The strength of grieving together, in Felisha Ledesma and Snakeskin

We live in a world of solitary trauma and unrealized grief. We can sit alone with our phones and see it reduced to images in an algorithm. We can see our loved ones go through trauma in ways we can’t even understand or reach. In Palm of Hand, through extemporaneous collaboration between Snakeskin and Felisha Ledesma, Malmö and Beirut, there is a healing expression of all this agonizing, fragmented experience. The result can be deeply centering, a balm to play on loop.

ENDOGEN: a deep experimental exploratorium of lowercase synthesis

Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There’s a lot to cover as far as what it can do — but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2026

Befaco Oneiroi, all-in-one soundscape module, now in VCV Rack

Oneiroi from Befaco is a mythical variety chocolate box where every flavor is delicious. It’s an experimental slash drone slash sound design treasure box. And now it’s in VCV Rack.

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2024

Andrius Mamontovas’ haunting “Bottled Wind” records war, week by week

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2024

Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2021

LIRA-8 reimagines the LYRA-8 organismic drone synth in Pd, VST, AU free – donationware

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2020

In Montreal, a drone concert on balconies in quarantine

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2020

Ambient music you can time to a sunset, from Christopher Willits

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2019

Mournful drone sounds of a repurposed HP test device

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2019