42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need right now

Electronic creativity has always embraced futurism – not uncritical futurism, but visionary imagination that leads out of apocalypse and dystopia. So there’s no time like the present for someone like Buckminster Fuller.

Watch a beautiful video about vocoder history from The New Yorker

It’s time for a throwback – this video was produced in 2014. But don’t miss out on a serious vocoder love fest full of history and celebrity interviews. And just wait, because the vocoder may be about to make an AI-fueled comeback.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2019

The story of the Eventide gear that transformed music, coined “plug-ins”

From the extraordinary first digital breakthroughs of the 70s, when lightbulbs stood in for LEDs, to what may have been the first use of the word “plug-in,”* we the inventors of Eventide’s classics – who now have a Grammy nod of their own.

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2018

MusicMakers Hacklab Berlin to take on artificial minds as theme

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2017

We talked to Dave Smith about those Pioneer sampler filters

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2016

Here’s How RX4 Can Save Your Bacon By Fixing Sound – Even on Hit TV

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2015

Can a Pioneer Turntable Do What a Technics Turntable Couldn’t?

- July 17, 2014

Just Do It: Moog Engineer Explains Why They Remade Keith Emerson’s Modular [Videos, Audio]

- May 9, 2014

Music Developer on Windows 8: A Leap Forward for Desktops; A Leap Backward for Metro, WinRT?

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2012

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