“Art is a struggle against nothingness,” says Pharoos from Hormuz. TIMEZONES, the series produced by Norient, we’ve visited before. Their planned June episode on Tehran was delayed by war. Now is a perfect time to take in its threads, woven from multiple voices in a narrative that flows gently, as if in a breeze.

It’s a hot Max for Live summer: here are three more don’t-miss tools for Max for Live for you. There’s a tool to bounce MIDI without the usual manual legwork. There’s a controller app that lets you play Live with gamepads. And there’s the synth follow-up to the blockbuster acid sequencer Sting! Let’s go:

DJ software should make managing your music library easier — in theory. In practice, the leading DJ apps have been pretty stuck in their ways for a while now. Serato is answering users’ pleas with a redesigned library in the new Serato DJ Pro 4.0 release, available in public beta.

Summer sales are on, and even with more trade tariff uncertainty looming in the USA, that includes some surprising cut-rate deals on hardware synths. Here’s your guide to some favorites, including a great mini keyboard/Moog soft synth bundle.

The all-new architecture for macOS VJ mainstay VDMX6 has opened up a ton of powerful new features. If you haven’t caught them already, and you’ve got a Mac, now is a great time to dive in. Why not cosplay Hari Seldon from Foundation and turn yourself into a glitchy hologram?

“The future is now … you have to do everything you can to actually make it stop now. You have to persist with your faith and also your practice.” In a film released today, Palestinian musician and sound artist Dirar Kalash reflects on stopping genocide and the nature of sound and humanity. Fellow composer Sami El-Enany directs and pieces together the sonic story.

Rattle the walls and rumble the foundation with this one. Kinlaw & Franco Franco, the Amman-Bristol duo, have a release coming on Jordanian underground imprint Drowned By Locals, and it’s powerful enough to part seas.

Switch 2, sure, but — have you plugged a tiny piano into a Nintendo DS and used some powerful homebrew software and custom scripts to make a handheld experimental music instrument?

It’s about time. British synthesis history can get short shrift compared to the legends of the USA and Japan. Alex Ball has made the documentary that the Novation Bass Station deserves, from its roots with EDP and OSC, to the massive bass synth’s 1992 debut, up to the present day.

AirWindows, if you aren’t already in the know, is a planetary treasure. Developer Chris Johnson has built a massive playground of DSP, available for free/Patreon donationware. And this time, he’s created something he says is “not normal.” What was supposed to be a brutal guitar sound went off the rails. But don’t let that stop you from getting onboard.