Cybraphon is an “autonomous emotional robot band”. It’s a self-playing musical robot, similar to a player piano, but more more complicated, and it’s actually a full band. Oh, and it obsessively checks the …

Designers Rob Meek and Frank Müller have created a system that is a fusion of two very strange bedfellows, synths and typefaces. Meet the Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer:

The FM Typographic synthesizer consists of a knob-laden …

The Square Band is a portable, wearable, monophonic, solar-powered synthesizer. It’s meant to be worn around the wrist like a bracelet or watch, and has 8 buttons which trigger different notes in different octaves.

It’s …

I have to credit Jean-Michel Jarre as being one of my inspirations to get into synths a long time ago.  The first time I heard Oxygene, my eyes were opened to a new type of …

Forest Terry Jr. (from the “Forest Power Band) came up with one of the stranger frankenstein instruments that I’ve seen in a while, and way back in 1974 he put out an album to show …

Let’s say you’re a computer salesman and you have to get play at a hoedown and don’t have time to change or even go home to pick up your instrument… quick – what do you …

The ARP 2600 was arguably one of the greatest analog synthesizers ever and has been used in just about every form of music. It’s a semi-modular, monophonic synth that was made to compete directly …

The Plink Jet is a robot made by entirely out of parts from inkjet printers. Made by Andrew Doro and Lesley Flanigan, this DIY project that was made for one purpose: to play the guitar.
The …

The Bob Moog Foundation has just released a 2010 calendar celebrating the Moog legacy through vintage photos, memorabilia, quotes and information taken directly from Bob’s personal archive.

The photos in the calendar highlight important moments in …

In these 2 videos, Thomas P Heckman shows off his amazing collection of gear, in what he calls the “Synth Museum”. I’m not sure if it’s so much a museum, because he actually plays …