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Hear and visualize how city soundscapes changed during pandemic lockdowns
At the meeting point of humans, nature, and the urban landscape, parks in five cities paint a fascinating portrait of transformed lives.
ReEQ is a free plugin so good, it’s a reason to use REAPER – and it keeps getting better
Cockos’ REAPER is the stupidly affordable but endlessly customizable DAW. Just one example – this free sixteen-band EQ and spectrum analyzer, created by a user in Reaper’s JSFX*, for free, does just about everything.
Watch Afrorack play his modular and home-built instruments live
Raw, fierce electric sounds emanate from this more abstract set by Afrorack, aka Brian Bamanya, of Uganda. Now you get a rich video from Berlin’s CTM Festival earlier this year.
Qu-Bit’s Surface is a cute physical modeling gem of a voice for Eurorack
Sure, there are lots of ways to emulate plucked strings and the like in modular. But this one little voice packs a ton of physical modeling in a little space – 8 voices worth.
You can now patch in Pd inside VCV Rack – modular modular free free
VCV Rack offers loads of choices of modules. But what if you want to build your own? Then there’s Prototype – and now it works with the free graphical patching environment Pure Data, so you can create without coding.
Reaktor 6.4 lets all builders make their own Blocks for Racks – hello, more modular toys
The latest free Reaktor build lets anyone make their own modular Blocks in Racks, with front-panel patching – and that means more toys and power for everybody.
Watch stunning live sets, AV from SET Festival Tehran, In-between Conditions Tbilisi
Beam yourself to Iran and Georgia as curators there assemble engrossing audiovisual art and live music sets from around the world. It’s all presented in virtual form. First – to Tehran. SET SET Festival is a half decade-old platform in the Iranian capital, which has acted as a hub both for the audiovisual and experimental […]
Don’t miss the visceral electroacoustic performances of Rojin Sharafi
Tehran-born, Vienna-based artist Rojin Sharafi plays electroacoustic music that’s kinetic, complex, and grippingly powerful. But just watch.
Games as art, music as game medium, in free festival online: A MAZE.
You couldn’t come to Berlin for Synthposium. But in this year of the virtual, you can explore electronic media from anywhere, without a plane ticket, at A MAZE. It’s relevant to the moment – and can be relevant to music and visual performance, too.