Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It’s like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who don’t like brass plug-ins – more like the brass tool for synth lovers.

A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside

A funny thing happened on the way to the digital instrument age – builders rediscovered novel acoustic and electroacoustic inventions, too. Take this gorgeous example by builder/composer/musician David Hilowitz. And it all started with a broken amp part.

Peter Kirn - August 5, 2022

“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument

The “daxophone” is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It’s name is derived from “badger.” It sounds like an half-human, half-alien vocal. And virtuoso Kazuhisa Uchihashi has been able to coax a whole album out of it – with jaw-dropping results.

Peter Kirn - July 8, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2021

The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021

The dorky recorder you had in school just got a futuristic remake

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2019

An injury left Olafur Arnalds unable to play, so he turned to machines

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2019

dadamachines is an open toolkit for making robotic musical instruments

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2017

Tested: Chromaphone 2 has kinder, gentler acoustic modeling

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2016

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