TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Live coding environments are free, run on the cheapest hardware as well as the latest laptops, and offer new ways of thinking about music and sound that are leading a global movement. And one of the leading tools of that movement just hit a big milestone.

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

Musicians don’t just endure technology when it breaks. They embrace the broken. So it’s fitting that Holly Herndon’s team have produced a demonic spawn of machine learning algorithms – and that the results are wonderful.

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2018

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

Game developers have Unreal Engine and Unity Engine. Well, now it’s audio’s turn. Tracktion Engine is an open source engine based on the guts of a major DAW, but created as a building block developers can use for all sorts of new music and audio tools.

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

Vectors are getting their own festival: lasers and oscilloscopes, go!

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2018

Creative software can now configure itself for control, with OSC

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

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