Watch as music luminaries revisit the first Buchla 100 modular

You can’t watch the Orville Brothers and Amelia Earhart go to your local airport. But you can watch music pioneers revisit the first Buchla 100 modular.

Watch this crew go transhuman in the absorption chamber

“Well, it’s not really anything new” (or some variant) is a phrase heard at music and media shows perhaps as often as “I’m going for a smoke” or “where’s the toilet?” But this raises a question. Forget for a second what an audience thinks is new – sound or look or technology or whatever. What […]

Peter Kirn - May 12, 2017

Enter the wondrous world of Walter Giers’ electronic sound art

Few people could make circuits into art quite like Walter Giers. He made them into visual objects, into aesthetic and design statements, into loud and even “annoying” performative constructions, into instruments. They aren’t simply utilitarian means to an end, but imaginative medium. Electronic Beats takes a look into Walter Giers’ mind this week in a […]

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2017

This group of practitioners is imagining the future of the accordion

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2016

Look inside the world of cassette tape culture in this short film

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2016

808 documentary gets release as Apple exclusive in December

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2016

Sail to Samos with vintage BBC to find Pythagorean tunings

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2016

Meet the Subharchord, subharmonic organ of the DDR

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2016

Watch a 1986 TV story on house music, plus too many documentaries

Peter Kirn - August 28, 2015

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