Polystepper, a gorgeous electroacoustic synth made with stepper motors, and more wonders
Analog, digital... we're onto the physical, kinetic, and electroacoustic. For one example, marvel at the Polystepper by artist/woodworker Love Hultén...
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T-Rex recreates the Binson Echorec Magnetic Disk Delay – look, it spins!
After working eight years on its development, the retro-obsessed boffins have recreated the Binson Echorec. That's the rare mid-60s echo...
RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console
ReBirth, the software recreations of the TB-303 and TR-808, helped launch Propellerhead (now Reason Studios) and demonstrated acid could be...
Endlesss is making a limited-edition Beat Machine full-sized arcade cabinet
Forget buying licenses, In-App Purchases, or subscriptions. The future is a fistful of quarters and heading down to the Music...
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...
That time the band Journey made an Atari 2600 game
As Atari celebrates its 50th year, why not recall the pinnacle of gameplay that was "Journey: Escape" - the vivid...
A bubble wrap-popping organ, by Simone Giertz and team, is sure to be your new favorite thing
Simone Giertz, engineer and inventor known for "useless" inventions and "s****y robots," has a marvel of musical machinery. It's a...
Crank it up: A noble and elegant simulation of playing French Horn for Playdate
We truly live in a golden age of indie game development, for we have a breathtaking, achingly realistic simulation of...
Bentō is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box by Giorgio Sancristoforo
Feedback networks, unstable oscillators, shaky fat quivering filters, distorted mayhem, a bunch of labels in Japanese, a bunch of switches...
