User interface for Creature From the ID, featuring dials, VU meters, and a hexagonal organization with oscillators on the two sides and mixing and send controls at the center.

Creature from the ID lets you live your 50s sci-fi soundtrack fantasies

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2024

Here’s an hour of the 1985 3D-animated world of Robert Abel

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2024

Mid-1980s GE and Maxell cassette player advertising was next-level

Peter Kirn - May 6, 2024

Class is in session: DeForrest Brown on Black innovation in music

Peter Kirn - April 23, 2024

In the 90s, this astrophysicist made trippy pop from star sounds

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2024

Music notation on a 4000-year timeline and more of music beyond Europe

Peter Kirn - March 26, 2024

You should know James West, the Black inventor of the electret microphone

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2024

The Biamp MR/140 reverb used by Joy Division, as IRs and Ableton Live rack

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2024

Suzanne Ciani’s YouTube is a treasure trove, and she’s uploading more now

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2023

That time Kraftwerk invented electronic drum pads and made ethereal sounds

Peter Kirn - December 26, 2023