Learn Instrument Design With Roger Linn
Electronic instrument pioneer Roger Linn (LinnDrum, MPC, LinnStrument) let us know about an upcoming workshop that offers a rare opportunity...
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Tour Superbooth with Afrorack – featuring the show’s best instruments
In the deluge of videos from Berlin's Superbooth synth show, don't miss the walkthrough by Brian Bamanya (Afrorack). The Ugandan...
Synth Design Master Class With Vlad Kreimer Of SOMA Laboratory
"It's an important subject," notes Theakston. "Useful if you're a user, a fellow synth designer and someone who makes modular...
Suzuki is re-releasing the electronic autoharp Omnichord to celebrate its 70th anniversary
Here's an unexpected reissue: Japanese music maker Suzuki is celebrating the company's 70th anniversary by bringing back the Omnichord, a...
Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument
The "daxophone" is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It's name is...
Terje Isungset makes musical instruments out of carved Arctic ice
Acoustic instruments we think of largely in wood, string, gut, metal. Terje Isungset has spent decades making music out of...
At Instruments series by Morphine Records, physicality and improvisation meet invention
In a world when so much seems virtual, remote, simulated, and yet oddly pre-scripted, Berlin's Morphine Records turned in the...
Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize
Bored by the Grammys? Try the Guthmans instead. The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition has selected its award winners, as musicians...
