Build smart, custom mechanical keyboards for MIDI – or really tiny Ableton Live control
John Park of DIY boutique Adafruit seems to be having some serious fun with tiny mechanical keypads - as hackable,...
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Freespin is a demo made for the Commodore 1541 – no, not the computer, just the floppy drive
Artists just did the unthinkable - make a complete audiovisual demo on just a 1982 floppy drive, without the computer....
Beirut Synthesizer Center is a home for Lebanon’s artists, even when electricity is scarce
Lebanon's DIY scene simply won't quit. On Friday June 26 an informal new space opens, a gathering spot for electronic...
Here’s some lovely music in the woods, on monome norns arcologies and more
It’s a rig in the dirt, on a budget, with some beautiful music. DIY forest sounds are go. Now that...
The experimental sound tech program teaching girls and nonbinary kids that embraces errors
Imagine not just embracing girls and nonbinary and queer trans kids as music students - but encouraging DIY, hot-wiring a...
Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here
The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded...
The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs...
OSC to MIDI conversion and MIDI over network, with a free, open source tool
Music gear and software supports MIDI. Visual software supports OSC. You have a network and want to easily run MIDI...
Senyawa to infinity: Alkisah is a 44-label release, a decentralized festival, and more
From Beirut to Berlin, Perth to Orange County, Moscow to Nanjing, 42 labels are joining the Indonesian underground in imagining...
Watch a hacked DJ technique made with karaoke tapes, by Ōedo Technica
Vinyl? CDJ? Meh. Hand-mixing and "scratching" karaoke cassette tapes on hacked machines as a new form of strange pop music...
