AbuQadim Haqq’s 33 Years of Techno Art and Afrofuturism, book and music

Detroit native AbuQadim Haqq, the artist who gave form to the Drexciyan Empire and helped craft the visual identity of Transmat, Planet E, and Underground Resistance, has put 33 years of that imagination into an art book and compilation project.

Tour Beirut’s music underground in a free PDF, from the inside out

Crises are a given; resilience is a given – to slightly bastardize the author’s words on Beirut’s Underground Scene, Hajar Ibrahim’s portrait of a musical world. But in this book, released this summer, what you get is more personal. It’s the underground telling its own story, rather than having one framed for it.

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2023

Traveler takes you on an hour-long Korg retrospective full of synth sounds

Alex Ball has a new documentary out covering 60 years of Korg instruments – complete with loads of synth demos so you’re getting sounds, not just looking at gear pics. I missed this last week when of course Synthtopia was on top of it – hat tip! Even the YouTube algorithm was confused why I […]

Peter Kirn - October 12, 2022

How video signal processing emerged as real-time art

Peter Kirn - July 30, 2020

Vector dreams, in a new book on sound-modulated light

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2019

Free download: A 400-page guide to experimental Eastern Europe sounds

Peter Kirn - January 29, 2019

Here’s what to learn to get a jump start on the new monome thing

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2018

Make Noise are turning a classic 1972 synthesis book into a video series

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2018

Digging the Asian and African undergrounds with C-drík Kirdec

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - August 24, 2016

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