Mix up a year in music, with a guide to weird, under-the-radar Poland

Oramics, the DIY collective run by and focusing on women, local, and queer artists, have put together an all-hands mix and a guide to everything wild and wonderful from Poland and beyond. You can’t pick a better way to end 2018 than with strange, new, and different sounds.

Build your own scratch DJ controller

If DJing originated in the creative miuse and appropriation of hardware, perhaps the next wave will come from DIYers inventing new approaches. No need to wait, anyway – you can try building this scratch controller yourself.

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2018

Check out these amazing DIY controllers people made with OpenDeck

You’ve got plenty of off-the-shelf controllers – but what if you want something that’s unique to you? OpenDeck is an affordable, young, Arduino hardware-compatible controller platform for DIYers, and it’s starting to produce some jaw-dropping results.

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2018

Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2018

Brunswick is a grimy patchable synth kit with BEEF, for under £99

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2018

Post folk: when a hurdy gurdy meets MIDI, a new hybrid is born

Peter Kirn - October 19, 2018

DIY music gloves for everyone, as Imogen Heap project gets kid friendly

Peter Kirn - October 12, 2018

Mammoth Beat Organ is a giant crazy mechanical music machine

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2018

This granular convolver hardware is the latest creation from Tatsuya Takahashi

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018

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