The dorky recorder you had in school just got a futuristic remake

The recorder’s simplicity has made it ubiquitous in music education. Digital builders want to refresh it and make it cool – and no, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke.

An injury left Olafur Arnalds unable to play, so he turned to machines

Following nerve damage, Icelandic composer/producer/musician was unable to play the piano. With his ‘Ghost Pianos’, he gets that ability back, through intelligent custom software and mechanical pianos.

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2019

dadamachines is an open toolkit for making robotic musical instruments

There was a time when using controllers to play music was still novel. Building them was a technically complicated task, limited to a handful of individuals – most of whom had to keep solving the same basic problem of how to get started over and over again. Now, we know, that’s no longer the case. […]

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2017

Tested: Chromaphone 2 has kinder, gentler acoustic modeling

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2016

These piano breakthroughs changed music forever

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2016

Watch Una Corda, a software piano with a difference

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2016

Bach Played on Tubes Will Remind You That Acoustic is Fun

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2015

MIDI Makes an Augmented Harp Performance Like None You’ve Heard

Peter Kirn - February 19, 2015

Perfect, Beautiful Music for Free From Erased Tapes [2014 in Review]

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2015

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