This drum machine turns children’s heartbeats into music, raising visibility of kids’ heart defects
Teenage Engineering and designer Love Hultén worked together on the design for the CHD-4, a drum machine based on electrocardiograms....
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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...
Expressive E’s Osmose gestural keyboard instrument arrives, with artist backing
It's a keyboard, with elements of a hammer-style action. But it's also gestural, with per-note articulations. And now, it's more...
Roland made an egg-shaped alien piano with flying drone speakers for its 50th anniversary
It's just the piano for Ten Forward or the recreation deck of Heart of Gold. It's made of a single...
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...
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...
Ready to dive into Max’s Gen? New book focuses on sound generation and time
The latest book from Cycling '74 promises to make deep rabbit holes navigable. Its mission: to boldly reveal the algorithms...
Orbit.6 is the premium rotary mixer by Andy Rigby-Jones your listening bar surely needs
Wait, you don't own a listening bar? Well, if you did, you'd probably shortlist the Orbit.6. It's a new "elite"...
The late Dave Smith with Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle, Tony Karavidas talking OB-X8 design
We're fortunate for all the time we get to spend together talking about the stuff we love and meeting the...
Train AI on images, and GET3D populates your world with 3D objects and characters
The latest from NVIDIA Research is an AI-powered machine that spits out 3D models - in standard formats. Code is...
