The delicate, tiny sound machines in the world of Kuro Kasetto

From Mexico, Kuro Kasetto produces music with solenoids and machines that quivers and rustles as if it’s more flora than machine. It’s a world of “tiny sounds” and a source of exquisite escape.

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

Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2023

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

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

KOMA’s Field Kit, connecting contacts pickups, and motors, is now reality

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2017

Tour the Wild, Modular Robotic Percussion of Bastl Instruments

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2015

A Robotic, Physical 808 Machine Advances Weird Science of Music, Tech Alike

- November 13, 2012

Gotye to Queen to Radiohead, The Songs of Hard Drives, Robotics, and Retro Gear

- October 1, 2012