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Updated June 14, 2011

 

 

* A low-cost pressure-sensitive multi-touch development kit, consisting of a hardware input surface and accompanying software, intended for DIY experimentation and development: www.sensibleUI.com.

 

• The web site for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), an annual conference on alternate music interfaces.

 

• The Create Digital Music web site, a great webzine with daily postings on new music software & hardware, rumors, product development, DIY, events, people, and just about everything digital music with a refreshing bias toward new & interesting ideas. It's intelligent, well-writtten, graphically interesting, well-researched, not dumb and not at all snobby. I find myself checking in more and more frequently.

 

• The home page for Bill Buxton, one of the world leaders in the field of human-computer interface, with lots of technical information.

 

• John Pascuzzi's Oddmusic.com site is a wonderful online museum of creative, unique and odd musical instruments from around the world, primarily mechanical inventions.

 

• Bark Hopkin’s Experimental Musical Instruments site, containing lots of information on odd and unique acoustic or electrified acoustic instruments.

 

• SkyLight's Imaginative Instruments YouTube page, containing many videos of odd and interesting musical instruments.