Jlin, Holly Herndon, and ‘Spawn’ find beauty in AI’s flaws

Musicians don’t just endure technology when it breaks. They embrace the broken. So it’s fitting that Holly Herndon’s team have produced a demonic spawn of machine learning algorithms – and that the results are wonderful.

Listen to John Chowning tell how he invented FM synthesis

To this day, it’s a synthesis method capable of producing wonderfully otherworldly sounds. And now as its applications on cell phones and cheap PC audio fade into distant memory, FM synthesis is left as one of the great achievements of musical invention, full stop – let alone being a key milestone of 20th century technology. […]

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2016

Music and math unite, from Chowning to Rhythmicon

You have to love German. In English, I can string together whole paragraphs that try and fail to capture the potential of electronic sound. In German, we get to call an event Technosphärenklänge – a word whose utterance is a timbral adventure in itself. And in an event with that name promising to be a […]

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2016

7 Ways SONAR+D is Asking Bigger Questions About Music Tech

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2015

Listen to an All-Female Chorus of Electronic Music Experimentation, from Akkamiau

Peter Kirn - May 27, 2015

Listen to Holly Herndon’s ‘Platform’ and the Emotional Content of the Laptop

Peter Kirn - May 20, 2015

Holly Herndon, Ethereal and Heavy-Hitting, Creates Video World as Deliciously Surreal as Auditory One

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Bleeding-Edge Musical Innovation, Live from CCRMA; Full Report, Monolake + Tarik Barri Live

- May 17, 2013

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