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Here’s some lovely music in the woods, on monome norns arcologies and more
It’s a rig in the dirt, on a budget, with some beautiful music. DIY forest sounds are go. Now that we took a mental trip to a crowded Berlin bar playing hard EBM, let’s go instead into the woods with some open tools and very lovely leafy ambient. Just listen and watch: Perplex On out […]
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An experimental sound tech program embraces errors while teaching girls and nonbinary kids
Imagine not just embracing girls and nonbinary and queer trans kids as music students – but encouraging DIY, hot-wiring a cactus, playing together, and leaning into errors. It’s Error Music – Don’t Delete!
Peter Kirn - May 28, 2021
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Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here
The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded forest. Canilla’s latest creation deserves a full listen – so let’s premiere it here together, right now.
Peter Kirn - May 13, 2021
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The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021
DIY + Unusual Tech
OSC to MIDI conversion and MIDI over network, with a free, open source tool
Peter Kirn - March 15, 2021
DIY + Unusual Software Tech
Watch a hacked DJ technique made with karaoke tapes, by Ōedo Technica
Peter Kirn - January 12, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Tech
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