Apollo 13 is playing out live, now, in a story told in newly-restored sound

The human experience has been changed by images of space, but the power of sound to tell the story is unfolding in new ways. So here’s a different kind of live stream this weekend – re-broadcast from inside NASA Mission Control, 50 years ago.

Begone, webcams: Dixon will premiere an album in gorgeous 3D mixed reality, today

We’ve gazed into grainy video feeds and literally watched multi-camera shoots of empty clubs. But we’re also starting to see a move into futuristic 3D and mixed reality – starting with one unique album premiere from the Innervisions mastermind.

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2020

Learn synthesis basics in your browser, free, with Ableton

If you still don’t know your LFO from your amplitude envelope from your square oscillator – or you’re trying to answer this for someone else – Ableton have made everything visual and playable and sonic, in a browser, for free.

Peter Kirn - June 26, 2019

An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in Switzerland

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2018

SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

The retro-futuristic Apparatum draws from Polish electronic music history

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2017

Fantasy Mansion is an EP that’s also a generative, 8-bit circuit with sync

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2017

Here’s how Mouse on Mars are using robots to expand their band

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2017

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