Casio’s expressive guitar strap controller was inspired by a chopstick case

Surprise! Casio has something unexpected — Dimension Shifter, a spring-powered expressive wireless controller that attaches to your guitar strap. And it was the invention of one employee, inspired by his kid’s school-lunch retracting chopstick and cutlery case.

Paulee Alex Bow makes songs from transphobic, ableist hate mail

It’s time for a very special episode of Magical Synth Adventures. Armed with some rare and wonderful grooveboxes, host, artist, and music tech journalist Paulee Alex Bow turns their hate mail into songs – and surprise, you get some bangers.

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2025

bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025

Okay, the “frog” bass stabs on MJ’s Thriller is a Casiotone MT-60

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2024

Circuit bending progenitor Reed Ghazala has new ideas to share – with invisible rays

Peter Kirn - November 9, 2022

Casio’s MT-100 toy keyboard is reborn as a free plug-in for macOS and Windows

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2022

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2022

Watch this Kazakh pop video for the maximum weirdness of Casio’s singing robot keyboard

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2022

Type in lyrics, and this keyboard sings them, as Casio returns to its Casiotone roots

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2022

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