Music Stories
Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere
Pulsing with electronic punctuation, fuzzy layers and distorted pianos across expansive introspective surfaces, Emmanuel De La Paix on Terre brûlée charts richly imaginative narrative ambient. We caught up with the Zurich-based artist to premiere the cinematic “Heathen” video, reflect on life and December breaks, and get an eclectic end-of-year playlist refresh.
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MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV
It’s the sound and expression of a modular synth, but you can mix it with guitar sounds and play it with the guitar techniques you already know. Here’s the latest no-extra-cost addition to MOD Devices do-it-all mobile effects boxes.
Peter Kirn - May 24, 2022
Gear Music tech Tech
Fractured – Seefeel revisit their brilliant, tough 90s and reveal what’s coming this decade
The frightening, darkly beautiful music of Seefeel was revelatory from its early-90s debut. And now with a set of reissues and new projects, it’s the perfect time for David Abravanel to talk to the current Seefeel group. -Ed.
Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize
Peter Kirn - March 16, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Stories Tech
Here’s the biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere, in a free sample library
Peter Kirn - August 8, 2019
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Stories Tech
Apple’s latest GarageBand will help you learn an instrument, for free
Peter Kirn - June 27, 2018
Music tech Software Tech
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