Disquiet’s Junto is community music making — now in its 750th edition

It’s been running continuously, without a break, since 2012. Every Thursday morning, Disquiet’s Marc Weidenbaum posts a call to a community for a new compositional assignment. And this week, the project reaches the 750th (!) week. That means a call for something epic.

littlescale’s Simple Audio Editor: a free, no-install audio editor in your browser

Prolific as always, Sebastian Tomczak (aka littlescale) just dropped this gem. What do you need nine times out of ten from an audio editor? Visualize, check levels, trim, gain, fade, reverse, normalize, export — now you can do all of that with one handy index.html file and any browser, free.

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026

CDJ-3000X: first CDJ to go online; expanded usability, sound quality

AlphaTheta, the company that DJs will probably never stop calling “Pioneer,” has a major update for their flagship deck. It starts to make the CDJ-3000 seem more like a foundation for this: expanded media access, online connectivity, and some welcome usability, reliability. and sound improvements.

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2025

“All rivers lead to the same ocean”: UbuWeb, pirate shadow library, is back

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2025

Fire mix from Janus Rose, full of unreleased music: latest POST

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2023

Like Discord for music: Endlesss introduces Clubs

Peter Kirn - August 17, 2023

Subreddits like r/synthesizers have joined the Reddit protest blackouts

Peter Kirn - June 12, 2023

DuckDuckGo search hack – it’s an instant bpm calculator (and finds frequencies, guitar tab)

Peter Kirn - October 6, 2021

No, sharing your Spotify year-end artist stats is not a good idea – here’s why not

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2019