Daniel McAnulty is an electronic music composer, device maker, song writer, photographer, and general all around useful fellow from Oakland, CA. Daniel has come up with the ultimate in DIY audio effects: He’s …

Georg Reil is a musician and artist from Deggendorf, Germany. He’s put together this video of a collection of very curious sound objects.
At first sight, each one seems quite trivial, but exhibits exceptional and …

I’m not sure about you, but I go crazy every time I hear a new track that uses Auto Tune in an obvious way. It got old the second Cher released her track many …

What would it sound like if you took the record off the turntable and just let the needle hit the platter while it spins? How about 100 of them all playing at the same …

Readers of SynthGear might already be familiar with Yuri Suzuki, the Japanese audio/electronic artist/musician. He brought us the Jellyfish Theremin and the Music Kettle, among other things.
In collaboration with Yaloslav Tencer, Yuri has …

Chris Supranowitz is a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Along with a number of other spectacular studies (such as quantum optics, trapping of atoms, dark states and entanglement), …

Ahhh, the boombox. Boomboxes bring back some great memories for me – 80′s rap, jackets with zippers and funky-ass dudes groovin’ on the sidewalk. At one point, the “boombox wars” got a bit …

Have you ever wanted to hear just what 14 theremins playing together sounds like? Well members of the ensemble called “Mable” play russian doll-shaped (aka “matrioshka”) theremins, and they do so with great skill.
Here …

Christmas is coming up – it’s time to spend some money on your synth geek friend or spouse. If you’re anythign like me, you’re always needing to come up with some cool gift ideas …

Trent Reznor that Nine Inch Nails played their last ever live show in September, and now it seems as though he might be living up to that claim by selling off the band’s equipment.
Some of …