CRUM2 “generative percussive harmonic device” with lush design
A dream team of designers has gathered in the north, producing a swoon-worthy, ultra-sexy instrument that looks straight off the...
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Super Synthesis is taking their excellent Eurorack modules open-source
DIYers, coders, hackers - Super Synthesis is fully open-sourcing their modules under the ultra-permissive CC0 license (public domain). It could be...
Sarah Sommers’ debut is a deep journey through live sets, all in custom pink
Behind all the meticulous electric-pink customization, the debut full-length from self-identified "bimbo princess" Sarah Sommers is a return to deep,...
Inside Vostok’s Atlas, the quad filter module inspired by 80s Roland
Iconic 80s Japanese synths like the SH-101, JUPITER, JUNO, and TR drum machines were defined by both their filters and...
Field system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test
Teenage Engineering's fecund design imagination has yielded inventions wonderful, ambitious, sometimes prohibitively expensive, odd... but can the company reinvent the...
That time Kraftwerk invented electronic drum pads and made ethereal sounds
Wolfgang Flür left a string of technological innovations, but if you need a moment of sublime chill in a chaotic...
There are some wild AI music LEGO sets – but this LEGO Neve studio is real
From Ableton Live to Stockhausen, folks have been generating some hilarious LEGO kits around music making. But leave it to...
The long lost, 478-key Moog-Rothenberg keyboard makes its return
A little-known invention by Bob Moog in collaboration with mathematician/theorist David Rothenberg has come back from the dead. With 478...
Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov
The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning...
Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén’s amazing ferrofluid synths
LEDs, cathode ray tubes, blinky lights - move over. Once you've seen dancing animated black goo frolicking in space to...
