Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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Skull Synthesizer
July 13, 2010 – 9:08 pm | No Comment
Skull Synthesizer

John Richards is a “Dirty Electronics” artist, exploring the music and electronics with an approach that is “designer trash, ugly, cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled or to come in contact with the body, …

The Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track
July 13, 2010 – 5:46 pm | No Comment
The Drumssette: drum machine made from an old 4-track

The Drumssette is a programmable drum machine built by musician and circuit bender Mike Walters.

A very creative DIY use of an old four track recorder, it was built using the innards of a Tascam MF-P01. …

The MicroMoorg
July 2, 2010 – 5:11 pm | 2 Comments
The MicroMoorg

khoral is a 32 year old musician based in Nantes, France who uses his synths to write music in the pop/electro/folk/funk/whatever styles. He’s done a great DIY mod to the Korg Microkorg, installing it …

Bassoforte: a piano-bass hybrid
June 29, 2010 – 10:23 pm | 3 Comments
Bassoforte: a piano-bass hybrid

Diego Stocco in an accomplished musician, sound designer and crazy instrument experimenter. He’s managed to combine parts of a piano and parts of an electric bass into a fantastic DIY instrument that he calls the …

LEGO Mindstorms drum machine
June 28, 2010 – 9:32 am | No Comment
LEGO Mindstorms drum machine

LEGO tinkerer Peter Cocteau has created a complete DIY drum machine out of a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick and 2 motors. Dubbed the NXT-606, it’s a monophonic sample playback device, with 24 percussion …

The impossibilitron
June 26, 2010 – 8:44 am | 3 Comments
The impossibilitron

x9spaceman built this DIY crazy box out of scrap parts, and it makes some great noises. Part synth, part steampunk idunnowhat, it sports 6 Guitar strings, a bass string, a ship whistle, a jaw …

Beatfly: The MIDI flying blimp
June 25, 2010 – 8:56 pm | 3 Comments
Beatfly: The MIDI flying blimp

A short time ago, we introduced you to the Velosynth, an open-source bicycle synthesizer, but now we’ve got an entirely new vehicular MIDI machine: the Beatfly.

The Beatfly, created by Hideki Yoshimoto, is a small DIY …

Velosynth: the hackable, open-source… bicycle synth?
June 24, 2010 – 9:52 pm | 4 Comments
Velosynth: the hackable, open-source… bicycle synth?

I’m not sure entirely what to make of this, but it sure got my attention. Velosynth is a DIY kit for “an open-source bicycle interaction synthesizer” that attaches to your bike, playing sounds interactively.
Made …

Amazing drum machine robot
June 23, 2010 – 8:33 pm | 2 Comments
Amazing drum machine robot

I love drum machines – from the boooom of the tr808 to the snappy kick of the tr909, to all the weird an wonderful sounds from early analogue boxes. Well, here’s a completely different …

Paper Korg MS-20
May 28, 2010 – 11:24 am | One Comment
Paper Korg MS-20

Gardenque is a medical professional from Chester, UK and spends his spare time doing art projects. In this one, he’s created a perfect replica of a Korg MS-20 synthesizer in beautiful white papercraft.

The MS-20 …