Compassion through algorithms: live coding Algorave giving to Palestinians

They gathered for 24 hours in 70 live coding performances from around the world. Now Algorave has a 55-track album “full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity, and culture.” All that plus extra videos from their recent livestream and more. At a time when computer tech is all about extraction, it’s refreshing to see an actual community that’s using code to give.

Lethelium, a 24-string instrument fashioned from a bicycle wheel

You can pluck it, strike it, bow it, use your fingers, use a pick. The Lethelium is upcycled from bicycle parts and imagined in a cycle-punk zombie comic where bike parts save civilization. And all of this could only come from the imagination of Montreal artist Lateef Martin, an artist who lives a sci-fi reality others might only dream of. Or as Lateef puts it: “it reinvents the wheel.”

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2025

Roland’s pedal concept uses AI to let you process everything with anything

The concept prototype Project LYDIA by Roland Future Design Lab uses machine learning tech from Neutone to turn any input into a “tone.” But this isn’t just about “modeling” — far from it. It lets you process anything with anything else. Beatboxing, field recordings — anything becomes an input. That emphasis on sampling and messing around in the real world might make it the opposite of genAI sound. This is tech that demands you go out and play.

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2025

Coffee cups, pizza boxes, everything’s an instrument: watch clipping. play

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025

Free Envion Deepscan turns your hard drive’s lost files into a soundscape

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025

Data Knot for Max is machine learning as musicians want it: human-focused

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025

NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025

Inside Kyiv’s hackerspace, a growing DIY synth and experimental noise scene

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2025

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