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.

Lorenzo Colombo in live session, framed by speaker stacks, equipment from Torso and Soma on the table and metal percussive plates suspended behind him and on tables, as he strikes one plate with a hammer.

Dream with this: solenoids, percussion, and circuits in live Torso session

Here’s a perfect way to treat your ears at the start of the week. Sound artist and percussionist Lorenzo Colombo recorded this ethereal, cosmic live set at Torso Electronics in Copenhagen. The dadamachines automat toolkit and its mechanical possibilities get woven together with Torso’s T1 and S4 hardware, and the results are pure magic.

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2026

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

TouchDesigner has a free meetup today on kinetic installations

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2025

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

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019

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

Peter Kirn - September 12, 2018

R is a reactive, emotional robot speaker from Teenage Engineering

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2017

Here’s how Mouse on Mars are using robots to expand their band

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2017