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

Meemo Comma, interviewed: Lara Rix Martin’s deep-space futurist Jewish mysticism

David Abravanel - March 26, 2021

Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2021

Pedals: The Musical, where pedals sing to you about their history, is an actual thing

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2021

Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize

Peter Kirn - March 16, 2021

Escaping tuning’s restrictive default setting – a conversation with Khyam Allami

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2021

Sonic worlds, liberated: listen to performances on the free tuning tool Apotome

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2021

Artists have joined an urgent, epic-length compilation for Myanmar

Peter Kirn - March 2, 2021