Whether you're into Bach, The Beatles or Bieber, whether you can play an instrument or humming is the height of your musical skill, music is a universal language that inspires, excites and brings joy to people of all walks of life. Technology can add a new spin to old favorites or lead to entirely new instruments with entirely new sounds. Whatever your jam, here's where you'll find the latest technological developments from the world of music.
Vinyl continues its triumphant return to the mainstream in 2017, with sales of records at their highest point since the late 1980s. Sony is looking to tap into the trend by restarting vinyl production in Japan after a nearly 30-year break.
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IK Multimedia has updated its all-in-one audio and MIDI interface from 2013, giving the iRig Pro I/O volume control for headphone monitoring, MIDI thru for flexible routing options and the ability to charge connected devices.
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Stringed instruments bowed by a wheel cranked by hand have been around for centuries, and come in many shapes and sizes. Inspired by 16th century instruments, model maker UGears has launched a self assembly hurdy gurdy kit on Kickstarter that should appeal to wooden puzzle fans and musicians alike.
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Chris Riebschlager and his team were recently asked to come up with something special for a two day music festival earlier this month in Kansas City called Boulevardia. The designers came up with a 12-foot high, 500 lb installation shaped like an electric guitar that visitors could actually play.
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Last year, sonic wizard Sam Battle transformed an old kids bike into a rolling synthesizer. Now he's updated the design for a Science Gallery Dublin exhibit, plonking an analog synth and drum sequencer between the handlebars of a BMX. This time though, the Synth Bike 3.0 goes nowhere fast.
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Part of Roland's Boutique Series, the SE-02 monophonic analog synthesizer represents the first collaboration with select synth makers for its new Designer Series sound machines. And Roland has worked with analog synth veterans Studio Electronics for the first out of the gate.
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Last year, Fender announced a Blues Junior guitar amp called the 80 Proof, encased in a cabinet made from Kentucky bourbon barrels. Now whiskey distillery Bushmills has teamed up with Lowden Guitars to launch a limited edition acoustic guitar made from Irish whiskey barrels and ancient bog oak.
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British digital instrument maker Roli has announced a new addition to it Blocks modular instrument studio. The Seaboard Block kind of bridges the gap between its spongy keyboards and its modular music setup, while also making keywave expression available to players on a budget.
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Brooklyn-based instrument maker Landscape is bringing players closer to the action by essentially turning them into human patch cables. Instead of using a cable to patch between different modules on a rack, the AllFlesh jack is plugged in and the performer's touch bridges the gap.
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B&O's Play division has come up with a tasty way to bring the brand closer to "urban creative music lovers." It's teamed up with Danish craft brewers Mikkeller to produce Beobrew, a bottled beer that's had music pumped into it during the fermentation process to, so B&O claims, improve the flavor.
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