Music
Radiohead just released 1.8GB of MiniDisc demos on Bandcamp
Gen X and Y just got their Beatles Anthology, basically – and it’s fantastic. Radiohead remind us why we love them with nearly two gigs of demos ripped from (seriously) MiniDiscs.
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Post-album techno: 9 years of live sequence data, from Shawn Rudiman
Here’s techno as it’s lived in the moment – the actual improvised grooves of nine years of live sets, echoed as a flood of glitchy, modem-like sounds from a war-tested Alesis MMT-8 sequencer.
Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more
Machine learning is synthesizing death metal. It might make your death metal radio DJ nervous – but it could also mean music software works with timbre and time in new ways. That news – plus some comical abuse of neural networks for writing genre-specific lyrics in genres like country – next.
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019
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Watch futuristic techno made by robots – then learn how it was made
Peter Kirn - September 12, 2018
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Exploring a journey from Bengali heritage to electronic invention
Peter Kirn - July 16, 2018
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