Music Stories
An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”
Truly imaginative electronic music can let you screen science fiction in your mind’s eye. Dive into Cluster Lizard’s LP, close your eyes, and let their sounds be a score to legendary Ukrainian author, philosopher, and dissident Oles’ Berdnyk.
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Watch the 2006 documentary 8 BIT to see chip music and art at its peak – now online
It’s hard to believe not only that 15 years have passed since this movie, but how far chip aesthetics have exploded in global culture. So transport yourself back in time and treat yourself to an essential documentary on the scene, now watchable online. It’s the next best thing to a time machine to the mid-2000s […]
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2021
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In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online
Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and practice of one-of-a-kind musical instruments. You can watch – and you should, with a dizzying array of utter legends who are normally never in the same room.
Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021
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Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators
Peter Kirn - October 1, 2021
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Laurie Anderson, in video, on the stories behind her custom-built instruments
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021
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Tom Oberheim just got his name back from Music Tribe
Peter Kirn - August 3, 2021
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