Amazon’s AWS DeepComposer is peak not-knowing-what-AI-is-for

AI can be cool. AI can be strange. AI can be promising, or frightening. Here’s AI at totally uncool and not frightening at all – bundled with a crappy MIDI keyboard, for … some … reason.

Australia is using sound to monitor its wildlife and ecosystem

Listen to the Earth – no, literally. Australia has a world’s-first project to map the voice of its wildlife, which will make a “galaxy of sounds” that can be heard like the ecosystem’s heartbeat.

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2019

MeeBlip Black Friday: thru5 kit for $9.99 and geode synth $129

Overwhelmed with music toys? We can get you a bass synth that sounds like no other – plus a way to connect all your gear for $10. Happy Black Friday to you. geode: $129 synth hardware, ships free First, there’s our very own MeeBlip geode hardware synth. It’s just US$129, and this week only, we’ll […]

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2019

Deezer’s Spleeter is an open source AI tool to split stems, for remixes or … karaoke?

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2019

HUMAN EXTINCTION PARTY is all the AI-generated gore and death metal you can stream

Peter Kirn - November 11, 2019

mutateful is a must-have, free live coding tool for Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2019

This is the new MeeBlip thru5 kit, a cheep and cheery MIDI splitter

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2019

Some brutal handmade electronic sounds live, from Balfa

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2019

Make an ultra-simple DIY oscillator, inspired by vintage Heathkit

Peter Kirn - October 3, 2019

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