Superbooth Berlin preview: why the May edition will be an essential music culture event

Superbooth is back in the woods of Köpenick for the second time in under a year – an unmatched meeting point for synths, instruments, and music. Whether you join on CDM or (ideally) come in person in Berlin, here’s what to look forward to in May.

Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer

Swords into plowshares … invading Russian tanks burnt up and made into synths. Sherman Drozd did just that, salvaging a destroyed part from near Kyiv. He shares the full story, and how the instrument was made. Well… Слава Україні! Музикантам слава!

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2022

420 Hz is ultra-chilled music generated from cannabis plants

You knew with all this talk of music generated by plants, someone would try this – electrical signals generated from cannabis plants transformed live into mellow ambient music.

Peter Kirn - April 20, 2022

Musical, powerful live coding in the browser is here with Strudel – child of Tidal

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2022

Dart, a line of open source MIDI and DMX controllers, in wonderfully wacky variations

Peter Kirn - April 6, 2022

Bentō is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box by Giorgio Sancristoforo

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2022

Go check out people making music and visuals by connecting synths to plants

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2022

With AudioThing Noises, a noise generator becomes more than a noise generator

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2022

Teenage Engineering made a robotic LFO out of LEGO – and now offers barebones modules

Peter Kirn - February 11, 2022

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