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Maggi Payne, photographing crystals, composing for Moog modular III, more
Texas-born composer Maggi Payne has just quietly been busy being a legend over decade after decade. Well known to Mills College (as its Center for Contemporary Music co-director until 2018), if you don’t know her, you should. And this is just the kind of Sunday to gaze at some crystals and listen to her ethereal textures on the then already-vintage Moog modular Series III, in a tip straight from The Bob Moog Foundation.
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GAS TV: these two gorgeous gear films can inspire experimental soundtracks
Cinematic Laboratory has produced two films that are so beautiful, you can almost put them on as a soundtrack and visual atmosphere. Meet VHIKK X by FORGE TIME / Glasgow Synth Guild, and Kharper from ERROR Instruments.
Peter Kirn - August 6, 2025
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Arash Azadi, Universe in Prayer: Bohlen–Pierce “devotional electronics”
In a challenging three acts – purification, initiation, and revelation – Universe in Prayer – فَلَک در ذِکْر takes the Bohlen-Pierce scale as a starting point for an intentional “invocation of Otherness, mystery, and transcendence.” It’s the latest from friend-of-the-site Arash Azadi.
Peter Kirn - May 27, 2025
Music
Arash Azadi’s music returns to primordial states of human existence
Peter Kirn - November 6, 2024
Music
Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in
Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024
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Remembering Achim Szepanski, Mille Plateaux founder and dissident
Peter Kirn - September 25, 2024
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