In the sound of Wukir Suryadi’s kentongan, a world warning

From Indonesia to the planet, Wukir Suryadi sends a distress call in insistent strikes against his hand-built kentongan instrument. If you want an answer to what music we should be making in this moment, perhaps what you need is Titir — a warning.

In flickering feedback, an audiovisual synth hums and sings

Krzysztof Cybulski’s Kamer/Ton takes everything you love about video feedback loops and combines them with everything you love about zero-input sound feedback loops, in a flickering and vibrating audiovisual instrument.

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025

Sequencing with light on an alien-looking instrument by Kacper Ziemianin

DIY and instrument-making can be about tinkering and inventing. But it can also be about finding one instrument for your performance and iterating over the long term. That’s what Kacper Ziemianin, aka Ctrl Freq, has done with this “Light-Sequencer” instrument (LSe) – and it’s just reached a breakthrough third hardware version with an accompanying live show.

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2025

Tour Superbooth with Afrorack – featuring the show’s best instruments

Peter Kirn - May 22, 2024

Suzuki is re-releasing the electronic autoharp Omnichord to celebrate its 70th anniversary

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2023

Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2023

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

Peter Kirn - July 8, 2022

Terje Isungset makes musical instruments out of carved Arctic ice

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2021