Happy Monday; immerse your workday and soundscape in Severance

To aid in your professional merriment, here’s a complete round-up of Severance stuff, from behind-the-scenes discussion of the show’s sound design and score to an eight-hour mix of “music to refine to.”|

How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win

Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025

Noise Surround System makes spatial audio kinetic, mechanical

To tackle the issue of noise pollution, Warszawa’s panGenerator brought immersive, spatial sound to the philharmonic. But they didn’t make that spatial audio virtual: tracks, skateboard motors, and speakers on karts put this installation into physical motion.

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025

Premiere: Vexillary’s “Animalic” 3D music video channels Alien, Venom

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2023

The road to Synplant 2: the story behind this mind-bending plug-in sequel

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2023

Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2023

Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2022

May the 4th be with you, in a new documentary on the sounds of Skywalker

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2022

Get lost in magical 1983 footage of Brilliant Trees, delicate IBM Dictaphone looping

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2022

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