Bits & Bobs — #34

The UM Project | Breakfast Audio | Sound & Fourier Transform

This is a short newsletter about cool things I find in design, instruments, electronics, and music, along with occasional personal commentary.

UM Project

UM Project is a New York based furniture design company and it's been a massive inspiration for me in synth enclosure design. The combination of materials, colors, shapes make up an amazing crossover between playful and serious, hand-crafted and mass-produced. It's just a feast for the eyes 🤤

Breakfast Audio

What's in the water in NY? I don't know but Breakfast Audio nails industrial design quite literally. Heavy, indestructable pedals with beautiful simplicity and gorgeous metal potmeter knobs.

Who needs labels for 2 knobs, right?

This instruction manual also kicks ass:

Sebastian Lague goes audio

Everyone is a fan of Sebastian Lague, especially my son. This time he visualises sound using fluid simulation in Unity, and goes into the details of Fourier Transform in a very entertaining and understandable way. If you're a sound nerd, physics nerd, maths nerd or any nerd, this is a must see. (via plastik)