Remember the theremin? Controlled using a performer's hand movements in mid-air, it's one of musical history's most fascinating instruments, lending its creepy tones to B-movie soundtracks, Led ...

It’s been a busy week for esoteric synth brand Soma Laboratory. Fresh off the back of releasing Messeiver, a soundscape device that promises to ‘change your perception of radio’, the company is now ...

Russia's Soma Laboratory has built a new instrument called Dvina that's inspired by the sounds of classical Hindu music. Vibrations from the strings are picked up by a powerful magnet buried inside ...

Last week, we spotted Four Tet jamming with a new drum machine gifted to him by friends, collaborators and fellow purveyors of dreamy electronica Floating Points and Caribou. That drum machine, the ...

What we see and hear around us helps us make sense of the world. But we don't perceive everything. Vlad Kreimer of Russia's Soma Laboratory – the brains behind the Pipe and Dvina instruments – has ...

The instrument brand’s latest eccentric creation is “an irrational device for exploring the world of primal, wild radio reception” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...