A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital instrument age - builders rediscovered novel acoustic and electroacoustic inventions,...
DIY + Unusual
mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance
It's an even more performative monome. Creator sonocircuit has built a new take on the monome norns/grid app mlr, adding...
The classic Buchla 208 / Music Easel gets a new DIY expansion – and it can sound totally evil
Plenty of classic moments in modular have been remade or cloned. This project goes further, and expands on the original...
Free Piloslib for Pd makes patching easier – and sounds totally hardcore
The modular sound environment Pd (Pure data) is wonderful. Pd is free. Pd runs everywhere. Pd is ... frequently lacking...
“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument
The "daxophone" is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It's name is...
These custom keycaps give synth controls to your mechanical computer keyboard
Here is one tasty-looking custom keycap design, adding the faders, knobs, and synth-y visuals your mechanical keyboard so desperately wants....
Watch Troika Ranch’s history in dance technology, then dust off your Wiimote with Isadora
Return to the days of MIDI-controlled LaserDisc players - Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora, walks through this history of the...
Weddell seal vocalizations are cooler than your synthesizer, and we’re still learning more
When it comes to chilly polar sounds, it's tough to top the incredible Antarctic Weddell seal. These creatures live in...
Terje Isungset makes musical instruments out of carved Arctic ice
Acoustic instruments we think of largely in wood, string, gut, metal. Terje Isungset has spent decades making music out of...
GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid
From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It's a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And...
