Laurie Spiegel’s Music Mouse, the Mac’s first instrument, in Eventide reboot

It’s 1986. Laurie Spiegel creates something unlike any software available at the time — an “intelligent,” algorithmic composer you can play as an instrument, for Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST. You’re at NAMM, and it’s 2026. Surprising everyone, Eventide announces they’re working with Spiegel to bring the original software to modern computers, preserving a breakthrough moment in digital music making. The mouse is back.

As much triggering as you can handle: Noise Engineering Multi Repetitor

Tough times and tight spaces call for deep algorithmic generative triggers. So now is a great time for Noise Engineering to reimagine their trigger module. Tap a tempo, patch a cord, and instantly spin up percussive patterns you can freely modulate — the best of what the company gave us before, but now with live performance transformations and more possibilities. It’s Multi Repetitor. It’s Multi Repetitor. Sorry.

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2026

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

It all starts with the envelope, so that even a few milliseconds of sound can generate “thousands of sonic trajectories.” Built entirely in the free, open-source Pure Data, Envion is a deep compositional playground. You can think of it like an algorithmic drum machine. Emiliano Pennisi shares his creation with us.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025

COLLIDZ° generates detailed ambient music, on its own or with a candy store worth of features

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2021

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

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2019

Automated techno: Eternal Flow generates dance music for you

Peter Kirn - April 29, 2019

Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019

Exploring machine learning for music, live: Gamma_LAB AI

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2019

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