Joe Paradiso, an associate professor at MIT's Media Lab and director of the Responsive Environments group, started building this analog music synthesizer in 1973. Now, it streams music live from the ...

The start of the new year means that many of us have resolved to learn a new skill or two, so the launch of Erica Synths and Moritz Klein’s DIY educational synth kits seems pretty timely. Designed to ...

It's home economics, science class and a music lesson all in one. Composer Stephen J. Anderson can make some musical magic using nothing but old electronics and kitchen supplies. Watch him make—and ...

While this won’t fool your school principal a la Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, it’s still a cool project. This synth has a set of strings attached to DSP chips which “play” a certain sound when struck, or ...