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...
Electronics
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...
Neutral Labs Pip module: morphable, complex LFOs designed to be paired, open & DIY
Why work in modular? A good answer: modulation. And modules are increasingly departing from more utilitarian approaches to gesture recording,...
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...
Mutable Instruments swan song: end of production leaves huge legacy, one last Plaits update
What a way to go out. Mutable Instruments discontinues production this month, but leaves a reshaped modular landscape, a real...
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:...
Circuit bending progenitor Reed Ghazala has new ideas to share – with invisible rays
"Father of Circuit Bending" Reed Ghazala isn't done transforming musical bending techniques. For starters, there's this magnetic-patch, chip-talk, chance-based aleatron...
The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies
Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer...
