2026 will mark a series of firsts for Eternal Research, the creative studio building a new multimodal, synesthetic orchestra. One of the biggest developments is that the company will open its first physical location: a studio dubbed the Demon Lair, after its flagship EMF-powered instrument/controller the Demon Box.

Housed in a 3800 sq ft warehouse in Hollywood, the Lair will function as a showroom, laboratory, and a studio for film, music, and live performance. There will be space for everything from woodworking, costumes, photography, painting to fabrication as the company builds on its vision and embraces every aspect and every stage of its groundbreaking devices.

“The space will give us the ability to explore visual art and incorporate it with sound and new instruments,” explains Eternal Research founder, inventor and artist Alexandra Fierra. “We plan on utilizing the studio as a collaborative space.”

The space will build on the world of the Demon Box, reprising the theme of the number 3 with special sound equipment. These will include a custom-designed triphonic speaker set up created by Oakland-based sound artist Fait Poms of Faited Systems. It will also serve as a workshop where Eternal Research’s next instruments will come to life, including a new instrument currently in development—a synth with unexpected possibilities.

“The Demon Box is not just a gimmick or a niche device, and we knew we needed space and freedom to demonstrate this, a place where we can push the envelope. A place where we can build around it,” reflects Fierra, who has travelled to instrument museums and collections around the world to ensure her designs had never been tried before. “We’re creating spaces and opportunities to work with others who are trying to do things differently, to approach technology with an artistic eye.”

The Demon Lair is Eternal Research’s LA home, yet creative souls everywhere will be able to encounter the Demon Box as Eternal Research hits the road this year. The company’s first stop will be the NAMM show in Anaheim in January (Hall B, Booth 9510). In collaboration with Media Pollution, the booth will show off the unique, multi-media capabilities of the Demon Box, while audiophiles can enjoy the Demon at several listening stations. Eternal Research will also have an exhibition at Buchla & Friends, January’s biggest two-day collection of hands-on synths on the West Coast, where attendees will learn, listen, and live the latest in electronic music sound production. 

About Eternal Research
Eternal Research is a creative technology studio dedicated to designing new instruments that reveal the hidden music and imagery embedded in everyday objects. Its debut product, the Demon Box, can "play" the EMF signatures of devices like cell phones, TVs, and hairdryers—functioning as a controller, an instrument, and a listening device turning the invisible noise of our daily environment into music. Using a proprietary system of inductors to translate electromagnetic frequencies into sound, MIDI, and control voltage, Eternal Research opens up an entirely new realm of musical possibilities. 

The Demon Box is ready for the world and now on sale for preorders. More than a sonic instrument, this triphonic system is built to transform spatialized EMF into multiple sonorific channels. In other words, you can use any ordinary object, from a power drill to a cell phone, to engage the Demon Box, which turns its electromagnetic field into light and sound.

The Demon Box can be purchased here, with deliveries of units beginning in mid-autumn 2025. With a recently patented triangular design unlike any other instrument on the market, it is the first commercial product from Eternal Research, the company creating the next generation of exploratory audio-visual devices and musical instruments.

A sleek triangle years in development, the Demon Box uses 33 inductors grouped in three triangular channels of 11 inductors to transform EMF. The Demon Box can be used on its own to create unique sounds or it can be incorporated into a larger setup including as an audio-visual controller. The instrument is perfect for sound designers, composers, artists, and other creatives who want to find new ways to conjure and explore sound. It also offers ample opportunity for visual applications like video synthesis, DMX lighting, and coding platforms like Max, Jitter, and TouchDesigner. 

“The Demon Box is a physical manifestation of a bigger idea. It’s an idea in contrast to the idea that all the organizing principles we’ve hitherto devised are music, and all that is not part of that is noise,” explains Eternal Research founder Alexandra Fierra. “Additionally, it’s about the idea of the inverted pyramid, to invert all the previous concepts of music into a new theory. This idea inspired the design, which is now recognized as unique and patented. Our goal is to bridge the gap between science and music, to turn the forces that made the electric guitar and MIDI possible into an instrument for the 21st century.”

Demon Boxes can mesh with nearly any set up, thanks to their comprehensive connectivity: three mono audio ins, three mono audio outs, a triphonic audio output, 3 control voltage outputs, and MIDI out sending CC and note data via a DIN port and USB-C. Each channel comes equipped with parameter controls, enabling you to mix both the EMF channels and external gear to your liking in real time. According to Eternal Research’s head engineer Bryn Nieboer, “Stereo is limited. Three channels allow you to sculpt and navigate with panning, phasing, and effects layering, to create an immersive, triphonic sound that sets the Demon Box apart.”

The Demon Box and other Eternal Research projects will be part of this year’s Knobcon in Chicago on September 5-7, 2025. They will be available for Knobcon attendees to explore at the Eternal Research booth B400. Eternal Research is offering a special discount of $100 off the $999.00 USD original purchase price of The Demon Box that runs September 5- 13, 2025. The offer can be used once per Demon Box transaction with the code DEMON33.
 

Innovative instrument company returns to Superbooth in celebration of the public launch of its much-anticipated first instrument.

Eternal Research is devoted to uncovering the hidden sounds of the world around us. Its first instrument, the Demon Box, turns EMF into sound via a set of 33 inductors, letting artists make music from anything they can imagine, from vintage electronics to smart phones. Wildly successful on Kickstarter, the Demon Box is now ready for full commercial release. 

The final prototypes of the striking triangular instrument made of folded steel will be ready by late spring, with orders officially starting on July 1 and units shipping by September. This milestone will be celebrated at this year’s Superbooth, where some of the first Demon Boxes will be ready to hum, sing, and roar. 

“The Demon Box is a physical manifestation of a bigger idea. It’s an idea in contrast to the idea that all the organizing principles we’ve hitherto devised are music, and all that is not part of that is noise,” explains Eternal Research founder Alexandra Fierra. “Additionally, it’s about the idea of the inverted pyramid, to invert all the previous concepts of music into a new theory, making Demon Box the first intentionally designed instrument of a new symphony.”

This new symphony operates along different principles, leading to radically different sounds. By harnessing electro-magnetic fields (EMF) and using a proprietary system of inductors to translate these signals into sound, the Demon Box can "play" the EMF signatures of devices like cell phones, TVs, and hairdryers—turning the silent world of electricity into music. 

Demon boxes can mesh with nearly any set up, thanks to their comprehensive connectivity: three mono audio outs, one MIDI out sending CC and note data, a stereo headphone jack, and a USB-C port for charging or output. Each of the three EMF channels features a dedicated aux input with individual blend controls, enabling sound design with external gear. According to Eternal Research’s head engineer Bryn Nieboer, “Stereo is limited. Three channels create an immersive, triphonic sound that sets the Demon Box apart.”

Eternal Research will exhibit at Superbooth 2025.

• Booth number: Z065, located in the Zeltstadt (Tent City), ZW section.

• Exhibition hours: 10 AM–7 PM, Thursday through Saturday, May 8–10.

• Location: FEZ-Berlin, Germany.

About Eternal Research

Eternal Research is a music technology company dedicated to designing new instruments that reveal the hidden music embedded in everyday objects. By harnessing electro-magnetic fields (EMF) and using a proprietary system of inductors to translate these signals into sound, Eternal Research opens up an entirely new realm of musical possibilities. Its debut product, the Demon Box, can "play" the EMF signatures of devices like cell phones, TVs, and hairdryers—turning the invisible noise of our daily environment into music

Music is everywhere, inhabiting inanimate objects, just waiting to burst into being. The noisiest devices can possess a hidden elegance in the patterns of electromagnetic waves their operation induces. 

Eternal Research, a startup dedicated to new instruments, unlocks the existing music hidden in everyday things and experiences by harnessing electro-magnetic fields (EMF). Using a proprietary system of inductors to translate EMF into sound, Eternal Research’s first commercial product, the Demon Box, can play anything from a cell phone to a hairdryer, process this signal, and make it musical. It promises to open up a vast new dimension of music making for new creators as well as experienced electronic and experimental musicians.

“The idea that new instruments have to be digital isn’t correct,” argues Alexandra Fierra, inventor and musician. “The analog world is not maxed out, even if the music is digital the experience of it, in the end, is analog. The pace of technological advance is always greater than the utilization of any one technology.” Fierra came to music relatively late in life-- “I was a musician without an instrument”--yet who found music and musical invention a sanctuary when times were tough, before she came out to family and friends. “I wouldn’t say the world got better after coming out. It made me realize music was family.”

Other experiences, including a frightening encounter with electricity, contributed to what would later become her first instrument. “Once when I was a child, I vacuumed up an ice cube and was shocked by at least 110 volts. I didn’t know how electricity worked; I felt the residual shock and thought electricity was like a venom that killed you. Eventually, after nearly an hour, I realized I would live,” but the force’s awe-inspiring power would continue to fascinate her in years to come.

Much later, inspired by the scientific concept of demons as mysterious physical phenomena that are yet to be explained, the Demon Box emerged from a decade of experimentation and creativity by Fierra. She found herself in an extremely difficult season of life, and to cope, she began to tinker with various electrical and carpentry projects to build a new kind of instrument, her “Hardware Store” period, when she used simple materials and store-scavenged parts to build a new kind of instrument in her Brooklyn apartment. She performed with her inductor-based instruments and learned more and more about what they could do, the music of the natural and human world they could unfurl. 

As her work evolved, Fierra was joined by fellow musician and engineer Bryn Nieboer. Nieboer’s extensive and varied music background was paired with a strong curiosity and autodidact approach to synths and electronics. Nieboer and Fierra collaborated to develop the inductor instrument idea, striving to make it more robust and complex and that would allow people to use techniques that otherwise would take a great deal of equipment and time to achieve. After years of wooden prototypes and conceptual meditations, Fierra and Nieboer honed the ultimate configuration of the Demon Box in the throes of the pandemic. “There was a part of me that felt like Newton holed away in a room for six months during the plague and devising a brand-new theory of light,” states Fierra. “All of a sudden, we had to delay everything indefinitely, but instead of endlessly panicking, we decided to take the instrument to a new level”

 “We had no assumptions to start,” states Nieboer, “which was the hardest part of the design process. Usually there are some basic decisions already made, mechanical and certification restraints. But this was totally wide open,” Nieboer explains. “Paring it down to what it needed to become and focusing on what it should actually do was the biggest challenge.” Once they landed on a design that worked technically, conceptually and aesthetically, they teamed up with industrial designers at Harvard (Spatial Dynamics) to create the folded aluminum model soon to be publicly available. In addition, they collaborated with programmer and music/video artist Jordan Bortner to create software to enhance what the inductors did on their own. 

Fierra comes by her fascination with the creative possibilities of electricity and natural phenomena honestly. She hails from a long line of inventors, seekers, and wild dreamers: the Rodales who reignited American interest in traditional sustainable farming methods to launch the organic food movement. Her forebears also worked as electrical engineers, inventing dimmers and other electrical elements we all use every day in our homes. 

Fierra herself has a lifelong history of experiencing electricity’s sound and feeling in a personal, artistic way. “I love learning about the deepest physical properties of things and in things, as a way to embrace the true nature of the world. EMF is all around us. It fluctuates based on temperature. It’s a living thing as well, everything is connected with it,” Fierra muses. “The music is already there, and you can hear it when you put a Demon Box next to fluorescent lighting or a TV or even a traditional synth. This instrument lets us listen in to the inherent music of the universe in new ways and expand our understanding of what is natural.”

Fierra’s fresh, yet deeply grounded perspective on the music in everything electric promises to shake up the way we create with sounds. The Demon Box can immediately respond to the efforts of someone new to music making, but it is fully featured enough for professionals to engage with it to spark new creativity. The Demon Box uses a proprietary configuration of 33 inductors in a triangular field that translates the electromagnetic resonances of innumerable objects and devices into three channels. “The three channels allow you to sculpt with panning, phasing and effects layering. Stereo is limited, but we can expand on stereo with more than two channels, making a more synaesthetic triphonic feeling-sound,” Bryn explains. “Each of the three channels can be modified with one dedicated aux in, with controls that allow the music maker to mix aux in and inductors independently for each channel.”

The instrument is completely compatible with existing audio setups. It has 3 mono-audio outs and a fourth MIDI out, as well as a USB-C port that can be used as an output or for charging. It also has a stereo output jack that can be used for headphones. These outputs allow the instrument to run through any mixer or directly into a computer.  At its heart, however, the Demon Box creates a new interface to play what has been around us all along but never heard. “Our instruments are for people trying to experience new things,” Fierra says. “The Demon Box is an open palette, and I didn’t want my design decisions to limit people’s view. I wanted to keep the complexity and noise in plain view, so that they can experience these phenomena and realize that the noise can be a good thing. The chaos is the music, or the seed of all new music.”