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.

Coffee cups, pizza boxes, everything’s an instrument: watch clipping. play

You know the game “I spy…”? Every object in the room becomes a musical instrument, activated by the robotic MIDI percussion of the dadamachines automat toolkit. Watch this brilliant performance by the ensemble clipping., led by producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson, plus turntablist Kid Koala, on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025

Noise Surround System makes spatial audio kinetic, mechanical

To tackle the issue of noise pollution, Warszawa’s panGenerator brought immersive, spatial sound to the philharmonic. But they didn’t make that spatial audio virtual: tracks, skateboard motors, and speakers on karts put this installation into physical motion.

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025

TouchDesigner has a free meetup today on kinetic installations

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2025

Landscape’s Ferrous, an electro-mechanical resonator for strings

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2024

Afrorack with a DIY MIDI-CV converter on the Nile, robotic shakers and kick drum

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

Mammoth Beat Organ is a giant crazy mechanical music machine

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2018

Watch futuristic techno made by robots – then learn how it was made

Peter Kirn - September 12, 2018

Volnovod is a robot sculpture that uses wire to make sound visually

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2017