Cats & Synthesizers

It started as a casual scroll: one cat pawing at a Korg pad, another pressing a Moog key with all the gravitas of a composer. But soon my feed was full of them—feline synthesists, improvising their own circuitry.

There’s something uncanny about the pairing. Cats and synthesizers both occupy the borderlands of the human and the nonhuman. They hum, they blink, they demand touch. Both have moods. Both are tuned to frequencies that we feel as much as hear.

Watching a cat press a note feels like watching nature perform a duet with the machine. The cat doesn’t care about scales or presets; it plays by proximity, vibration, curiosity. The synthesizer, in turn, amplifies the gesture, turning soft paws into waveform.

It’s a small but perfect image of cyborg collaboration: instinct meeting interface, whiskers meeting waveforms. A reminder that technology isn’t only coded—it’s cohabited.

This post gathers my favorite of these encounters: cats with Roland synths, Casios, modular racks, ribbon controllers. They aren’t just memes. They’re portraits of wonder, where the animal world touches the electronic one, and something surprisingly musical happens.