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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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....
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...
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"...
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...
Check this fanciful “old-school” retro tracker hardware and a cute groove
"Picked up this machine at a local garage sale. The owner said he picked up in the 90s and it...
Teenage Engineering’s mixer – FX – audio interface – instrument is provocatively tiny
The next big idea from Teenage Engineering is a minuscule multifunction mixer-audio interface. It's beautiful and - maybe unusably small....
Inside the Resse’s Puffs cereal beatboxes – and yeah, they made real instruments
It must be the future because your cereal box is also an augmented-reality drum machine or synth. We talked to...
