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.

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

It’s a sequencer. It’s a generative music maker. It’s microtonal. It’s packed with synth engines and effects. But if other tools get you stuck in presets, this world-builder for Reaktor makes each preset and parameter a gateway to something creative and unexpected.

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2022

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

It’s a dark and uncertain time across Latin America, so sending some serious love to everyone. All the more reason to take in the futuristic voices in today’s hybrid MUTEK session, from our friends Interspecifics and 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

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

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