The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Why should a synth be a metal box with some wooden endcaps? Why shouldn’t be a severed baby doll head with glowing red eyes and buttons in its skull? Moon Armada helps the forward evolution of synth form factors, and the results are … uh … adorable is the word?

Bible thumper: watch a circuit bent bible, made on a dare

This week in blasphemy: LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has another weird nerdy superhit, this time modding and glitching out an electronic bible. Jesus, take the soldering iron!

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

Star Shepard is Legowelt’s insane hacked-together DIY synth

This is a serious Frankenstein’s monster: a DIY synth made of a 1981 Casio keyboard, an AM radio, stompboxes, and more – and held together with glue and tape.

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2018

The strange, cartridge-powered speech of TI Touch & Tell

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2018

These circuit-bent instruments and sounds are simply gorgeous

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2017

A patchable, circuit bent Sony Discman turns into a glitch instrument

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2017

Hack – listen to one LED create its own micro rave

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2016

The Arcane Arts of Experimental Instrument Design: 3DMIN [Videos, Gallery]

- December 8, 2014

Meet A Glitchy Nightmare Marshall Pedal, Then Play Rusty Bent MegaDrive DESTROYING EVERYTHING

- October 7, 2014

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