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 ...

I am simultaneously deeply fascinated by and deeply skeptical of strange niche instruments. As fun as a classic Stylophone is, for instance, it's pretty tricky to make decent-sounding music with. Even ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba.

The original Orba was a curious little baseball-sized device that invited people who couldn’t play a triangle if they tried to somehow create beats, bops and bass lines. The success of the original — ...

Between Instrument 1 and Orba, Artiphon has established itself as the maker of innovative — and delightful — music instruments. Today the Nashville-based hardware startup returns to the crowdfunding ...

Artiphon – maker of the Orba – has revealed its sequel – the Orba 2. Orba is a small, handheld music making device that almost defies description, and the Orba 2 piles on new features to make it even ...

Orbacam syncs visual effects to the beat of whatever music you’re playing on the Orba, making it easy to create shareable music videos. Artiphon has announced a new companion app for its Orba ...

Nashville-based Artiphon has just launched a portable all-in-one synth, MIDI controller and looper on Kickstarter, and it will set you back just $99. Not only that, but Orba should also fit into the ...