Erica’s Pico System III is a tiny, 450 EUR West Coast modular rig

The newest Erica system is an exercise in minimalism – analog, fit in a single unit. The price and size are absolutely as low as you can go – but with some deep sound capabilities.

SPICE is a one-stop modular distortion box – and it needs support

Saturation, distortion, warmth, fuzz – it’s what keeps a lot of us coming back to machines. SPICE is a modular distortion on Kickstarter, suitable for Eurorack or desktop use alike – and it’s getting reader attention partly because it isn’t over the funding line quite yet.

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2019

What makes music and creativity? A talk with Susan Rogers

What makes creativity work in music? What happens in the brain? Susan Rogers has uniquely contemplated those questions both alongside artists like Prince and in research into the mind.

Peter Kirn - July 4, 2018

Watch five hours of one of SONAR’s best stages in video

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2018

Venezuela to Berlin, Hyperaktivist on MESS, love, and music community

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2018

Watch Suzanne Ciani, thinkers on open music and future machines

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2017

Tinami’s MIDI controllers look like Moogerfoogers, built to order

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2017

Steps is an iOS sequencer that works in your hand, sequences hardware

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2017

raster-noton founders on how they found visual inspiration

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2016

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