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

There’s a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It’s a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also a drone maker. But whatever it is, Rymdigare transports everything you do to a warm, happy place. It’s like drizzling stuff with warm chocolate.

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

The wonderfully mysterious analog LYRA-8 synthesizer world now has an unofficial digital cousin – and it’s free-or-pay-what-you-can for Pure Data (and cross-platform AU and VST).

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2020

In Montreal, a drone concert on balconies in quarantine

Social distancing has brought impromptu balcony concerts from opera to DJ sets to ritual applause. But Montreal has one you might get behind: drones.

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

Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2018

Voice as Surface and Artifact, in the Experimental Drone Music of Jelena Glazova [Listen]

- April 2, 2013

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