Nitecaller has made a gorgeous analog reimagining of ARP 2600, Odyssey

Naarm/Melbourne’s own Nitecaller is making dreamy sounds- and now has the home-built dreamy synth to match. Meet the T-16 semi-modular synth, recreating and expanding on the analog circuits of classic ARPs, built by Nitecaller and his brother.

bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025

Take fifteen minutes and watch the sun come up with hazy ambient music

Mixing MiniDV video, Roland JUNO-6 sounds, and gauzy analog processing, Dawn is a calming fifteen-minute break. The film is “an ambient, peaceful project for an uneasy time,” writes creator Benjamin Tennikoff.

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2024

The Speak & Spell is reborn as a chaos monster and glitchy groovebox

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2024

Nina, 12-voice analog polysynth with motorized controls, now in preorders

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022

Modul8, new synth magazine from Australia, packed with interviews and features – on paper

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2022

The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021

Here’s the biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere, in a free sample library

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2019

Inside Melbourne rave history – including cyberspace, Julian Assange

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2018

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