From Éliane Radigue to West Coast, Homework is a patchable wonder

It’s a modular week, yes, but here are things you can never have too much of: great food, open beaches, modular environments, and Giorgio Sancristoforo sound playgrounds. So here’s Homework, a 4-track cassette recorder, retro effects including granular processor and tape echo, and modular synths inspired by Buchla and ARP. It’s all you need to recreate some Éliane Radigue-inspired drones and float away on a sea of noise.

Turn Ableton Live into a looping 4-track Tascam Portastudio with this Max for Live Device

Ableton Live has freed us from the restrictions of looping and recording with tape. But what’s missing? The restrictions of looping and recording with tape.

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2023

Cassette turntablism is a thing, and you need to watch more tape DJ videos from Japan

DJing was born in hacks, DIY spirit, counterculture – in artists reinventing how machines work. So enough of DJs all using the same machines the same way. Watch what happens when your deck is a deconstructed DIY cassette machine.

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

The Sony cassette recorder that went to space and predicted the Walkman

Peter Kirn - July 24, 2019

Oops: April Fools’, at best, gave us stuff we actually want

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2019

Two free plug-ins and a music label take you into ambient worlds

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2019

Numerical Audio brings us a new virtual tape machine in RE-1

Ashley Elsdon - August 27, 2018

MSXII brings Fly-Tape to iOS because you can’t really have enough cassette FX right?

Ashley Elsdon - May 11, 2018