Source: http://www.springwise.com/entertainment/app-enables-musician-control-concert-lighting-sound-crowds-smartphones/

Dan Deacon is taking over the smartphones of fans at his live performances to turn them into part of the show.

Fans attending a concert on the experimental artist’s current tour, which is promoting his recent album America, can download the app from the App Store and Google Play before they head to the venue. When the show starts, all phones running the app can be controlled using sonic prompts – in much the same way as the Chirp app we recently covered. The musician can then synchronize the crowd’s phones to display the same color and make the LED lights flash in time with each other as part of the light show. Perhaps most interestingly, the smartphones can also be made to emit sound, becoming an extra instrument for the musician to play.

The app offers a new way for the audience to become a part of the show – increasing engagement – and also exorcizes the stigma attached to fans holding their phone up at a concert.

Source: http://www.springwise.com/entertainment/app-enables-musician-control-concert-lighting-sound-crowds-smartphones/

Source: http://www.booooooom.com/2012/09/05/made-of-imagination-homemade-instrument-submissions/

Drum Phil is an analogue drum sequencer built from a modified reel to reel tape player. Paper disks can be played with preprogrammed rhythms or the stylus mounted tape heads can be removed and used to manually tap out beats by touching the coloured dots. The data stored on credit cards and train tickets etc is what creates the sound.
Created by Ally Mobbs – Kyoto, Japan

Source: http://www.booooooom.com/2012/09/05/made-of-imagination-homemade-instrument-submissions/

Source: http://ubu.com/film/alchemists.html

The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create 'new kinds of sounds'. The Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.

There are interviews with composers from the Workshop, as well as musicians and writers who have been inspired by the output. Great archive footage of the Workshop and its machinery is accompanied by excerpts of the, now cult, TV programmes that featured these sounds.

The Alchemists of Sound (2003)
Duration: 60 minutes

BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Director: Roger Pomphrey

Cast:

Oliver Postgate ... Narrator (voice)
Mark Ayres ... Himself
Milton Babbitt ... Himself (archive footage)
John Baker ... Himself (archive footage)
Desmond Briscoe ... Himself
David Cain ... Himself
Wendy Carlos ... Himself (archive footage) (as Walter Carlos)
Malcolm Clarke ... Himself
Delia Derbyshire ... Herself (archive footage)
Maddalena Fagandini ... Herself
Brian Hodgson ... Himself
Peter Kember ... Himself
Paddy Kingsland ... Himself
Roger Limb ... Himself
Dick Mills ... Himself
Robert Popper ... Himself
Peter Serafinowicz ... Himself
Adrian Utley ... Himself
Frazer Hines ... Jamie McCrimmon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Jones ... The Book (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wendy Padbury ... Zoe Heriot (archive footage) (uncredited)
Patrick Troughton ... The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Source: http://ubu.com/film/alchemists.html