The Duck Pond Twelve mallards, no recordings, every quack synthesized live
Reviews
Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
Fosi Audio DAP Neo A click-wheel music player that remembers the iPod
Pequignet Royale Paris Chrono BPM A chronograph whose pulsometer scale reads a song's tempo
Lofi Cities Pixel-art city nights with lofi composed live in your browser
iNCYNC Up to six recordings of Terry Riley's In C at once, 1968 to 2026, each with a rate slider to line up the pulse
Ceramic Beats A drum machine whose nine tracks are the Met's nine ceramic materials, each struck by its own sound
Canyon Groove Real canyon terrain played like a record's groove
Nick Weerts Memorial Phone Booth A Madison phone booth where the past does the talking
MidiSlayer A sight-reading trainer that grades you on the notes you keep dodging, not the ones you already know
Juan Pablo Culasso A blind field recordist who identifies birds by ear, and built a birding trail for people who cannot see them
fcbnerd Binds a guitar pedalboard's footswitches to shell commands
Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth Three synth lords save Earth from Halley's Comet, judged on sheer coolness
SIRENFALL A shelter window, a rainy city, and a civil-defense siren built from a rotor model rather than a recording
Intertapes Found cassettes from around the world, played back
Mic Drop A party game with no audio in it at all — the room is the speaker, the scoreboard and the judge
Big Walk You cannot play this one alone — that's the point
Eigendrum Real finite-element drum physics for anything you draw, including the 1992 proof that closed Kac's question
The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear by typing on the one you already have
Cayin CP6 A portable CD player with real vacuum tubes inside
Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
We Are Rewind WE-001 (Pink Floyd Edition) A Bluetooth cassette player wrapped in Dark Side of the Moon artwork
Tiny Vinyl Player A record player built for records that already play on any turntable you own
Shanling M0 Pura A 35-gram hi-res player with no Wi-Fi, no app store, and nothing to subscribe to
Cities and Memory A world map where every point plays a real field recording and its remix
Fidelia A bit-perfect Mac music player, rebuilt from scratch on a new engine for people who want to control the whole signal path
Zenteek A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
Finds
- Making Beats with Bird Song Benjamin Mjönes samples nature videos into live beats
- Ghostmashers The Ghostbusters theme mashed with 11 other 1980s hits
- AudioRays AR-384X Audio Visualizer A handmade desktop spectrum analyzer that goes on being a clock when the music stops
- Hotmoon Cocoon Pro 3 A bedside sound machine that keeps its settings on the device
- Spore & Skog's synthesized forest Eight woodland creatures, none of them recorded, playable in your browser
- The Duck Pond Twelve mallards, no recordings, every quack synthesized live
- The KV Archive Twenty years of an MP3 blog, now a shuffle-able player
- Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
- Roiler Boom Pick two songs and slide between their melody, vocals and beats
- Guitoro A playable guitar in the browser, strummed from your keyboard
- Trettitre Retro Ambient Audio System A vinyl player, CD player, and cassette deck that hang on one wall rack
- Fosi Audio DAP Neo A click-wheel music player that remembers the iPod
- NepTunes 4 A Mac menu-bar music companion with a jewel-case desktop widget
- Pequignet Royale Paris Chrono BPM A chronograph whose pulsometer scale reads a song's tempo
- But We Had Music Nick Cave reads Maria Popova's poem, animated by Daniel Bruson
- Go a Little Out of Your Depth David Bowie's creative credo, from a 1997 interview
- Les Fo'Plafonds Play The Simpsons Danny Elfman's theme, played on bicycle pumps, pots and a steam iron
- Sounds of a Jurassic Forest A 165-million-year-old insect chorus rebuilt from fossil wings
- Songs in the Key of Life — The Anniversary EP Four vault tracks, released the same minute the 1976 sessions wrapped
- Lofi Cities Pixel-art city nights with lofi composed live in your browser
- Ceramic Beats A step sequencer whose tiles are real ceramics from the Met's open collection
- Digitron Synthesizer An 8-track modular-style synth and sequencer for iPhone and iPad, patched with your finger
- iNCYNC Layer up to six of 99 recordings of Terry Riley's In C on top of each other, tempo-synced
- Wrensilva Studio (White Oak) Wrensilva's most affordable record console, now finished in white oak
- The Guthrie Center The church where Alice lived, now Arlo Guthrie's folk venue
- KaitsInk Record Toppers Little 3D-printed figures that ride your record round
- Activo BR01 A pocket remote with a real volume wheel for music you play from a phone or player
- Canyon Groove Real canyon terrain played like a record's groove
- Cacophony, a Marble Machine Jelle's Marble Runs builds a machine whose only job is noise
- Nick Weerts Memorial Phone Booth A Madison phone booth where the past does the talking
- MidiSlayer A sight-reading trainer that grades you on the notes you keep dodging, not the ones you already know
- Juan Pablo Culasso A blind field recordist who identifies birds by ear, and built a birding trail for people who cannot see them
- Sewing Machine Sequencer An antique sewing machine, playing a synth one stitch at a time
- Death Cab for Cutie: Stone Over Water A song about masking the strain, animated as something kinder
- HSL-Noise Hue is the pitch, saturation is the bandwidth, and lightness is how full it sounds
- Mr. Brightside, Sung by 144 Movies The Killers' hit reassembled lip to lip from 144 different films
- KLH Model Four Floorstanding Speaker Three-way sound from a cabinet shallow enough to sit six inches from a wall
- mordent The word for a musical bite, which cannot stop biting its own spelling
- Tycho — Transformation (Burning Man Sunrise 2026) One hour fifty-one, with the sunrise marked between tracks 22 and 23
- fcbnerd Binds a guitar pedalboard's footswitches to shell commands
- The NTS Guide to Jazz in Murakami Novels Two hours and seventeen minutes of the records his characters put on
- Surraura A Mac menu-bar app that plays whatever you're listening to inside another room
- earshoot A music-discovery map that grows outward from whatever you search, with a toad living on it
- Lyrimuse Word-synced Mac lyrics that pick the right version of the song
- The 101 Plays Itself A live LA freeway camera, rescored as generative music
- A 3D Printer Plays Rush E Stepper motors doing an impression of a keyboard
- Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World A field guide to recording the sounds nature doesn't advertise
- Designed in California An Apple-history podcast, told story by story
- INXS But It's David Bowie Need You Tonight, sung as Let's Dance-era Bowie
- Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth Three synth lords save Earth from Halley's Comet, judged on sheer coolness
- SIRENFALL Pull the breaker and the siren is built, not played
- Fender x Timex Automatic A dive watch wearing the Telecaster's own woodgrain
- Floe A free, open-source instrument engine for sample libraries
- EP–2350 FX–MIC A handheld mic with 1 MB of onboard sample storage
- Intertapes Found cassettes from around the world, played back
- Kent Nishimura plays "Peg" Steely Dan's most-produced song, on one acoustic guitar
- Anything Piano Paste a link, get a piano roll that waits for you
- Invader A 10 MB podcast player that counts the hours it hands back
- Dolly Parton and Kermit Sing 'Everyday People' 1987, the fifth episode of Dolly, one frog
- Wavepocket A four-track tape loop that fits in a pocket
- Doubly Blackbox Checker Paste a Spotify link, find the royalties nobody claimed
- Gramola Cover Flow, exiled to the edge of the screen
- IKEA RINNIG Plate Holder A $6 dish rack that turns out to be a record stand
- RollTab Play eight notes and your phone finishes the phrase
- Nature's Oldest Mandolin A cicada sings with its whole body, and the instrument has not changed in a thousand centuries
- Douk Audio VU9 Mini Two glass tubes on the desk that climb with whatever is playing
- Alternative Accordion Radiohead, Blur and Tame Impala, played on a squeezebox
- Lullaby Converter Turns a song you love into a music box that keeps the real melody
- Mic Drop You get a word, you buzz in, you sing a real song that contains it
- Big Walk A co-op-only walking game where sound is the puzzle
- Mazurka Cafe A listening room where DJs can get pelted with tomatoes
- Radiooooo Pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing
- Ruka Studio TD-1 A turntable that stands the record up to face you
- Fiio EA13 Six tubes, Class A, and a price that doesn't start with a comma
- Kanto Obi3 (Gen 2) A $200 belt-drive turntable that now watches its own speed
- Fiio Snowsky Nature 50mm drivers and a detachable cable for thirty-nine dollars
- Rocky's Musical Language Building an alien tongue out of notes, then asking linguists if it holds
- The Halo Theme, Sung in an Oil Tank Monastic chant returned to a room with a monastery's reverb
- 'Money', Performed With Actual Money The tape loop that opens the song, played live at Abbey Road
- Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) 67 tracks of a score being built, assembled by someone who cared
- The Earliest Known Polyphonic Music Two melodies at once, written down around 900 AD
- Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium Every bird in Hitchcock's The Birds is an electronic instrument
- I Love The 90s A shared 90s TV lineup, a radio you can't rewind, and one 74-minute blank CD-R
- BAP Studio An MPC-style drum machine that runs in a browser tab
- Echo Photo Album A photo with up to 60 seconds of sound stitched to it
- Eigendrum Draw a shape, hear the sound it would actually make
- FiiO Snowsky Echo Nano An iPod Nano body built around a DAC chip
- The Z Suites The Legend of Zelda's scores, reworked as modern jazz
- Victrola Soundstage A soundbase built to sit under a turntable without shaking it
- Otamatone Melody: PAC-MAN The squeezable synth, shrunk to keychain size and given a ghost
- QWERTY MIDI Your laptop keyboard, tuned like a bass guitar
- Syitren RM1 A CD suspended in acrylic, spinning in the open
- The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear without owning one
- Vinyl A turntable that spins whatever you're actually playing
- creakwork12 Your laptop hinge, now a rusty door
- jdanwire A late-nineties file-sharing client that shares nothing and plays your own disk
- The Odyssey Sung in Ancient Greek Homer with the pitch accent put back
- Cayin CP6 A portable CD player with real vacuum tubes inside
- Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
- Binaural Studio Binaural beats generated to match the musical key of what's playing
- Max Studio Tools Ten open-source DSP emulations of studio EQs and compressors
- iLive Clear Truly Wireless Open Ear Clip Earbuds Clip-on earbuds that never plug your ear canal
- Endel Ambient sound generated from your body's own data
- PieceKeeper Tracks a musician's full repertoire and runs focused daily practice sessions
- The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
- Synth-a-Sette Pocket Analog Synthesizer DIY Kit An analog synth in a cassette shell that plays doorknobs and houseplants
- Theremin Electronic DIY Kit Solder together the one instrument you play without touching it
- Station Melodies of Greater Tokyo A listening archive of the jingles that greet trains at the platform
- AudioBo Merges MP3s into one chaptered M4B audiobook without forcing a 24-hour split
- We Are Rewind WE-001 (Pink Floyd Edition) A Bluetooth cassette player wrapped in Dark Side of the Moon artwork
- Jam-Pod A lossless player for people who still own their music
- loopclub A drum machine you build with strangers, live
- Prostir Zvuku An ambient mixer where you drag sounds into place around your head
- Tiny Vinyl Player A shoebox-size turntable built only for 4-inch records
- Shanling M0 Pura A hi-res music player that deliberately can't stream
- YouTube Guitar Tab Parser Turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the tab
- MCP2000 Type a prompt, get a 16-pad drum bank to sequence and chop
- Pitch Trail Ear training for kids disguised as a color game
- SoundPipe Route any app's audio into any other app, one-click install
- Cities and Memory A world map where every point plays a real field recording and its remix
- VoiceDot A globe where every dot is a stranger's recorded voice story
- LectroFan Alpha A 4-ounce rechargeable noise machine with non-looping sounds
- McIntosh MA2375 McIntosh's first tube integrated amp in a decade, with glowing blue meters
- Chiptune Radio A 24/7 livestream of 8-bit soundchip music
- Kaset A native, open-source Mac client for YouTube and YouTube Music
- Fidelia A bit-perfect Mac music player, rebuilt from scratch
- Macon, Georgia A small city built around the Allman Brothers and Otis Redding
- The Roland 50 Studio An interactive tribute to 50 years of Roland's instruments
- The Map of Metal Interactive genealogy of metal subgenres with curated playlists
- Metro Music LA Real LA train arrivals translated into live generative ambient music
- Your Internet Radio Dial Global internet radio stations arranged as a tunable FM dial
- Hallucinate A massively multiplayer online rave
- OK Computer as N64 Soundfonts Radiohead's OK Computer remade with sounds from classic N64 games
- Robert Johnson's "Come On In My Kitchen" Restored Nick Dellow's digitization of rare 1936-37 Robert Johnson test pressings
- Book Beats Book tracking app that generates AI-curated playlists to match each book
- Drops Falling balls create looping beatscapes by hitting obstacles you place
- Klattsch A speech synthesizer that operates on phonemes, not spelling
- Trambient Manchester's tram network sonified — 1.7 million possible versions per journey
- Audio Spaces A collaborative global map of location-tagged sound recordings
- Teenage Engineering EP-136 K.O. A pocket-sized sidekick sequencer with 16 pads and 14 voices
- Zenteek A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
- Eurovision Through the Decades How Eurovision lyrics evolved over 60 years of contests, scrolly-told
- Liqoria One liquid-glass mini-player for every music app on the Mac
- 55-Minute Boards of Canada B-Sides Mix Rare and unreleased material from the Scottish electronic duo, in one continuous session
- "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" Music Box A hand-crank music box that plays the Munchkin victory anthem from Oz
- Light Crime Audio Player A native macOS music player from a developer who wanted iTunes back
- And Vinyly A UK service that presses your cremated remains into a playable vinyl record
- Companion Apps for Apple Music Faithful re-creations of the classic iTunes interfaces, riding on top of modern Music
- Marshall Emberton III Portable Bluetooth speaker that sounds like the amp it visually quotes