Music Reviews
Productions gone live, as Jlin joins Third Coast Percussion on “Vernacular”
If today is a day to celebrate good things happening in the USA, you better also be listening to the epic collaboration between Jlin and Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion. That puts the Gary, Indiana-born Jerrilynn Patton (Jlin) right up alongside Philip Glass and David Longstreth, where frankly, she totally belongs. And it’s touring.
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Bana Haffar’s Ancient Future mutates memory and meaning in machines
If you feel at sea in a starless night, Ancient Future might summon charts from the ancestors, fragmented through samples and voltages, a hauntology of modular deconstruction. Bana Haffar, co-founder of Modular on the Spot in LA and Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon, has an essential offering out this month.
Peter Kirn - October 13, 2026
Modular-Analog Music
Soroush Khazaei, audiovisual artist, killed in an airstrike in Tehran
People are not numbers, and so among the rising tide of wartime deaths around the world are some familiar faces from our communities. Soroush Khazaei was an audiovisual artist who gave generously to the Iranian scene. He was killed earlier this week in Tehran by US/Israeli airstrikes.
In her own words: watch a free documentary on Éliane Radigue
Peter Kirn - February 27, 2026
Music
Laurie Spiegel’s Music Mouse is available now from Eventide
Peter Kirn - February 17, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
Here’s Laurie Spiegel introducing Music Mouse in the 1980s
Peter Kirn - February 16, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
