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

music Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, RIP David Pescovitz

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

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

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

synthesizers Listen to these pink oyster mushrooms sing Popkin

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

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

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

music First impressions of the new Moog Sound Studio Mark Frauenfelder

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

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

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

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

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

synthesizers How the iconic THX Deep Note was made Thom Dunn

music Five minutes of a mushroom playing a synthesizer Gareth Branwyn

synthesizers Plastic-teeth synthesizer Clive Thompson

synthesizers Listen to this wild vinyl recording of a rogue psych professor and some early Moog employees Thom Dunn

art New book of synthesizer hand-drawn history David Pescovitz