Animistic technology: MusicMakers Hacklab CTM Festival flashback…
CTM Festival is here, rescheduled to May, so with it another collaborative performance laboratory - MusicMakers Hacklab. I find myself...
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Superbooth Berlin preview: why the May edition will be an essential music culture event
Superbooth is back in the woods of Köpenick for the second time in under a year - an unmatched meeting...
Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer
Swords into plowshares ... invading Russian tanks burnt up and made into synths. Sherman Drozd did just that, salvaging a...
420 Hz is ultra-chilled music generated from cannabis plants
You knew with all this talk of music generated by plants, someone would try this - electrical signals generated from...
Musical, powerful live coding in the browser is here with Strudel – child of Tidal
Imagine a no-install, browser-based, free tool that lets you express musical ideas elegantly by typing simple code. Or for those...
Dart, a line of open source MIDI and DMX controllers, in wonderfully wacky variations
The Dart line of controllers is an Arduino-powered array of devices, either for DIYers in shield form and with open...
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...
Go check out people making music and visuals by connecting synths to plants
Peope are finding new, organic inputs for synthesizers - the patterns of leaves, humidity and climate, and even electricity pulsing...
With AudioThing Noises, a noise generator becomes more than a noise generator
It all started with "a mixture of river, wind in the trees, and Autobahn," the sounds Hainbach heard where he...
Teenage Engineering made a robotic LFO out of LEGO – and now offers barebones modules
Ever taught a synthesis course? At some point, you invariably try to explain an LFO as being like a machine...
