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Cook every day: read Suzanne Ciani’s 1976 Buchla Cookbook, for free
In 1976, Suzanne Ciani reported back to the USA’s National Endowment for the Arts with a report on her compositions, in the form of a modular cookbook. Now you can read her notes and follow along using entirely free software, complete with sound examples. I love overusing the cookbook metaphor, maybe just because food is […]
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Adam Wiltzie talks about his posthumous collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson
On Friendship Survival Guide, constructed from an archive of loops and sound exchanges, it’s as if Jóhann Jóhannsson is alive again. Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars of the Lid and part of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, talks to us about the process, and about the perfect and fleeting personal and creative connection the two artist shared.
Modor DR-2 – a delicious, overlooked drum machine – adds trig conditions
Massive sound, lots of unique tricks, hard-hitting personality, onboard basslines — more people should be talking about the Modor DR-2. And amidst the blizzard of news last month, you might have missed that it now does trig conditions. OS014 landed at the end of December, so we may have missed it while we were all […]
Peter Kirn - February 6, 2026
Gear Music tech Tech
Get dark and strange with this free GodHatesGodRecords compilation
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2026
Music
This may be the 808 Marvin Gaye used to make ‘Sexual Healing’
Peter Kirn - August 8, 2018
Stories
Now your Nord can sound like the very first Steinway, No. 1
Peter Kirn - January 16, 2017
Stories
