
Product Design
Technology

11 Comments

For The Love Of Drumming

For The Love Of Drumming

Ever caught yourself doing the air-drums in the middle of a song? Van Halen and WWRY get me to do that all the time. Well, the option of using a portable instrument like the Y-Drum is a good one, especially when it works out good for beginners. It is a mobile, accessible and easy to use; making the percussion practice even more fun.

0 Designer: Kévin Depape

08.30.12
Troy Turner

Categories:
Music
Product Design

2 Comments

Fool-proof Violin

Fool-proof Violin

Half the work in learning to play the violin is maintaining the correct posture while keeping a stable grip on the right finger positions. The WAVE electric violin uses a combination of tactile, braille-like indicators to train accurate finger positioning and a built-in accelerometer to ensure the musician is in proper form. If the violin senses the player is in the wrong position it will automatically shut off, forcing the musician to readjust. Be a virtuoso in half the time!

0 Designer: Jaewon Hwang

08.27.12
Troy Turner

Categories:
Audio
Music
Portable Audio
Technology

19 Comments

The Evolution of Headphones

The Evolution of Headphones

VOLVE Headphones merge innovative operation, minimalistic character & high-end technology to blur the boundaries between music and mind. Sure, they’re sleek and stylish, but what sets them apart is the transfer of play/volume functionality directly to the headphone from the MP3 player or other Samsung device. Volume can be adjusted by simply turning a rubber disc situated on the ear cups & play or pause is activated by a single push on the centerpiece, making them as intuitive to use as they are beautiful to look at.

0 Designer: Andreas Konradsen

07.20.12
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Music
Product Design
Technology

14 Comments

Musical Colors

Musical Colors

Imagine generating sound using colors instead of any conventional instrument! The Audible Colors project does just that! It is an audio-visual instrument where sound is generated based on the color detected by a web cam connected to a computer. Musical notes correspond to certain colors (red, green and blue). And just like the color wheel, when you mix the primary colors, the secondary colors produce different notes.

0 Designers: Hideaki Matsui & Momo Miyazaki

07.13.12
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Music
Product Design

6 Comments

Better Music in Wood

Better Music in Wood

Tinka-tune takes a very different approach towards music creation. The design interface hopes to create an honest link between the user and music using low-technology and timeless mechanisms. As Phil explains, “The concept’s prototypes focus on designing a musical note with a resonant + adjustable tone, and a simple modular mounting system.” The final design imbibes an educational value of composing music with tactile feedback, aided with color-coordinated keys and a starter song booklet. At the end of the day you get innately creative and visceral musical experience.

0 Designer: Phil So

07.10.12
Troy Turner

Categories:
Audio
Music
Product Design

6 Comments

Avant-garde Guitar Tuning

Avant-garde Guitar Tuning

Because guitars must be tuned each time before being played, designer Hans Kim felt this should be an emotional and more interactive experience than the one offered by current digital display tuners. In his design, the interaction consists of spinning the dial on the ‘open’ end of the tuner to choose the note the user wants to tune. The tuner then wobbles left or right depending on the accuracy of the note played, with 90 degrees being perfectly in tune.

0 Designer: Hans Kim

04.11.12
Chris Burns

Categories:
Audio
Lifestyle
Music

8 Comments

Triangle Towers for iOS Connected Sound

Triangle Towers for iOS Connected Sound

There’s always a place in our hears for another speaker design – and with the letter “L” as well as a couple of pointy triangles on your side, you’ll be set! Designer Morten Gronning Nielsen presents nostalgic technology with contemporary aesthetics in a radio made to bring the past through the future while it blasts some awesome tunes along the way. Here you’ve got the radio experience with a look and sound combination which completes the radio in a way you’ve never had before!

0 Designer: Morten Gronning Nielsen

03.12.12
Long Tran

Categories:
Music
Product Design
Technology

17 Comments

For Aspiring DJ's

For Aspiring DJ’s

The RSON8 is a touchscreen controller for aspiring DJ’s, talent required, although it does make mixing music a lot easier for noobs. The device has grooves where digital buttons appear allowing one to augment track(s) and levels. The screen also uses next generation tactile feedback substrates so you can literally feel the sliders. And if you’re still scratching your head as to how to pronounce it, try “resonate”. Hit the jump for a video.

0 Designer: Vibhas Jain

03.02.12
Troy Turner

Categories:
Music
Product Design

11 Comments

Touch Sensitive Digitar

Touch Sensitive “Digitar”

As the name indicates, the Touch Sensitive Guitar uses Touchskin surfaces in the neck, drum and wheel that allow users to effortlessly strum to their favorite tune. Aside from being easy to use, the guitar also includes a myriad of features including wireless linking to social media sites where you can see how you measure up to your friends and direct downloading of digital music tutorials for the built-in LED lighting guide.

0 Designer: Formquadrat

02.28.12
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Music
Product Design
Technology

3 Comments

Digital Blow Pipe

Digital Blow Pipe

Digitalization of music is a great step forward, but I also see how the notes get distorted when mimicking these wind instruments (saxophone, trumpet etc) via a computer. Digipipe offers a solution; it is fashioned as a whistle with sensors located behind the mouthpiece. Each blow into the mouthpiece measures the duration and strength of blowing mechanically and converts this to electronic signals. It then transfers the data via infrared light or Bluetooth to the computer or to the digital musical instrument, directly. Parallel and additional input via keyboard or touchpad is also possible, but nothing like doing it the original way!

0 Designer: Emami Design

01.26.12
Troy Turner

Categories:
Gadgets
Music
Product Design

8 Comments

Modular Maestro

Modular Maestro

Blu is a modern musical instrument that draws inspiration from the keyboard, re-imagining keys in a modular and flexible way. Much in the same way a child learns to build structures from toy blocks, they can learn to understand tonality and song composition simply by changing the position of the modular keys around the central unit to control pitch and timing of the notes. Its smart, colorful user interface makes learning music an exciting and memorable experience.

0 Designer: Eric Pautz

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