Music Reviews
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.
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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
Gear Music tech Tech
How video signal processing emerged as real-time art
As we continue giving you the virtual version of the electronic media and music festivals you’ve been missing, here’s a flashback to a fascinating history of video processing as art form.
Free download: A 400-page guide to experimental Eastern Europe sounds
Peter Kirn - January 29, 2019
Music Music tech Stories
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
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Digging the Asian and African undergrounds with C-drík Kirdec
Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - August 24, 2016
Music Music tech
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