Lego released a streaming-only album 'White Noise' which was made by the Lego pieces being poured out of tubs, sifted through and clicked together. Lego’s “head of creative” Primus Manokaran describes the streaming-only album as “a collection of soundscapes” designed to promote relaxation and mindfulness. Manokaran told Guardian that producing the album was “like composing with 10,000 tiny instruments”.

Pioneering music producer and engineer Malcolm Cecil has died at the age of 84, Consequence of Sound reports. Cecil produced plenty of big releases in his time, including numerous Stevie Wonder albums, still, he is best known as the co-creator of the TONTO — the world's largest analog synthesizer. Over the years, the TONTO has been used by the likes of the Isley Brothers, the Doobie Brothers, Joan Baez, Quincy Jones, Bobby Womack, Weather Report, Gil Scott-Heron, Diana Ross and many others. TONTO was obtained by Calgary's National Music Centre in 2013, it was fully restored by 2018 and is available for contemporary artists to use.

Straight from the gut
February 10, 2021

A metal fan turned his uncle's skeleton into a guitar

A heavy-metal lover named Prince Midnight has constructed a guitar out of his uncle Filip’s bones. The uncle died more than 20 years ago as the result of a car accident, and his skeleton had been donated to a college in Greece, where it was used for educational purposes for two decades. After they returned it to the family, Prince Midnight, who got into heavy-metal thanks to his uncle Filip, decided to build the guitar from the skeleton. The torso serves as the body of the guitar, to which Prince Midnight added a neck, pickups, volume knobs, and more. The name of the guitar - Filip Skelecaster. Metal Sucks brings the pictures of the guitar-building process.