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 …

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 …

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 Octopulse is in practical terms, a knitted synthesizer that was made to turn “unapproachable technology into an easily approachable, tactile and emotional object”.

Developed for the Yamaha Musical Instruments Research Lab, this crazy looking alien-bagpipe-thing …

Akihiko Matsumoto from Japan has put together this Max/MSP tool that converts audio to midi. This in itself is pretty cool but then things get, well… demented.
Akihiko uses samples of voices, puts them through …

We synthesizer nuts can be a weird bunch. It seems as though half of the synth manuals that I’ve seen have some sort of strange text or pictures in them. The following are …