This has been a season of obituaries, but when it comes to music, tributes can’t be silent. Francis Preve has a special set of free sounds on his Symplesound platform.
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Arash Azadi’s music returns to primordial states of human existence
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Peak 90s Opcode in a Vision training tape, NIN music video
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Make a 909 kick on the Make Noise 0-Coast, and more drum modeling fun
Forget even all the music that was made with it for a second. How the sound of a TR-909 kick was made can open new doors.
Yaeltex V2: any music and visual controller hardware you imagine, made real
Finally, an open browser tab can bring you something good for your music and performance – like helping you build your dream controller, visually. A first look at Yaeltex V2.
In Slovakia, the rave goes on: social distancing with a taped-off grid for dancers
How do you party without putting people at risk – but without killing the reason for partying in the first place? Here’s Slovakia with a novel concept. It’s not that we haven’t had ideas for nightlife in the era of social distancing. It’s that a lot of those take something crucial away. Here in Berlin, […]
Eye see: visual live-programming vvvv comes together online
Visual development environment vvvv is at it again, with a worldwide meetup of leading artists – and a ground-up new release, too.
Your snares are weak; here are the free snares (and kicks) you need in Live, from Dial F
What does it take to make snares hot again? This free Live rack, that’s what. Dial F aka David Abravanel has been cooking up new music and more sounds – and stick around for exhaustive kicks. Notes and download for Live 10 are all on Google Drive: Snare Synth download, Rack, and demo project It […]
Voltage Modular 2.0 – more features, more modules, more friendly – plus how to use it, free
Software modular just keeps getting better. Cherry Audio’s Voltage Modular looks like a top contender, with a major (free) 2.0 update and changes to support free and affordable module add-ons. https://cherryaudio.com/news/2020-05-19/voltage-modular-2-0-is-here Where Cherry fits Just think how rich and accessible the modular world is in software – and Cherry just made it more so. VCV […]
Fall into the dislocated, glitching rituals of Microhm, latest project of Mexico’s Leslie Garcia
Life post-apocalypse is mysterious, but somehow comforting – a digitally generated, AI-assisted woven blanket of sounds. There is calm in uncertainty – once you adapt. At least that’s the feeling I get personally, listening to the glitching electro-acoustic ambiance of Microohm, Infinita Incertidumbre. There are yawning caverns, gently shuffling rhythms, persistent electronic rattles and beeps […]
Feed yourself with a free cookbook from Korg and the electronic music and synth community
Here’s a different sort of compilation and synth collaboration – KORG Germany in Berlin invited the likes of Joan La Barbara, Suzanne Ciani, Alva Noto, Dave Smith, and a lot of us relative newcomers, too, to make a cookbook. And it’s free to download.
Scene flashback – a who’s who of Detroit techno, circa 1997 on MTV
Simone Angel from MTV Party Zone did an extended set of interviews with the Detroiters in 1997. And it’s honestly about as many people from this scene as you can cram into one place. If I had posted this this time last year, it might have felt like nostalgia. But now 1997 feels roughly the […]