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Here’s half an hour of string-reed Werner Durand and John Krausbauer drones

Do you love drones? I mean, like you’re craving nothing more than aggressive drones coming right into your ears from violin and self-made reed instruments for 27 minutes, 28 seconds straight? The legendary Werner Durand and John Krausbauer have you covered on label-for-the-heads Moving Furniture Records out of Amsterdam. And then we take a side trip to time crystals, images, and sounds to discover from La Monte Young and Jung Hee Choi.

Nazar’s “Demilitarize” sees the artist channeling Ghost in the Shell

Nazar’s Demilitarize, out this month on Hyperdub, is essential listening – reimagined Angolan kuduro DNA woven into a sound world inspired by processing trauma and absorbing the ethos of anime classic Ghost in the Shell. It follows two releases that responded to the civil war with an imaginative, intimate coda.

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2025

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Free NAP Framework gets gorgeous rendering, non-profit organization

NAP Framework, the free and open-source, lightweight, open-source framework for artists and designers now looks and runs better than before. And keeping it free, there’s now a non-profit NAP Labs organization – while the creators merge with partners Studio DRIFT.