Georgian-made Ambient audio is bringing home-grown modular to the Caucasus

Buy local: the world of gear for musicians is opening up to independent makers in more places. That includes Tbilisi-based Ambient audio, who are making everything from glowing and recycled patch cables to modular kits.

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or the reclaimed science of fluidics and swirls of water? Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Ioana Vreme Moser asks those questions in her work, today at CTM Festival, in a discussion you can catch live online.

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala’s latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like “photon clarinet.” The father of circuit bending also espouses a new conceptual frame and philosophy – errism. And to err is human, but also is cat.

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2022

New KORG kits with tubes: Nu:Tekt headphone amp, valve overdrive

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2020

The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2019

8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2018

Oi, Kant! is a raunchy, glitchy, out-of-control patchable groove machine

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2018

Fantasy Mansion is an EP that’s also a generative, 8-bit circuit with sync

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2017

A patchable, circuit bent Sony Discman turns into a glitch instrument

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2017

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