Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

I am both fascinated by and skeptical of strange, nontraditional musical instruments. And it’s this very thing that drew me to Artiphon’s Orba. It’s about as nontraditional as you can get. It’s a tiny ...

It is an electronic synthesizer built out of a disposable vape. It is a novelty instrument of sorts. RASCOE: That's Kari Love, a robotics professor at New York University. And, yes, by vape she means ...

Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The modular synth pioneer created an instrument like none other, one that relied on intuition, learning and, most importantly, human touch. He died ...

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical ...

Tasty Chips Electronics based in Utrecht, Netherlands Has created a new granular synthesiser in the form of the GR-1 which takes the form of a hardware musical instrument that offers users hands-on ...

It was one of the most successful failures in tech history. Released in 1982 and written off as a disaster just two years later, the Roland TB-303 synthesizer looked set to be little more than a minor ...

From Alice Coltrane’s devotional music to modern ambient interpretations of Sufi mysticism, synthesizers are everywhere in spiritual music. But what is it that makes synthesizers so attractive to ...

The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small-ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music.