Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2025

The Blaster Beam, a massive instrument invented by Captain Kirk’s nephew

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2025

Faircamp lets you put sound, podcasts, and music on your own site

Peter Kirn - August 21, 2025

A 1970s DIY modular from Elektor Magazine just got reborn

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2025

GAUNG is a power station for electronic music in Yogyakarta

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2025

A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2025

Radio Shack’s TRS-80 now has polyphonic MIDI and a tracker

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2025

Harvestworks, NYC arts center founded in 1977, threatened by US funding cuts

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2025

Therminator, with a curvy abstract glyph of a box with cables and a dot in the center engraved into the 3D-printed case, USB-C and jack connections

Ther’minator by Eric Singer transforms LIDAR to modular, CV

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2025

maxess screenshots overlaid on one another, showing help pages: maxess.element, maxess.file, maxess.keyboard, and maxess.speech running in Max with help commentary.

Maxess, free externals for Max and Max for Live accessibility, available now

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025