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...
Electronics
The Insolventunclesam is a synth about printing money, by Gijs Gieskes
Enigmatic Dutch synth inventor Gijs Gieskes has a musical instrumental response to the strangeness of late capitalism – and it’s...
Make a DIY velocity-sensitive e-drum kit with Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack
No budget for an electronic drum kit? No problem. Brian Bamanya reports from Uganda on how to DIY the whole...
CHAIR made an amazingly realistic snare plug-in – get a CDM discount, then play it on a table
The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research have been busy - and they've made a snare model unlike any you've...
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,...
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...
From Estonia and the Baltic, new composition and rich electronic music in a free broadcast
The Buchla and Serge synths and laptops are all warmed up. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are showing a spring bounty...
Watch this entertaining how-to on hacking Mutable’s Plaits for just intonation
It's like esoteric music tech bingo: Mutable Instruments Eurorack meets just intonation meets open source meets virtualization meets microprocessor programming...
Teenage Engineering are going deeper into consumer design, with startup Nothing
It's like something out of a William Gibson plotline. Nothing is headquartered in London and will make ... something. And...
