Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches

Patching music and visuals is fun, but it helps to learn from other people. With everything from apps (Audulus) to modulars (Softube, VCV Rack) to code and free software (Pd, SuperCollider, Bela), patchstorage is like a free social network for actually making stuff.

Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Using code for live music has gone from geeky fringe to underground revolution, offering a fresh approach to music and pattern, even for first-time coders. Alex McLean is one of the people at the center of this medium’s growth.

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

Venezuela to Berlin, Hyperaktivist on MESS, love, and music community

From Venezuela to Europe, DJ/producer Hyperaktivist’s passion for music has been about connecting people as it has about connecting music. She talks to us about that process of community building, even in the face of resistance – and shares hours of music mixed with Mohajer at her side.

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2018

The great sounds you’re making remind us why we make MeeBlip

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2017

How a meetup space for female music makers is making a difference

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - December 26, 2016

Grieving for Oakland’s lost, imagining what comes next

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2016

A call for emotion in musical inventions, at Berlin hacklab

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2016

MeeBlip users are posting lots of great sounds of our new triode synth

Peter Kirn - November 10, 2016

How one community was mapping the future of visuals this summer

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2016

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