Harps with flowers that bloom and more fanciful creations of Monique Evette

If you don’t know her work, computer scientist Monique “Evette” Byars has built spectacular, animated instruments, merging digital modeling and fabrication techniques. Flowers bloom. Guitars are reimagined as koi ponds. Sounds get transformed into wearable resin structures. It’s enough to make you want to up your airbrush, math, and science games.

Mixxx could unlock free and open standalone DJing — but, like, stable

Daniel Schürmann of the long-running libre/free DJ software project Mixxx has a compelling proposal for uniting efforts to develop their DJ software on embedded hardware, from emerging cheap “open” hardware to DIY projects. It could mean a chance for openness to have a moment — while avoiding the chaotic slop of countless separate forks and hacks.

Peter Kirn - November 3, 2026

HAND is a Eurorack module that is also a disembodied crawling hand

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.

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2026

A patchable solar-powered synth with a speaker; birds, hot dogs, and more

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2026

A $5 modular drum circuit, a free online course, and how it grows into more

Peter Kirn - August 21, 2026

Strange, wonderful #808day creations from Japan — and a DIY D-Beam!

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2026

Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves have the cutest dinosaur music video

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2026

The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from inMusic

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2026

AudioWanderer noise maker is a glitchy, gorgeous, mysterious gem

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2026