A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra

Reimagine pixels and color, melt your screen live into glitches and textures, and do it all for free on the Web – as you play with others. We talk to Olivia Jack about her invention, live coding visual environment Hydra.

Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live

Instead of just accepting all this machine learning hype, why not put it to the test? Magenta Studio lets you experiment with open source machine learning tools, standalone or inside Ableton Live.

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Arturia’s new experimental synth – and Mutable Instruments’ role

It was only a matter of time before some of the craziness of the modular world came to desktop synths, too. Arturia’s new MicroFreak is a budget keyboard with a weird streak.

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2019

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Jlin, Holly Herndon, and ‘Spawn’ find beauty in AI’s flaws

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2018

The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018

Deep Synth combines a Game Boy and the THX sound

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2018

Hack a Launchpad Pro into a 16-channel step sequencer, free

Peter Kirn - September 11, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

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