Ole Nieling

OLME is a product line of synthesizers by Ole Nieling (1987) specifically designed to free the act of making music from technical and theoretical knowledge. The knobs, sliders and buttons are made with the motor-skills and musical background of very young children in mind. These design...

Gijs Gieskes

When I started to make electronic things I knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions I managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance I used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing...

René Paes

Making music with plastic cards? Yes! Plastic cards are very suitable to make jaw harps from, and to play drones and overtones. Particularly cards from blocked accounts, rejected insurances, and unvalid identities have a wide sound stage. René Paes plays among other instruments self-made platic...

Sonoscopia

Sonoscopia is an association based in Porto, Portugal, for the creation, production and promotion of artistic and educational projects primarily focused in the areas of  experimental music, sound research and its interdisciplinary crossings with literature, dance, theater and visual arts.  Since its creation in 2011,...

Alberto Novello

BitBeatBot is a compact, cheap and portable sound engine based on one line code formula. It produces sound that range from drone to noise, from weird melodic patterns to ever-changin rhythmical structures. The hardware is open source. It is available for pre-order writing at jestern77@yahoo.it Alberto Novello is a...

Arvid Jense & Marie Caye

Both recently graduated from art and design studies in the Netherlands, Arvid Jense (NL, MSc at TU/e) and Marie Caye (FR, BA Design Academy Eindhoven) collaborate on their shared passion for art and technology. Together they combine technological expertise with critical thinking. Next to their work...

Marloes van Son

Marloes van Son builds systems, installations and instruments. The electromechanical objects that she develops explore natural phenomena and everyday appliances. By repurposing ordinary objects she aims to create unusual, yet familiar experiences. Her recent work focuses on sound compositions, alternative scores and instrument building. During...

Davy Sumner

Davy Sumner is an installation artist, experimental musician, percussionist, maker, and educator in Los Angeles, CA. He creative works are spawned out of noise, physics, biology, and society, often utilizing sound spatialization, feedback-based systems, auditory illusions, chaos, and original electronics as key elements. Davy specializes...

o k a p i

... is seeking. It is a new musical laboratory in the 21st century. The ensemble consists of old instruments obscure instruments and contemporary instruments. It is a fairytale orchestra, founded with childishly simple sounds, melodies and harmonies, a fairy tale, until the most violent sound sprouting from an...

sinneb (Arthur Bennis)

Arthur Bennis (sinneb) is an autodidactic musician and electronic musical instrument builder. Starting in the nineties as a singer / guitarist in a heavy metal band, his musical and engineering interests eventually shifted towards DIY electronic musical instruments. Whether the tooling being digital or analogue,...