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

Owen Lake is back — the alias of Jeff Snyder, who in these parts is best known for Snyderphonics, MPE innovator and Manta creator (of Princeton University). Here, we get twee-and-western, electro-country tunes with Anica Mrose Rissi that charmingly stick in your head, played partly on instruments Jeff invented, Electrosteel and Electrobass. And there’s a music video with dinos!

With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max

“I’m not particularly interested in typing prompts to make stuff, I’m interested in breaking them and dissecting them,” writes Jasper Shuoyang Zheng as he introduces Latent Terrain. Now using an intuitive, elegantly designed open-source Max external and UI, you can play the weird world of neural audio codecs like an instrument, transforming your own sounds into new textures.

Peter Kirn - June 17, 2026

In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online

Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and practice of one-of-a-kind musical instruments. You can watch – and you should, with a dizzying array of utter legends who are normally never in the same room.

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021

This bulbous-looking instrument is made for music therapy and inclusive design, too

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2020

Call for participants: a Hacklab to change perspectives, in Belgium

Peter Kirn - December 26, 2015

Building instruments, making future rituals in Berlin (open call)

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2015

Mold Sound with Tingle, a Music Controller That Looks Like Pin Art

CDM Staff - July 3, 2015

Hand Pan Percussion, Reimagined as Futuristic Musical Instrument

Peter Kirn - June 5, 2015

MIDI Makes an Augmented Harp Performance Like None You’ve Heard

Peter Kirn - February 19, 2015