Music Reviews
Deeply-felt house and brutal techno – now Akua Grant deserves support
Industry trends and power grabs ultimately suck all our souls dry. So let’s return to the originators making the music, and support both the music and the humans making the music. Akua Grant, aka Femanyst, aka Lady Blacktronika, is one of the most naturally intuitive and imaginative producers I know. She’s also in need, and it’s way past time that the music translates into real sustenance.
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Female artists and AV blockbusters at Tehran Contemporary Sounds
A focus on female composers and electronic artists from Iran – alongside big AV productions like CDM favorites Temp-Illusion – is front and center at Tehran Contemporary Sounds in Berlin this weekend. If you can’t be there, we’ve got a big lineup of music to queue up.
Bitwig Studio and TouchDesigner can now play one another
Welp, now that we’ve been putting modular environments inside modules inside modular rigs, next we get to make TouchDesigner play Bitwig Studio and Bitwig Studio play TouchDesigner — and Bitwig’s modular The Grid and TouchDesigner’s modular UI interact. It’s all coming on the eve of the TouchDesigner Roundtable in Berlin – and it’s even part of the official Touch build. 3D and generative visuals, meet the DAW.
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2023
Motion Music tech Software Tech
Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal
Peter Kirn - September 14, 2023
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Stories Tech
Superbooth Berlin will return in 2024; kick back with some 2023 highlights
Peter Kirn - August 28, 2023
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Watch Hexorcismos make AI performative and personal in this live show
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2023
DIY + Unusual Music Software Tech
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