The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs – and they’re easy enough to make. bassling from Australia sends in this how-to from Australia, to get you started. There, of course, it’s fall, meaning this could be viewed in the “spooky Halloween” territory […]

Here’s what happens when HÖR Berlin DJ sets are reimagined with AI

Vinyl, then digital… now meet meta-DJing. OÍR by Moisés Horta Valenzuela imagines what would happen if one machine learning-powered DJ set could combine all those DJ sets streaming out of Berlin. And what happens? It slaps. It slaps so hard that someone asks for a track ID.

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2021

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

Miller Puckette, the original creator of Max and Pure Data, has been working on keeping connected remotely, too. In this video, he reveals how he plays with a percussionist using Pd and Ableton Live, then joins Cycling ’74’s David Zicarelli to talk about the future of collaboration in modular environments.

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

OSC to MIDI conversion and MIDI over network, with a free, open source tool

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2021

Watch this entertaining how-to on hacking Mutable’s Plaits for just intonation

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2021

Inside a note: explore minimalism with Björk home studio visits

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2021

1930s Soviet optical synthesis animation looks positively futuristic after 4K restoration

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2021

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