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Innovative Digital Instrument Lets Disabled Musicians Make Music With Their Eyes
A new digital instrument is empowering disabled musicians and students to create music with their eyes. The assistive technology is called the EyeHarp, and it pairs with eye and head trackers so that players can control melodies—including chords, arpeggios and pitch—with only the smallest of movements. This feature makes EyeHarp uniquely accessible to players with all kinds of physical and mental disabilities, in therapy, teaching and performance settings. The technology is also adaptable to each user’s skill level and can change between the tones of more than 20 instruments, including piano, flute, trumpet and bass guitar. Watch it at work below, played by 11-year-old Joel Bueno. Recommended Articles According to founder Zacharias Vamvakousis, the idea for the EyeHarp wa...
Papoose ft. 2 Chainz, Remy Ma, Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne “Thought I Was Gonna Stop Remix,” Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J ft. Project Pat “Backseat” & More | Daily Visuals 1.27.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Papoose and Remy Ma in the same music video, but today the happily married rappers finally get together in the same visual and bring some of their famous peers along for the ride. Linking up with 2 Chainz, Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne for the remix clip to “Thought I Was Gonna Stop,” Pap and Remy drop all the bars in the visually entertaining video filled with CGI effects and colorful backdrops. We lowkey surprised they haven’t dropped more cuts together. Speaking of CGI, Wiz Khalifa uses quite a bit of it in his Project Pat assisted visuals to “Backseat” which uses animation to delight the eye while Wiz and Project pleases the ears. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Berner featuring Cozmo, Rubi Rose, and mo...
The Cool Kids Announce New ‘Before Sh*t Got Weird’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anthony Pidgeon / Getty The Cool Kids began their journey in music in the early part of the 21st Century and became part of a select group of Hip-Hop acts that went on to influence others within the genre to great effect. The duo of Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish will return to the masses this year with the first of a three-album release rollout titled Before Sh*t Got Weird dropping early next month. After initially meeting on pioneering social media network Myspace in 2005, Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish released a number of acclaimed works starting in 2007. The duo also enjoyed successful solo careers respectively and blazed trails for other so-called “Blog Era” rappers that they’re largely associated with. Amid Sir Michael Rocks’ prolific per...
HHW Gaming: We Can’t Wait To Pick Up The Sticks For These Video Games In 2022
Source: Guerrilla Games / Horizon Forbidden West 2021 was a solid year for gaming, 2022 could possibly go down as one of the biggest years ever thanks to these video games dropping. Last year was our first full one with Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X. We didn’t get a lot of games, BUT we got enough to carry us through 2021. But the ball has dropped, and we are in 2022, and this year could shape up to be fantastic for gamers. Just in February alone were getting FOUR big games, and with a sprinkle of potential greatness throughout the year, that could make this year a significant one in the next-gen era. Hip-Hop Wired decided to comprise a list of the games WE (keyword WE) are excited to play on our PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. So if you have an...
College Student Busted For Smuggling Guns Into NYC
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Andy Kiss / Getty A 23-year-old college student went from the Dean’s List to the judge’s bench after facing more than 300 felony counts related to trafficking dozens of guns into New York City. Bronx native Shakor Rodriquez is accused of allegedly selling more than 70 guns, mostly loaded, to an undercover NYPD officer over the course of a year and a half, the New York Post reports. He is charged with criminal sale and criminal possession of a weapon, according to release from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. Rodriguez, a student at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, reportedly maintained a 3.5 GPA and made the school’s Dean’s List while he was reportedly smuggling guns into the Bronx and Manhattan’s Lower East Side via duffle bags ...
Benny the Butcher Announces Tana Talk 4, Taps J. Cole for “Johnny P’s Caddy”: Stream
Benny the Butcher has announced his new album, Tana Talk 4, and shared its lead single, “Johnny P’s Caddy” featuring J. Cole. Stream the song below. The album, a follow-up to 2018’s Tana Talk 3 and the two mixtapes that preceded it in 2004 and 2009, is produced by The Alchemist and Daringer. Though no release date has been revealed as of yet, Tana Talk 4 will arrive sometime later this year. Its lead single, meanwhile, takes its sentimental title from the car the rapper’s dad owned when he was a child growing up in his native Buffalo. On the track, Benny lays down a rapid-fire autobiographical verse before tossing the mic to J. Cole. Advertisement Related Video “This ain’t my story ’bout rags to riches/ More ’bout how I mastered physics,” he spits in the opening verse. “In the game I used ...
Kid Rock Threatens to Cancel Concerts Where Vaccine Mandates Are Enforced
When Kid Rock first announced his “Bad Reputation Tour,” I jokingly referred to it as the “Superspreader Tour,” which sent the Bawitdaba stans into a tizzy, because god forbid one questions Mr. Colostomy Bag’s attention to health and safety. Well, lo and behold, Robert Ritchie is now threatening to cancel concerts on his upcoming tour if venues dare to enforce vaccine mandates. In a video posted to Facebook, Kid Rock assured fans that he and his team did extensive research and are confident that they hadn’t booked a gig at a venue with an existing mandate; and if they had, that the mandates “will be done… by the time we’re going to get to your city.” “If they’re not,” Kid Rock continued, “you don’t have to worry, you’ll be getting your money back — because I won’t be showing up either! If ...
LipsyBaby – Fokus
Check out this brand new music from LipsyBaby titled “Fokus”. LipsyBaby is a Nigerian artist with a great passion for music and has contributed in his way to Afrobeat music. He drops a fresh new song titled “Fokus“. The new record “Fokus” is an impressive tack from LipsyBaby and is dedicated to his fans. He has dropped songs like “Ada“, “Hey Mama“, “Soke” and his most recent song “Kilometre” is a cover of Burna Boy’s track “Kilometre“. Listen, enjoy and share LipsyBaby – Fokus below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/LipsyBaby_-_Fokus_NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download
Mstruff ft Bhadboi OML – Sunshine
Check out this brand new extended play from mstruff titled “Sunshine” out now. Nigerian fast-rising artist, Mstruff drops yet another music piece titled “Sunshine” teams up with Bhadboi OML. The new record “Sunshine” is the artist’s first track for the year and it is an excellent afrobeat melody. Mstruff has other amazing songs like, “Over You“, “My Dear“, “Different” and more. Listen, enjoy and share Mstruff ft Bhadboi – “Sunshine” below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mstruff-featuring-Bhadboi-OML-Sunshine-featuring-Bhadboi-O.mp3 Download
PAUL STANLEY Was ‘Devastated’ When GENE SIMMONS Got To Sing ‘God Of Thunder’ On ‘Destroyer’
In a major interview discussing KISS‘s classic “Destroyer” album, Paul Stanley admitted that he had a really hard time dealing with producer Bob Ezrin‘s decision to give the Stanley-penned classic song “God Of Thunder” to Gene Simmons to sing. “Let’s put it mildly,” Stanley says in the new issue of Rock Candy magazine. “It was crushing and devastating. We’d understood and agreed that the role of the producer on ‘Destroyer’ was to have final say and make decisions. When I played ‘God Of Thunder’, Bob immediately said, ‘Oh, that’s great. That’s for Gene.’ I was just devastated. The idea of a song so quickly being passed off from me to someone else… It was difficult, and it remain...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Says EDDIE VAN HALEN’s Second Wife ‘Moved Out’ Of Their House ‘A Few Years’ Before His Death
Eddie Van Halen‘s ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli discussed her new book, “Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today”, during a recent appearance on QFM96‘s “Torg & Elliott” radio show. Bertinelli reflected on the special relationship she had with her late ex-husband, saying they were still on good terms when they split two decades ago. “I pull things apart very, very gently, or at least I try to,” she said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “There was never a lawyer. We had a mediator. We still lived together when we finally said, ‘We just need to move apart,’ until I found a home. And Ed was the first person to look at the home I live in now to make sure that we both felt that it was close enough to his house t...
AMORPHIS Drops Music Video For New Single ‘On The Dark Waters’
Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will release their fourteenth studio album, “Halo”, on February 11, 2022 via Atomic Fire Records. The official music video for the LP’s latest single, “On The Dark Waters”, directed by Pekka Hara, can be seen below. Lyricist Pekka Kainulainen comments: “I got the idea to reverse the direction of the Tuonela stream — Tuonela is the realm of the dead in Finnish mythology. So I started writing from the moment of death… And death was not the end, but the beginning.” In the past, mythology and legend took the role of today’s pop culture: Stories and a set of values uniting us by giving us a voice and a tapestry on which we can find each other and identify with something. By weaving the tales...
