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jumango made a synth you can tuck in so it goes to sleep
Soundmaking and music can fill you with energy, so much so that you might miss out on the importance of a good night’s sleep. jumango has engineered a solution: tuck this DIY synth into a blanket, and it falls asleep.
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Maggi Payne, photographing crystals, composing for Moog modular III, more
Texas-born composer Maggi Payne has just quietly been busy being a legend over decade after decade. Well known to Mills College (as its Center for Contemporary Music co-director until 2018), if you don’t know her, you should. And this is just the kind of Sunday to gaze at some crystals and listen to her ethereal textures on the then already-vintage Moog modular Series III, in a tip straight from The Bob Moog Foundation.
Peter Kirn - May 17, 2026
Tech
Disquiet’s Junto is community music making — now in its 750th edition
It’s been running continuously, without a break, since 2012. Every Thursday morning, Disquiet’s Marc Weidenbaum posts a call to a community for a new compositional assignment. And this week, the project reaches the 750th (!) week. That means a call for something epic.
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2026
Music
High schoolers can learn production at Eastman this summer: interview
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2026
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