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One new board turns into a complete sound and light lab
This board could be the first time you learn about wiring simple circuits. It could transform into a weirdo light-powered instrument. It could be a place you hold a workshop. It could even become an...
View ArticleA patchable, circuit bent Sony Discman turns into a glitch instrument
It’s happened: CD players are officially retro/vintage. (Heck, so is the iPod at this point.) But that means it’s time to open them up and glitch them out – at least for some intrepid inventors, that...
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Fantasy Mansion is an EP that’s also a generative, 8-bit circuit with sync
The golden age of the recorded album may be long past, but the golden age of the album-as-instrument may be just getting started. Captain Credible is the latest artist to embrace the idea of releasing...
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Oi, Kant! is a raunchy, glitchy, out-of-control patchable groove machine
Artist Ewa Justka has built a drum/bass machine that’s as chaotic as our times – a dirty, feature-packed, mayhem generator. And you can buy or build one for yourself, too. Ewa’s project is open source...
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8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape
It’s the size of a cassette tape, has buttons and pots so you can play it as a handheld instrument, it’s open and hackable – and it sounds like 8-bit mayhem. 8BitMixtapeNEO is very, very lo-fi synth...
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The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada
Why should a synth be a metal box with some wooden endcaps? Why shouldn’t be a severed baby doll head with glowing red eyes and buttons in its skull? Moon Armada helps the forward evolution of synth...
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New KORG kits with tubes: Nu:Tekt headphone amp, valve overdrive
KORG are adding to their inexpensive, easy put-them-together kits with a headphone amp and valve overdrive. Totally tubular. You know how consumer tech mostly works now – pieces of glass and metal and...
View ArticleEyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent...
Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like "photon clarinet." The father of circuit bending also espouses a new conceptual...
View ArticlePirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with...
What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or the reclaimed science of fluidics and swirls of water? Romanian-born,...
View ArticleGeorgian-made Ambient audio is bringing home-grown modular to the Caucasus
Buy local: the world of gear for musicians is opening up to independent makers in more places. That includes Tbilisi-based Ambient audio, who are making everything from glowing and recycled patch...
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