DIY + Unusual Music Tech
Watch a hacked DJ technique made with karaoke tapes, by Ōedo Technica
Vinyl? CDJ? Meh. Hand-mixing and “scratching” karaoke cassette tapes on hacked machines as a new form of strange pop music DJing? Now we’re talking. Behold the YouTube channel of 大江戸テクニカ (Ōedo tekunika).
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Electronic virtuoso Thomas Piper’s insistent voice delivers in honest, powerful “Permission to Live”
Thomas Piper’s Permission to Live is a powerful, personal statement. It comes from one of the few people who plays Ableton Push like his main instrument, from an artist who draws from a hundred skills.
Peter Kirn - June 6, 2020
Music Music tech Stories
Bionic synthesis: artists make music with a prosthetic arm, eye motion
Accessibility in music can mean expanding expression beyond what is normally physically possible. For one artist, that means jacking a prosthesis as CV – for another, overcoming paralysis to make music with eyes alone. Bertolt Meyer was already producing and DJing, even with a birth condition that left him without the lower portion of one […]
Peter Kirn - February 17, 2020
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music Music tech Software Tech
The E-mu SP-1200 sampler is getting a reboot: SP 2400
Peter Kirn - June 17, 2019
Gear Music tech Tech
Get inspired by how Che Pope tracks live – and manages time
Peter Kirn - July 10, 2018
Music tech Stories
Meet the guy you can blame for all those air horn sounds everywhere
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2017
Music Music tech
808 documentary gets release as Apple exclusive in December
Peter Kirn - November 15, 2016
Music Music tech
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