---
title: "Adorable Video Shows Elon Musk’s Baby Playing a Synthesizer"
description: "Elon Musk and Grime's baby created some great loops on his mother's synthesizer the other day. A video of the set was posted on mom's Instagram story."
date: "2021-03-20"
modified: "2021-03-20"
authors:
  - name: "Tony Ho Tran"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ttran"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/adorable-video-shows-elon-musks-baby-playing-synthesizer"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "grimes"
  - "the digest"
  - "x Æ a-xii"
---

# Adorable Video Shows Elon Musk’s Baby Playing a Synthesizer

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MOSHED-2021-3-20-14-1-50.jpg>)
*Grimes via Instagram \<em\>Image: Grimes via Instagram\</em\>*

## X Æ A-XII Drops a Beat

Elon Musk and Claire "Grimes" Boucher might have a future music producer on their hands.

Grimes posted a video to [her Instagram Story](<https://www.instagram.com/grimes/>) of the couple’s baby, X Æ A-XII, playing with her synthesizer and making some impromptu beats. The adorable baby beamed with joy as he composed loops and flexed his inherited melodic abilities. At one point, he stared up at his mother to laugh at his creation.

If the videos are an early indication of things to come, little baby X might be following in his mother’s footsteps when he grows up.

Watch and listen below:

https://twitter.com/gailalfa1/status/1372520305059639299

## One Expensive Baby Toy

Though Grimes and Musk aren't exactly hurting for money at the moment, it’s worth mentioning that the synthesizer the baby was playing with is not exactly cheap.

In fact, the [Teenage Engineering OP-1 Portable Synthesizer](<https://www.guitarcenter.com/Teenage-Engineering/OP-1-Portable-Synthesizer-1367851260405.gc>) is going to run you about $1,299, according to [*BuzzFeed*](<https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/grimes-baby-synth?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bftwbuzzfeed&ref=bftwbuzzfeed&>)*.* Luckily, if you qualify for the stimulus checks, you’ll have enough to buy it with a little left over.

## Wait, How Do You Pronounce That Again?

Though it’s always nice to see what the billionaire’s baby is up to, it’s easy to forget how his complex name is pronounced.

(Let’s be honest: [His parents did him ](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-claim>)[*no* ](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-claim>)[favors in this department](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-claim>).)

But it’s pretty straightforward — at least according to Musk.

"It's just X, the letter X. And then the Æ is, like, pronounced 'ash.’ And then A-12 is my contribution," Musk said on a May 2020 [appearance on ](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8>)[*The Joe Rogan Experience*](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8>).

So "ex ash ay twelve." A great name for a future electronica star, to be honest.

**More on Grimes:** [*Grimes Says She’ll Move to Mars for “Manual Labor Until Death”*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-mars-manual-labor-death>)

## Author
Tony Tran is a former reporter for Futurism, and now an editor at the Daily Beast. His work has been seen in Playboy, HuffPost, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago where he frequently plans tabletop gaming sessions for his friends.