In quarantined China, concerts and clubs are going online as a safe place to meet

Even in the capital Beijing, once-crowded streets are now empty, as the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak forces people at home. The solution for live musicians: turn to streaming.

Now is your last chance to register for Ableton Loop, coming to Berlin, April 2020

After an edition in LA and a half-year break, the music-making summit hosted by Ableton is coming home to Berlin. Monday is your last chance to register if you want a chance to join. After Live and Push, Loop has become a kind of third major product from Ableton. It isn’t an event about Live […]

Peter Kirn - November 3, 2019

8 hours of Dance with Pride radio, broadcast from an ex-prostitution window

Amsterdam collective Dance with Pride’s launched an eight hour takeover of Red Light Radio over the weekend. It’s worth a listen, covering the gamut from sex worker activists to “cheap Moroccan music”. Dance with Pride got its start as a way of bridging activism around LGBTQIA+ pride with the dance music community. Apart from taking […]

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2019

Founder of music tech forum has died; outpourings of support for Mike McGrath

Peter Kirn - April 23, 2019

Resident Advisor shuts down comments; what’s the forum for non-toxic chat?

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2019

Conversations and an overflow of music, streaming from Ableton Loop

Peter Kirn - November 9, 2018

Hacking and 3D printing the future of violins, in a growing community

Peter Kirn - August 29, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

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