mechanical engineering

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...

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...

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...

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....