Electronics

PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

One little board is the brains of just about any synth, modular starting point, noisemaker, or instrument you can dream...

At Black-led Willie Mae camp, music tech exploration starts at age 5 – interview

Black-led, female-led, New York-based Willie Mae Rock Camp is providing inspiration to female and gender nonbinary musicians. Executive director LaFrae...

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...

bela Gliss: expressive touch meets computation in crowd-backed Eurorack module

bela has unveiled its new Eurorack module, a light-up, high-precision touch controller with pressure and looping. The post bela Gliss:...

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...