Endlesss is making a limited-edition Beat Machine full-sized arcade cabinet

Forget buying licenses, In-App Purchases, or subscriptions. The future is a fistful of quarters and heading down to the Music Arcade! Meet the Beat Machine arcade machine from Endlesss.

This drum machine turns children’s heartbeats into music, raising visibility of kids’ heart defects

Teenage Engineering and designer Love Hultén worked together on the design for the CHD-4, a drum machine based on electrocardiograms. The object went on auction on Valentine’s Day this week, in an effort to raise visibility of Congenital Heart Disease.

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2023

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or the reclaimed science of fluidics and swirls of water? Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Ioana Vreme Moser asks those questions in her work, today at CTM Festival, in a discussion you can catch live online.

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

bela Gliss: expressive touch meets computation in crowd-backed Eurorack module

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2022

Watch Troika Ranch’s history in dance technology, then dust off your Wiimote with Isadora

Peter Kirn - July 6, 2022

Dart, a line of open source MIDI and DMX controllers, in wonderfully wacky variations

Peter Kirn - April 6, 2022

Go check out people making music and visuals by connecting synths to plants

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

Make a DIY velocity-sensitive e-drum kit with Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2021

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