RIP Joel Chadabe, a leader of electronic music, interactive musicianship, and teaching

Joel Chadabe was a composer who helped launch the notion of interactive music systems and electronic music education as it has now come to spread around the world. He passed at the start of this week, even as he continued educational work through this year.

At last, AAS deliver their new software modular generation: Multiphonics CV-1

Software modular is everywhere these days, but AAS are one of the developers who defined the genre. So a ground-up new tool from them is big news – and it has all the sonic and physical modeling goodness you’d expect.

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2021

Music for orangutans, as Lyra Pramuk and Rani Jambak connect to Sumatra’s ecosystem

The music flows easily, entangled like vines, in a production constructed between Berlin and Indonesia over Zoom. But in these serene melodies, there is a plea for the ecosystem of North Sumatra.

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2021

Splice Studio is free backup, version control, and collaboration for your DAW

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2021

Surprise – NVIDIA’s AI and graphics news today for big industry is relevant to artists, too

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2021

Premiere: Dark Forces by The Allegorist plunges us into a gorgeously surreal, shamanistic future

Peter Kirn - April 9, 2021

Roland SYSTEM-8 synth is free to try in April – here’s why it’s a sound designer’s friend

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2021

Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2021

Inside MTS-ESP, the new tuning tool from Oddsound and Aphex Twin

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2021

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