#tetrafol

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(ALMOST) A VIDEO PER DAY

TETRAFOL

[freaksandbeats-blog]

So Good by Fol Chen

[vaomnivore]

Received notice in my e-mail last night that Fol Chen has shipped off my Tetrafol. Along with the e-mail came these photos of the always anonymous band member, Samuel Bing, hand-assembling each Tetrafol. After you check out the photos, be sure to follow Fol Chen on Facebook. With a band that has curated death-metal tribute concerts to themselves and invented their own instruments, who knows where they'll go next?

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[vaomnivore]

I hope mine defies the laws of gravity with as much ease as this one! So mysterious!

Also, a new Tetrafol-enhanced track, "Back on Kent" is available at Souncloud via The Fader. 

[heartmusicgroup]

LA’s Fol Chen have teamed with legendary minimalist interface designers Monome and the Echo Park art space Machine Project to create the Tetrafol, this wooden, pyramid-shaped device that plays/manipulates sound based on how it’s moved, as demonstrated in the video above. What’s just as crazy, if not even more so, is that the song below, “Back on Kent,” was composed on this buttonless space thing. And it’s really good! They only made 100 Tetrafols and they cost a hundred bucks, but if you buy one it comes pre-loaded with the stems from “Back on Kent” and some other Fol Chen songs/sounds, plus the software is open source so you can jack in and upload your own stuff and jiggle it around like it’s god’s Yak Bak.

Download: Fol Chen, “Back on Kent”

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/07/fol-chen-invent-an-instrument/#ixzz1fsRx4G2r

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[vaomnivore]

In about 2 to 4 weeks, I'll be the proud owner of a Tetrafol. "What's a Tetrafol?", you ask. The Terafol is a musical instrument created by the Los Angeles-based art/music group, Fol Chen with the help of Monome and the Machine Project. Each Tetrafol comes loaded with mini-compositions created by the band, which you manipulate by moving the instrument. Almost like a wooden tetrahedon Theremin...I think.

Hear what a Tetrafol sounds like in the exclusive Fol Chen song "So Good". Read more about it at Wired and be sure to pick yours up. Or buy one for your musically-inclined relative(s) for Christmas. With a very limited run of only 100 being produced by Machine Project, you might want to act fast.