Boards of Canada played in lightbulbs: restored 1959 PDP-1 performance

This is truly haunting — the sound of a vintage machine’s lightbulbs hooked up to audio inputs, proving it can be more Boards of Canada than the actual Boards of Canada. Even the sound of loading up the punch cards and flipping the switches is oddly soothing. And more rabbit holes await.

User interface for Creature From the ID, featuring dials, VU meters, and a hexagonal organization with oscillators on the two sides and mixing and send controls at the center.

Creature from the ID lets you live your 50s sci-fi soundtrack fantasies

The latest Giorgio Sancristoforo creation is an instrument inspired by the self-generating electronic circuits of Louis and Bebe Barron. Voyage to a Forbidden Planet on your computer.

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2024

Berna is now on Windows, too, so your Mac or PC can be a historical experimental sound lab

Now your Windows PC can also enter the exciting world of sound synthesis of the 1950s. Here’s news on Berna3 for Windows, plus some tutorial content to get you up to speed.

Peter Kirn - October 25, 2021

Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2021

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