This Cardboard Guitar Is 70% Air… But It Still Plays Like A Fender
Ten years ago, Fender and Signal put out a cardboard Stratocaster that made the rounds online and promptly disappeared into the “cool but impractical” category…
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This Square Player Refuses to Stream Music, and That’s the Point
Streaming services turned album covers into tiny squares you scroll past on your way to something else. Phones made music convenient, but also turned it…
These Musicians Turn Obsolete Tape Decks Into Living Instruments
There’s something wonderfully defiant about watching three musicians hunched over dusty reel-to-reel tape recorders, coaxing haunting melodies from technology most people consider obsolete. The Japanese…
Dad Built a 4-Step Sequencer Synth Simple Enough for Age 3
A father built a portable synthesizer for his daughter’s third birthday, and the result looks almost too polished to be a first electronics project. It’s…
This MIDI Controller Just Solved Music’s Biggest Portability Problem
There’s something refreshing about a gadget that looks this good while solving real problems. Germain Verbrackel’s MIDI controller concept doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel,…
Memoreel captures nostalgic sensibility, fuses it with AI to create music and art from recorded emotions
Generative AI has the power to create music, images, content and videos from your input. Now, someone believes that not only words and text, but…
Someone Built a Working Synth From Cardboard and Walnut Keys
Most synthesizers look and feel like appliances. They’re plastic boxes mass-produced in factories, efficient and functional but utterly lacking in personality or warmth. Pianos and…
Nintendo Switch-inspired DJ Console Splits Into Two So You Can Deejay With A Friend
It was pretty game-changing back in 2015 when Nintendo dropped the Switch, ushering in a wave of 2-player gaming on the same console. Two joy-cons,…
Teenage Engineering’s latest Microphone is the most unserious yet brilliant piece of music tech we’ve seen
Teenage Engineering has never been content to stay within conventional product categories, consistently pushing boundaries between instruments, toys, and art objects. Their approach to music…
This Futuristic iPod Boasts A Clean Minimal-Punk Design… And A Jogwheel
I’d argue that the iPod ran but the Spotify Car Thing stumbled at its first steps. There wasn’t a problem with design, people were actually…
Ntron Arcade DIY Project Brings Chiptune Synth and Retro Gaming Together
The fascination with 8-bit games and chiptune music continues to inspire makers who want to create their own tools for both play and artistic expression….
World’s First Hollow-Body Concrete Guitar Weighs 20 Pounds and Plays Like a Dream
Rob Scallon and Mike from Morley Maker just built a hollow-body concrete guitar that actually works, and I’m sitting here wondering what other materials can…