Happy New year! Here’s an incredibly addictive Tenori-on-like tone matrix generator/sequencer for you to play with. Click on the squares, and press the spacebar to clear…. enjoy!

Dabbler & experimenter Paul Bower was browsing eBay looking at vintage steam engines one day, and decided to do something fun with it: he built a DIY steam-powered sequencer.
Using an old 1920′s steam engine …

Yoshi Akai is an artist, musician and instrument designer from Tokyo, Japan. Yoshi has been producing DIY musical instruments with very unique input systems as works of art, and using them in performances.
The work …

In conjunction with Yama, Giuseppe Guerriero has created the “Physical Sequencer”. The basic idea is that it transforms body movement into electronic music, much like a life-sized sequencer controller.
At the heart of the Physical …