American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has made her first foray into musical instruments with Timbra, a rimless piano informed by the fluidity of sand dunes. More about Kelly Wearstler's first-ever piano features "sensual and unexpected" curves
Swedish tech company Teenage Engineering has developed a beat machine that allows users to create their own medieval-style music by combining samples of lutes, hurdy-gurdies and "rowdy peasants". More about Teenage Engineering releases "world's first medieval electronic instrument"
A video filmed at the Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony reveals the Ceramophone, a musical instrument with keys made of porcelain tiles created by Solus Ceramics and Mirage. More about Ceramophone is a percussion instrument with keys made of porcelain tiles
Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender's Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. More about Klein Dytham Architecture gives Fender's first flagship store a welcoming feel
Students from the Swiss design school ÉCAL have collaborated with Japanese manufacturing company Yamaha to create six devices for playing music which were showcased at Milan design week. More about Yamaha and ÉCAL students design music players that encourage physical interaction
Musicians "painted" with their instruments to create the enigmatic graphics in the centenary publication of the Latvian Academy of Music, designed by local studio Nord ID Riga. More about Nord ID Riga makes sound visible in graphic design for Latvian Academy of Music
Swedish audiovisual artist Love Hultén has combined nostalgic and new references to create his MDLR-37 synthesiser, which folds up similarly to an old-fashioned toolbox. More about Love Hultén's MDLR-37 synthesiser takes the form of a fold-out wooden toolkit
Dezeen Showroom: London designer Lee Broom has unveiled a chair that pays homage to musical instruments, commissioning an orchestra to perform music by Debussy while seated on the chairs for the virtual launch. More about Lee Broom's virtual launch of Maestro chair features movie with 30 classical musicians
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has reimagined a sixty-year-old electronic sequencer machine as a physical piece of music software that uses artificial intelligence to generate melodies. More about Yuri Suzuki gives Raymond Scott's Electronium electronic sequencer an AI makeover
Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering has created a portable modular system that aims to offer a cheaper alternative to a regular analogue synth. More about Teenage Engineering releases a "poor man's" modular synthesiser system
Thirty-two wind turbines recreate the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground, in this installation that architecture studio NEON has created at Chesters Roman Fort, in the north of England. More about NEON creates wind-powered installation that mimics the sound of 500 galloping horses
This trumpet-shaped table lamp by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron is based on pendant lighting originally designed for a French museum. More about Herzog & de Meuron designs table version of Unterlinden museum lighting
Graduate shows 2016: this prototype tool by Royal College of Art graduate George Philip Wright can transform users' voices into drums, guitars and other musical instruments (+movie). More about George Philip Wright's Vochlea gadget transforms human voice into instruments
London Festival of Architecture 2016: architecture studio pH+ has created a pavilion in Greenwich that can be played like a giant musical instrument (+ slideshow). More about Xylophone-like pavilion built for London Festival of Architecture
Milan 2016: designer Martino Gamper explains how he repurposed the Flyknit material Nike uses in its shoes to create drum skins in our next movie from the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition in Milan. More about Martino Gamper creates drum kits for Nike with Flyknit skins
Architect Annabelle Selldorf has completed a New York store for Steinway & Sons, featuring wooden design elements that reference the company's handcrafted pianos (+ slideshow). More about Annabelle Selldorf designs New York showroom for piano maker Steinway & Sons
Thousands of metal marbles tumble through this wooden contraption by Swedish musician Martin Molin, which is operated with gears to produce different sounds and create tunes (+ movie). More about Wintergatan Marble Machine plays music with metal balls
Royal College of Art student Axel Bluhme has developed an interactive drum machine that uses an analogue interface of spinning discs and magnets to combine digital sounds (+ movie). More about Axel Bluhme's drum machine triggers sounds using rotating discs of magnets
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: the Mi.Mu gesture-control gloves developed by musician Imogen Heap could lead to more accessible ways of making music, say early adopters of the wearable technology (+ movie). More about Imogen Heap's music gloves could help disabled people "fulfil what's in their head"
Hungarian pianist Gergely Bogányi has redesigned the grand piano to improve the quality of the sound produced, resulting in an unusual sculptural form (+ movie). More about Musician Gergely Bogányi offers a curvaceous take on the traditional grand piano