Bristol gets a new free community studio from Batu; the beauty of public access

Bristol-based DJ/producer Batu sends word of a new community access studio he’s founded in his city. It’s a reminder of the value this kind of space can have – especially right now. All of music has been hit hard by the pandemic – starved not just of venues to play, but also the connections, friends, […]

Bleep it out with Fenix, the Dutch modular you’ve probably never heard of

The Synton Fenix has been used by the likes of Martin Gore and has a story interwoven with decades of Dutch synth history. Here’s your chance to discover this little-known gem – and learn some synth technique you can apply to your own software/hardware modulars!

Apple Music goes Lossless, Spatial, Dolby Atmos

Apple will update its Apple Music subscription service in June with a no-cost addition of new sound features. But more than that, it hints at a world of music listening generally that dumps lossy compression and embraces spatial sound. And you can get started mixing for it right away.

A new Machinima age is nigh, with NVIDIA, AI, game effects and faces and poses

When artists can get their hands on the latest NVIDIA GPUs, expect a bumper crop of AI-assisted poses and faces and music videos. The toys keep coming – NVIDIA Machinima just hit public beta.

Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here

The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded forest. Canilla’s latest creation deserves a full listen – so let’s premiere it here together, right now.

Shaper2 is futuristic, glitchy, aggressive K-Devices plug-in waveshaper FX goodness

Feeling destructive? K-Devices’ Shaper2 is a fast route to digital edginess, it’s on discount now. And it is not mentally demanding – it’s a beautiful magical Thor’s hammer, in a good way. There are quite a lot of waveshapers about. But K-Devices has combined a number of harmonious (or rather intentionally disharmonious) modules for particularly […]

Deep Bitwig tips: learn modular patching on The Grid, integrate with NI controllers

Bitwig has posted some really useful deep-dive tutorials lately. That includes building up your own from-scratch tools in the modular environment The Grid – and working with integration with Maschine+/MK3 and NI keyboards.

Futuristic AV, EPs from Mexico’s Interspecifics, CNDSD, Iván Abreu

It’s a dark and uncertain time across Latin America, so sending some serious love to everyone. All the more reason to take in the futuristic voices in today’s hybrid MUTEK session, from our friends Interspecifics and CNDSD + Iván Abreu.

RIP Joel Chadabe, a leader of electronic music, interactive musicianship, and teaching

Joel Chadabe was a composer who helped launch the notion of interactive music systems and electronic music education as it has now come to spread around the world. He passed at the start of this week, even as he continued educational work through this year.

At last, AAS deliver their new software modular generation: Multiphonics CV-1

Software modular is everywhere these days, but AAS are one of the developers who defined the genre. So a ground-up new tool from them is big news – and it has all the sonic and physical modeling goodness you’d expect.