Stories
These piano breakthroughs changed music forever
Yesterday was Piano Day – a day recently christened by composer/pianist Nils Frahm in order to celebrate that ubiquitous keyboard instrument. (It’s held on the eighty-eighth day of the year.) There are concerts, marathons, project, releases – and unlike Record Store Day, this event won’t clog the ability to produce piano music. With that day […]
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Ableton Does an Event: Loop to be “Summit for Music Makers”
They moved from one flagship software product to adding one piece of flagship hardware. Now there’s a flagship event, too. It’s called “Loop,” and it will be held 30 October – 1 November in Ableton’s headquarter city of Berlin. It’s clearly in part a summit for the Ableton Live community. But just as their recent […]
Peter Kirn - July 17, 2015
Music tech Stories
For Apple, Music Making is For Everybody: New Holiday Ad
We face a challenge in the music technology community. Underlined by a century in which music creation was seen by some as the privilege of a few, in the studio world, and mass music was about records and radio, people might claim music making is niche. It’s seen by those onlookers as the domain of […]
Tools and Music Production, as Explained Unwittingly by Chefs
Peter Kirn - March 20, 2012
Music Music tech
A Reader in Electronic Dance Music’s History and Creation, Now Available
Peter Kirn - December 16, 2011
Music Music tech
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