Laurie Anderson, in video, on the stories behind her custom-built instruments
A violin can be totally transformed - and the performance with it - from ice skates to neon instruments to...
DIY + Unusual
Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input
Attacco's Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller - not just for triggers, but expression,...
Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide
The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools....
Movements to music, as Instruments of Things goes live on Kickstarter with sensor system
Next-generation wireless and motion-sensing technologies - they're in your smartphone already, but they're finally coming in usable form to your...
Moog now has a line of playing cards for making patches, plus a music EP
The answer to the question "what if Oblique Strategies, a synthesizer patch sheet, and Magic: The Gathering had a love...
VCV Rack adds Drums right now – analog-modeled modular drum machine for $30
While we're waiting on VCV Rack 2, Drums is available right now. And not only does it give you a...
Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon
Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic,...
Inside the Resse’s Puffs cereal beatboxes – and yeah, they made real instruments
It must be the future because your cereal box is also an augmented-reality drum machine or synth. We talked to...
Cassette turntablism is a thing, and you need to watch more tape DJ videos from Japan
DJing was born in hacks, DIY spirit, counterculture - in artists reinventing how machines work. So enough of DJs all...
