As a firm believer in technosolutionism, I am here to tell you, authoritatively, that you need a disembodied glowing hand that creeps around your house and plays spooky music. Not want. Need. Those who do not buy this disembodied hand will surely be left behind, or at least it will crawl after you. Instrument builder and inventor Gijs Gieskes is back at it again.
Read moreIf you feel at sea in a starless night, Ancient Future might summon charts from the ancestors, fragmented through samples and voltages, a hauntology of modular deconstruction. Bana Haffar, co-founder of Modular on the Spot in LA and Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon, has an essential offering out this month.
It’s time to resurrect 1Uesday, because the single-height 1U Eurorack format is heating up again. We’ve got some cheap and cheery Koma Elektronik tools — including some lovely leftfield stuff — plus a new range from Doepfer. If you’ve got the case for it, you can put it to good use.