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From The Desk Of OK Go’s Damian Kulash: Thingamagoop

OKGoThis past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos and an eventual split with the label and the creation of Paradacute Records. But even after all the dust settled, the music is still stuck in our heads—because OK Go definitely still has it. Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky brings us little nuggets of unbridled optimism set to catchy pop beats with Damian Kulash’s funky falsetto soaring overhead—and, in typical OK Go fashion, some of the most awesome videos ever made. OK Go is taking time between dates on its worldwide tour supporting the LP in order to guest edit magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with Kulash.

Thingamagoop

Kulash: This is the world’s simplest but most expressive synthesizer: a single analog oscillator with the pitch controlled by a light sensor. It’s a triumph of interface design: endlessly fun to use, infinitely variable and requiring no skill whatsoever. You just put your finger over the sensor for low notes or point it at lights for high ones. The little dude pictured here made appearances on more than half of the songs on our last album. Listen for bleeps and bloops and squawks. That’s probably him.

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3 replies on “From The Desk Of OK Go’s Damian Kulash: Thingamagoop”

haha so in needing/getting that wasn’t the sound of water. that’s the only thing i remember in my psychotic breakdown…. kinda sounded like water but listening now i hear it, “why i love” why i need…not the sound of a womb lol.

thanks for showing me your bleep bleep machine as requested, doesn’t resemble a mothers womb at all. hahah wtf i cant believe i thought that was water in the background of needing/getting. that’s what happens in psychosis.

good thing you named “of the blue color of the sky” about a bogus theory to cure human ailments, including psychosis. ; ) hhaha

look im cured now.

i just looked up seminotics, just my luck i ended up OCD about someone who probably studied thought and communication at Brown University, psychotic speech, semantic stability blah blah blah dude i have the worst luck ever.

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