The words most used to describe releases at Hard Wax

“Now that’s one fine and classy, atmospheric, big room tool, son.” Here’s the data when you crawl Berlin electronic music shop Hard Wax for descriptive keywords.

Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space

Fahmi Mursyid from Indonesia has been creating oceans of wondrously sculpted sounds on netlabels for the past years. Be sure to watch these magical constructions on nothing but Walkman tape loops with effects pedals and VCV Rack patches – immense sonic drones from minimal materials.

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2018

Fake a $30k pro video controller with an APC40 or Beatstep and Davinci Resolve

We’re living in an age of video and motion graphics. But now not only can you get a free license of Davinci Resolve to use pro-level tools, but this hack will let you make a standard music controller do a convincing impression of a $30,000 controller. Finally, visuals get as easily hands-on as music.

Peter Kirn - October 15, 2018

This light sculpture plays like an instrument, escaped from Tron

Peter Kirn - September 24, 2018

Minecraft music making: watch someone play music with the game

Peter Kirn - September 11, 2018

Hack a Launchpad Pro into a 16-channel step sequencer, free

Peter Kirn - September 11, 2018

Bible thumper: watch a circuit bent bible, made on a dare

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

DU-NTSC is a modular visualizer, AV toy, and video generator

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

Forget vinyl: here’s a DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

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