Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
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Meng Qi’s new Wingie2 firmware is inspired by the late Rob Hordijk’s Blippoo Box
Dutch designer Rob Hordijk inspired many instrument creators before his death last fall. Meng Qi is one of those moved...
Endlesss is making a limited-edition Beat Machine full-sized arcade cabinet
Forget buying licenses, In-App Purchases, or subscriptions. The future is a fistful of quarters and heading down to the Music...
PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP
One little board is the brains of just about any synth, modular starting point, noisemaker, or instrument you can dream...
Make your own drum machine: a $70 DIY creation built on Teensy
Albert Nyström shares their DIY creation - 3 months of work, one $30 Teensy 4.1 microcontroller / USB brain, a...
Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser
What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or...
At Black-led Willie Mae camp, music tech exploration starts at age 5 – interview
Black-led, female-led, New York-based Willie Mae Rock Camp is providing inspiration to female and gender nonbinary musicians. Executive director LaFrae...
Listen to Herb Deutsch narrate studies in tape and synthesis, from his 1976 book
In memory of Herb Deutsch, what better than to listen to his charming voice intoning a series of sound design...
bela Gliss: expressive touch meets computation in crowd-backed Eurorack module
bela has unveiled its new Eurorack module, a light-up, high-precision touch controller with pressure and looping. The post bela Gliss:...
Support Dirar Kalash, experimental multi-instrumentalist behind Sonic Liberation Front
Palestine-born, Berlin-based artist Dirar Kalash faced an accident after a gig without health insurance. But an outpouring of support is...
