dadamachines doppler is a new platform for open music hardware

The new doppler board promises to meld the power of FPGA brains with microcontrollers and the accessibility of environments like Arduino. And the founder is so confident that could lead to new stuff, he’s making a “label” to help share your ideas.

Mournful drone sounds of a repurposed HP test device

Hainbach continues to make beautiful sounds with esoteric or forgotten gear – this time, the “saddest drone machine,” a used HP 3782A Error Detector telco device.

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2019

SOMA’s Ether is a high-sensitivity ear for your electromagnetic world

Electronics are redefining what “sound” means – by remapping other signals into our audible spectrum. The latest is SOMA’s invention Ether, a “microphone” for electromagnetic fields. If that sounds familiar, this one’s a bit different than some EMF devices that came before.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2019

The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2019

A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019

Haken’s ContinuuMini is expressive, post-keyboard sound for $899

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2019

Build your own scratch DJ controller

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2018

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

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