The latest attempt to make digital music tangible: NFC-powered Muse Blocks

We are living in an immaterial world. Muse Blocks, tiles with embedded NFC chips, are one idea, and now team up with a popular electronic music label.

An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in Switzerland

What’s the sound of an exhibition devoted to silence? From John Cage recreations to the latest in interactive virtual reality tech, it turns out there’s a lot. The exhibition’s sound lead Jascha Dormann tells us more – and gives us a look inside.

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2018

SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex

Just when you’re bored with digital media installations, something happens that gets you back to childlike wonder mode. And a magical staircase is a pretty good way to do that.

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

The retro-futuristic Apparatum draws from Polish electronic music history

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

A giant-sized music box, made with digital tech and antique furniture

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2017

This interactive Fatima Yamaha show projects emotions into light

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2017

What if you could touch and feel a score?

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2017

Sony’s gestural projector could change interaction

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2017