In Beirut and abroad, critical aid for Lebanon: music, events, interview

Music venues and artists in Lebanon continue to collect essential funds and supplies for forcibly displaced people. Here’s an update on how that’s going, a guide to fundraising events internationally, some music, and a conversation on community efforts at Nation Station.

Arturia teasing announcement, livestream keynote for Tuesday

French maker Arturia is reaching its 25th birthday, and they’re promising some news. Cue the Also sprach Zarathustra or, uh, Ainsi parlait Arturia.

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2024

Immerse yourself in the raw, vibrating AV world of Temp-Illusion x Amir B Ash

Fling yourself onto a timbral buzz saw, with brutal synthetic surfaces, and then unleash a pounding groove. Temp-Illusion have released a full-length, multi-camera video of their live audiovisual performance Caustic Surfaces with artist Amir B. Ash, and it is punishingly good.

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2024

Free through Jan 4 – Arturia Refract super unison multi-effect

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2023

As crisis continues, albums bring Turkey and Syria earthquake relief

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2023

Expressive E’s Osmose gestural keyboard instrument arrives, with artist backing

Peter Kirn - January 5, 2023

IRCAM ASAP plug-in suite transforms and remixes sounds; part of it is free

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2022

XODES are helping make 1U Eurorack a thing with tiny 808 modules – and more [hands-on]

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2022

Celebrate Eliane Radigue at 90 with a free documentary and fresh, radical re-releases

Peter Kirn - January 26, 2022

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