Go watch this video on Buchla, Spectraphon, and spectral animation

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2025

Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024

Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2024

A fantasy combo of Chicago footwork and Polish folk rhythmic asymmetry

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2024

Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Logic Pro surprise: authentic recreation of 1982 Quantec Room Simulator

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2024

Peak 90s Opcode in a Vision training tape, NIN music video

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2024

Quincy Jones in four essential interviews

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2024

Okay, the “frog” bass stabs on MJ’s Thriller is a Casiotone MT-60

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2024

20 years ago today, I published the first stories to Create Digital Music

Peter Kirn - October 27, 2024