learning Free digital synth and learning guide Popkin

more cowbell Recreating the Roland TR-808's legendary analog cowbell Rob Beschizza

synthesizers Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, RIP David Pescovitz

synthesizers Listen to the Stylophone Orchestra who play the pocket synthesizer Bowie made famous David Pescovitz

synthesizers Complete instructions for making the "Beatmaster 2000" -sequencer and beat synth Mark Frauenfelder

mentats What if Kraftwerk made a Dune concept album? Now we know the answer. Thom Dunn

mycology Listen to these pink oyster mushrooms sing Popkin

synth Listen to this great instrumental synth concept album about every teen movie Thom Dunn

nana nana nana nana na na Listen to "All The Small Things" in the style of a Rick Astley-esque 80s synth pop song Thom Dunn

synthesizers This circuit-bent television makes horror-movie soundtracks Popkin

Musical instruments First impressions of the new Moog Sound Studio Mark Frauenfelder

moog Check out this excellent video for the new Moog Sound Studio Mark Frauenfelder

spooky Watch this black cat play horror movie music on a keyboard David Pescovitz

analog synthesizers Wendy Carlos explains the science of synthesizers in a 1970 BBC interview Thom Dunn

amusements Pink Trombone — a website that makes weird human voice sounds Mark Frauenfelder

voice Listen to the evolution of speech synthesizers from 1939-1985 Andrea James

audio design How the iconic THX Deep Note was made Thom Dunn

high weirdness Five minutes of a mushroom playing a synthesizer Gareth Branwyn

CLACK Plastic-teeth synthesizer Clive Thompson

dr. noving jumand Listen to this wild vinyl recording of a rogue psych professor and some early Moog employees Thom Dunn