Remembering experimental idol and Pan Sonic founder Mika Vainio

Finnish musician Mika Vainio is likely an inspiration to anyone who loves the sensation of electrified sound in its raw form – bare, exposed, vibrating, voltaic. Mika Vainio is a thread running through so much of experimentalism in the past three decades of electronic music – noise to industrial to techno. News reaches us today […]

KOMA’s Field Kit, connecting contacts pickups, and motors, is now reality

So much of the idea of signal and the definition of an audio “mixer” is fixed, we’ve begun to take these concepts for granted. Microphones plus line level, into some faders — that’s what a mixer is. But why does it have to be that way? By creating a new instrument around connecting to contact […]

Peter Kirn - April 7, 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

Two hours of video covers over a century of history of sound art

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2017

Volnovod is a robot sculpture that uses wire to make sound visually

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2017

raster-noton’s elusive Grischa Lichtenberger on creative sound

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - December 30, 2016

FEEDBOXES are autonomous sound toys that play along with you

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2016

A piano, played by clouds and sky

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2016

Micro-ritmos turns bacteria and machine learning into spatialized sound

Peter Kirn - November 11, 2016

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