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Casio’s MT-100 toy keyboard is reborn as a free plug-in for macOS and Windows

Sample Science has a tasty freebie for us - Retro Cazio models the 1983 Casio Casiotone MT-100, for a very,...

Ableton releases free Microtuner – but tuning is more than spaces between 12 semitones

Ableton has released another free Max for Live device. It's cool, it can be useful, it's free (if you have...

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like...

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like...

Happy 90th birthday to Herb Deutsch, educator, composer, and Moog synth co-inventor

It's Herb Deutsch's birthday today - and what better way to celebrate than listen to him talk about music, sound,...

Celebrate Eliane Radigue at 90 with a free documentary and fresh, radical re-releases

"I prefer to leave complete freedom to the listener ... letting them find their own music within themselves from the...

Head by drone to a 3000-year old ruined village for a stunning performance by Hayk Karoyki

You deserve a vacation. If only you could visit what some have dubbed the “Armenian Machu Picchu." Oh, and also...

Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron

Expect there are quite a few blue Blue Mondays in the house, so this is topical - our friend Alex...

Bespoke visual noise is the next domain for Robert Henke – so let’s revisit Perlin, anyway

For the year 2022, it's remarkable how much visual generation is still based on decades-old algorithms. But here's one to...