This bulbous-looking instrument is made for music therapy and inclusive design, too

Musicians already know well this feeling of expressing with an instrument what words cannot. The open Omniphone instrument does that for some of the people who may desire it most – but who are too often left at the sidelines of music technology.

Your body is a resistor – so it’s an instrument, too – in Collin’s Lab

Each part of your body – tongue, finger, arm – has its own electrical resistance. Our friend Collin Cunningham puts this to use, and then turns all of that into musical instrument controller.

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2020

Inside the Guthman prize’s take on future instruments – and you’ve still got time to apply

For the first time ever, the prize that celebrates the future of musical instrument tech is fully online and global. Here’s a look at why that matters – and yeah, if you’re thinking of applying, you just got an extension to this Thursday.

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2020

SC-808, the SuperCollider TR-808 recreation, now has an Advanced version

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2020

Watch Simone Giertz make an instrument out of teeth, plus more dadamachines tricks

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2020

Spend an hour with Leon Theremin and all-star composers in Moscow, 1991

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2020

Watch these makers of hybrid physical-digital music instruments – a talk from Ableton Loop

Peter Kirn - September 3, 2020

The Guthman competition is looking for futuristic instruments – and you can apply

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2020

arcologies is wonderfully archaic music art for monome norns

Peter Kirn - September 1, 2020

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