Watch a free program on modular audio synthesis and programming today
From Lyon's Grame center, today there's a free online workshop on patching and coding your own synths, including working with...
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Live today: joining Roger Linn and Georgia Tech talking about directions for new instruments
Today at 1pm US Eastern (7 pm Berlin) I'm joining Roger Linn and Georgia Tech's Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan and (brain music!)...
This bulbous-looking instrument is made for music therapy and inclusive design, too
Musicians already know well this feeling of expressing with an instrument what words cannot. The open Omniphone instrument does that...
Your body is a resistor – so it’s an instrument, too – in Collin’s Lab
Each part of your body - tongue, finger, arm - has its own electrical resistance. Our friend Collin Cunningham puts...
Inside the Guthman prize’s take on future instruments – and you’ve still got time to apply
For the first time ever, the prize that celebrates the future of musical instrument tech is fully online and global....
SC-808, the SuperCollider TR-808 recreation, now has an Advanced version
The depth and flexibility of insanely powerful platform SuperCollider meets a beautiful recreation of the TR-808 in the "experimental 808,"...
Watch Simone Giertz make an instrument out of teeth, plus more dadamachines tricks
The Swedish roboticist who dubbed herself "queen of s***ty robots" has made a musical instrument out of chattering teeth. But...
Spend an hour with Leon Theremin and all-star composers in Moscow, 1991
In a rare 1991 film, Lev Sergeyevich Termen joined an all-star assemblage of composers from Russia and the US in...
Watch these makers of hybrid physical-digital music instruments – a talk from Ableton Loop
Imagining a future of instruments now can involve combinations of electronics, voltage, computation, and the physical. Grab a virtual seat...
The Guthman competition is looking for futuristic instruments – and you can apply
It's what The Guardian called the "Pulitzer of the new instrument world." There are paid commissions and star judges. And...
