A new instrument designed and engineered in Nashville, Tennessee — a place known for its lively, vibrant music scene — seems to cover pretty much any musical eventuality. No wonder it’s perking up ...

Take a Chapman Stick, add a lot of tech in its belly and jam a USB cable up its jacksie and you get something that looks vaguely like an INSTRUMENT 1. It’s a completely new type of musical instrument ...

There is no doubt that smartphone- and tablet-based apps have had a huge impact on music creation. Examples of note include commuters on a New York subway train being treated to a band performing ...

A multipurpose digital music tool that promises to be 'any instrument you want it to be' has hit its Kickstarter funding goal in just over five hours. The Artiphon Instrument 1 can be played like a ...

A new instrument that will play strings, percussion instruments, keyboard instruments by one with digital strings and tap buttons is called "Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1"is. By linking with Apple's ...

Music, MIDI and mobile? Seen that before, right? Well, yeah, but sometimes something comes along that surprises everyone. Artiphon's Instrument 1 is one such thing. And after all, there's more than ...

After tempting us with some candid studio shots last December, followed by some attention-grabbing showcasing at CES 2013 and NAMM, Artiphon has revealed that its Instrument 1 will shortly be ...

Moogfest, touching down in Durham, North Carolina from May 19th to 22nd, is both a conference and a concert. But the celebration of Grammy Award-winning technologist Bob Moog (say it like ‘rogue’) and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Is it a violin, a piano, a bass, a drum machine, a guitar ...? It's all those and more according to the inventors of a "multi-instrument ...

I am both fascinated by and skeptical of strange, nontraditional musical instruments. And it’s this very thing that drew me to Artiphon’s Orba. It’s about as nontraditional as you can get. It’s a tiny ...

Artiphon, the startup that previously raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter for a device called the Instrument 1, has launched a new campaign for its latest invention, Orba. Co-founder and CEO ...

Innovative interface with velocity-sensitive controls and haptic feedback. Neat built-in sounds with the option to add your own. Light and portable. Gesture controls manipulate filters and effects in ...