Strange

Says cinnamonjuly: “I plugged up my Bleeplabs Thingamagoop to my EMS Synthi and it immediately started using the Synthi as some kind of weird transmitter to contact home.”

Isidore is the funky modular synth of DamagedMeat:
This video is a demonstration of the latest version of Isidore with a screen in the head displaying waveforms and Lissajou shapes comin’ out from the MFB Videoscope module.
All sounds by Doepfer A100 except micromoog bass in the 1st part and little melody in the 2nd one. The [...]

David Byrne has announced the opening of his electroacoustic installation Playing the Building.
Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation transforms the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.”
Byrne’s project consists of a retrofitted antique organ placed in the [...]

One of the stranger projects we’ve seen recently is Casper Electronics’ circuit-bent double Barbie karaoke machines.
In the video, sounds are generated by the modular synth (right) and two heavily modified barbie karaoke machines which have been mounted into a single housing (top left).
The synth is feeding through and being processed by one of the [...]

Erica in Mexico needs your help. She’s got a boring maid job, and she would really rather be making music using strange electronic gear:
Hi i am erica and want to be a real sounding artist (sonidera) plaese right to me any advice
Somebody had better help Erica out soon. After seeing her unleash sheets of sound-noise [...]

BeatMachine - Amateur is a DIY project that uses a webcam and a computer to turn a sheet of paper and some bottle caps into a drum machine. 
This is totally MacGiver - but you gotta love it, too. Unfortunately, the creator’s site is in Polish. If you can read it, give us the run down in [...]

This strange music instrument is the Andes 25F - a flute keyboard!
It looks like a variation on the Suzuki Melodion. If you’ve got any info on this beast, let me know in the comments!
via SynthZoom

Let’s get this out of the way up front:
The Tablo, a new multitouch keyboard/drum controller integrating displacement and pressure, just doesn’t look as cool as other new music controllers, like the Tenori-On or even the MultiWind. 
In fact, it makes you look like you’re pitching a tent, instead of pitching a tune. 
Get beyond that, though, and you’ve [...]

Tony Amendolare at ElectroKraft has introduced Super Synth Drums - an NES cartridge that runs the machine into a drum synth.
Super Synth Drums is a genuine Nintendo NES cartridge that transforms your original NES, or clone system (Yobo, Generation Nex) into an 8 bit percussion instrument. Just plug the cartridge into your Nintendo NES system [...]

DJ Ruthless Ramsey rocks the decks
Somebody forgot to tell Ramsey that decks means “turntable” in DJ lingo, though!
You can see more of Ramsey at his MySpace page. 
via Califaudio

The Atari Punk Capsule is a fun synth DIY project that to make a synth, or at least an electronic sound generator, into a pill bottle. 
See also Worth Ekik’s other DIY projects. 

GlitchDS is a free cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS that could be great for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. 
Features include:

Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer
Create your own “trigger points”
Load in your own sounds
Save and load your work
BPM settings, or “strum mode” for controlling tempo
Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once
Each sound [...]

From the because it was there category:
Sebastian Tomczak posted this video of a working prototype version of an interface that controls the sound chip inside of a (real) Sega Master System using MIDI data. 

Casper Electronics has announced the C1 edition Speak series - a ready-to-order collection of circuit bent instruments, based on classic Speak&Spell type children’s toys. 
The C1 is available in three styles:

CS1 Speak&Spell
CM1 Speak&Math
CR1 Speak&Read

The C1’s sell for $250. 
 
For more info:

videos
sounds
user’s manual

Erik Rask and Mika Forsling, aka Lurmusic, are couple of musicians from Malmo, Sweden, working with interactive performance and live loop music.
They are known for their electronica shows where they combine projections that react to the music. Their latest project includes one Arduino board, the Tinker.it software to communicate to Flash and a shield designed [...]