Live coders from all over the world are playing music and visuals live online, right now

It’s just business as usual for the live coding scene and algorave movement. From every corner of the globe, freely-coded performance is happening for four days straight – now. They come from Brasilia. They come from Detroit. They come from Indonesia and Antwerp, Ukraine and Mumbai, Rome and Miami and Japan. They’re running free software […]

In Russia, vintage MeeBlips have custom clones, thanks to open source hardware

The original version of our MeeBlip synth project has found a quirky new iteration in St. Petersburg – and it’s making some terrific grooves.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2020

That time in 1965 when a teen Ray Kurzweil made a computer compose music and met LBJ

At age 17, Ray Kurzweil – he of the “singularity” – wrote a pioneering piece of “AI” music software, and showed it off on a TV show with Steve Allen.

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2020

Bionic synthesis: artists make music with a prosthetic arm, eye motion

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2020

The Wall of Sound reimagines a sampler-sequencer for public space and use

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2020

Welcome to Hell: the marvelous, mad musical instruments of Ewa Justka

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2020

Afrorack and Africa’s first DIY modular synth make some wild, delicious grooves

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2020

New KORG kits with tubes: Nu:Tekt headphone amp, valve overdrive

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2020

Tesla just added music-making tool Trax to their car dashboard

Peter Kirn - December 27, 2019

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