Here's an interesting alternative to tossing your old iPod into a recycle bin: Follow the lead of Norwegian avant garde musician Espen Sommer Eide and turn it into a kind of musique concrete instrument. Eide's "Slattberg" combines an old iPod running Linux, a couple of chunks of open-source software, an old loudspeaker and amp and a big ol' crank.
The result is a contraption that works sort of like a hurdy gurdy and sounds like the entire Sonic Youth catalog played in unison on a public library record player. The instrument will make its public debut later this month at a modern music festival in lovely Bergen, Norway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krW_mFZwMKE Crank + Linux iPod + Pd = Deconstructed Norwegian Folk Music [create digital music]
