A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.
Move over, keytar, there's a new synth/guitar hybrid in town courtesy of BLL Instruments When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Elyra is ...
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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are you frustrated with the sheer weight of your hardware synthesizer? Of course not! But ...
Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators offer tiny battery-powered synths and a range of sounds across a collection of six devices that cost $59 each. Czech synthesizer company Bastl Instruments has a ...
From Apple Macintosh originator Jef Raskin’s love of the Renaissance-era cornetto to virtual reality pioneer Jarod Lanier’s mastery of various Asian wind and string instruments, there is a long ...
Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Noon Instruments Re-amping synthesizers - playing recordings through an amplifier and ...
The pan-generational duo Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith pay tribute to the modular synth pioneer. "Don Buchla made it possible for me to... Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The ...
A couple of researchers have developed a hybrid keyboard that combines a sampler and a supercollider synth engine. It allows two people to capture, manipulate and play samples with keyboards… at the ...
Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The modular synth pioneer created an instrument like none other, one that relied on intuition, learning and, most importantly, human touch. He died ...