Roaches, mealworms, shrieking bubbles, and more in free Richard Devine sound samples

The chalk is underwater, screaming like a chattering alien. Or that’s how it sounds through a hydrophone. Enter the weird world of some of Richard Devine’s field recordings – then grab the sounds for your own Creative Commons-licensed creations.

Afrorack with a DIY MIDI-CV converter on the Nile, robotic shakers and kick drum

Our friend Brian aka Afrorack has kept up his must-see series of DIY video tutorials in his home Uganda. And as ever, he’s producing brilliant instruments and fantastic music on a budget, thanks to some serious ingenuity.

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

SOMA has a new compact 8-bit noise synth and sequencer for 130€

The romantic engineering synth maker has something small and affordable, a post-apocalyptic weirdo instrument from designer Kakos Nonos. It’s part chip music, part noise experiment, in the grand tradition of stuff like the Atari Punk Console. Meet Rumble of Ancient Times aka Грохот древних эпох. It’s great to see Soma using some of their recent […]

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2021

8-bit painting – watch a DIY light pen for the IBM PCjr

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2021

The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

Peter Kirn - November 30, 2021

Synthesizer cakes keep getting more deliciously realistic

Peter Kirn - November 24, 2021

Livecoding glitch, eye-searing colors, AI poetry, and the knowledge to make it yourself for free

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2021

At Instruments series by Morphine Records, physicality and improvisation meet invention

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2021

teenage engineering are now selling their own custom PC case, computer-1

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2021

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