A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2025

cables, free visual creation patcher on Web and app, gets big updates

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2025

Radio Shack’s TRS-80 now has polyphonic MIDI and a tracker

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2025

Harvestworks, NYC arts center founded in 1977, threatened by US funding cuts

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2025

3D masses, springs, soundmakers: Anukari physics-based instrument

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2025

Therminator, with a curvy abstract glyph of a box with cables and a dot in the center engraved into the 3D-printed case, USB-C and jack connections

Ther’minator by Eric Singer transforms LIDAR to modular, CV

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2025

maxess screenshots overlaid on one another, showing help pages: maxess.element, maxess.file, maxess.keyboard, and maxess.speech running in Max with help commentary.

Maxess, free externals for Max and Max for Live accessibility, available now

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025

Nitecaller has made a gorgeous analog reimagining of ARP 2600, Odyssey

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2025

This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2025

Close-p of vintage TB-303 hardware showing "Computer-Controlled" logo and knobs. "Old Roland TB-303" by Alexandre Dulaunoy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

303 Day: the freaky CDM Megaroundup

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2025