Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

What if Neanderthal music had evolved alongside human sounds, or if Andean quipus shaped computer music, or if Les Paul had played the viola da gamba? Polish design house panGenerator gives us a look.

Journey to the forests of the Amazon and Poland with blind artist Izabela Dłużyk

Now is a time to listen more deeply. Sound artist Izabela Dłużyk, blind since birth, launched a crowdfunding campaign to “dream despite blindness” back in 2016 to travel to Peruvian rainforest. We can sonically travel with her in a full-length album of field recordings, The Amazon — Where the Moon Wept.

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024

monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch

The iconic monome grid just got native support from Cycling ’74’s RNBO, the patching tool for exporting Max sounds on other hardware and software environments. There’s a fun, free example patch to get you started, too.

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024

Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024

Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024

Lisbon this week will be a haven for DIY sound, video synthesis, and AV

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2024

Hey hackers: Novation’s Launchkey Programmer’s Reference Guide

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2024

Learn to make animated Max and Max for Live UIs: jsui, Figma

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2024

Erica Synths made a perfect Eurorack-ready breadboard DIY playground

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2024

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