Remembering Achim Szepanski, Mille Plateaux founder and dissident

We’ve just learned of the passing of Achim Szepanski, founder of Mille Plateaux and Force Inc. labels, icon of glitch, “Clicks + Cuts,” and a visionary beacon of experimentalism across Germany and internationally. And just as importantly, a dissident. Here is a collection of remembrances in English and German.

Free presets, free filter, TAL-Filter-2 mean a new trance-y Age of Love for us all

After all this isolation, it only seems right to have a new Age of Love. By which I mean, of course – lush, lush 90s trance presets and everything for free.

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2021

Inside the transformational AV duo of Paula Temple and Jem the Misfit

Paula Temple and Jem the Misfit are working on the latest iteration of a project about transformation. It melts and fragments, crystallizes and forms, from its rich palette of hybridized techno and ambient textures, sonic and visual alike. And now, it’s set to be involved in some way in transformation beyond just the confines of […]

Peter Kirn - June 21, 2017

Skip the Computer: BeatStep, Programmed with iPad, SysEx Hack

Peter Kirn - September 8, 2015

These are the Best Things at Musikmesse: CDM Best of Show Awards

Peter Kirn - April 18, 2015

Dancer to Score to Animation: Coding, Decoding, and Recoding in a Choreography Lab

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2014

At NODE, A Community of Digital Artists Meets to Discuss Transforming the Future

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2013

First Look at ArKaos' Video Mapper Tool [Screenshots], as the VJ Developer Goes Pro

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2013

First Look at ArKaos’ Video Mapper Tool [Screenshots], as the VJ Developer Goes Pro

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2013

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