Core Speaker by Mass Fidelity

Stereo sound achieved in one portable, wireless cube

A year ago, Toronto-based audio tech company Mass Fidelity raised over $1.5 million in their Indiegogo campaign for the Core speaker. The numbers and interest make sense, because this isn’t another check-off-the-boxes, cookie-cutter Bluetooth speaker joining the pretty cramped consumer audio market. Most of these compact offerings sound flat, blasting waves in a single direction and, ultimately, losing the realistic quality of recorded music. Core …

Jarbird: Such Is the House

London group Jarbird have yet to release an album, but their sparse pop song “Such Is The House” makes quite the first impression. Though the single was floating around on Soundcloud a year ago, “Such Is The House” now gets a music video worthy of the track’s eerie, thought-provoking lyrics about self-awareness: “To stand before a mirror and cry… To stand before an awkward look-alike.”

Interview: Graham Dunning and the Mechanical Techno Machine

How the experimental sound artist improvises with his self-playing Frankenstein turntable

Multiple layers of modified records rotate on the turntable. Some of the vinyl has been sliced and bent, while others have little nuts and bolts drilled in or are covered in stickers to blank out certain sections. A ring standnormally used to clamp test tubes in laboratoriesholds a few contact mics. The tonearm is precariously held in place, tethered by a string leash. With every …