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HyperSplash is glitchy hyperactive fun – $3 Max for Live from MIRA新伝統
If you don’t know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks – $3!! – you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should.
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Funk music history and Black liberation in a full-length documentary, online
Hip hop, new wave, techno, and house are inseparable from funk history – and any discussion of funk in the 1970s demands a conversation about Black liberation. Emmy winner and MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson and Grammy-nominated producer Nicole London have produced a full-length history.
OXI Instruments’ grid sequencer is about to get a big MKII upgrade
OXI ONE MKII is inbound, with preorders about to start. OXI Instruments is taking their packed grid sequencer and adding more of everything, while keeping the compact size. (Missed opportunity not to call this the “one two,” though!)
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2025
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Nasko’s completely free N-IRIS is a spectrum disperser – why that’s cool
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2025
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Knobula Monumatic, the 8-voice, multi-algorithm MPE polysynth in 12HP
Peter Kirn - April 16, 2025
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Benn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise
Peter Kirn - April 15, 2025
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Vela reverb, now in open beta, opens up rich reverbs you can reshape
Peter Kirn - April 14, 2025
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