Music Stories
POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights
For my semi-regular program POST for Refuge Worldwide this week, I focused on new releases. This highlighted Lebanon in particular and still didn’t cover the flurry of releases there, but it covered other places, too. It’s all recommended, so here’s the full playback and track listing with links.
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Music for the displaced from Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center
In Lebanon, over one million people, about a fifth of the population, have now been forcibly displaced by Israel. From inside the country and uniting an artist community around the world, Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center have issued a powerful protest in two musical compilations — and an urgent cry to support those displaced […]
2025 in review: meaningful music for when things fall apart
I won’t mince words about the year – on a global scale, things seemed to be falling apart. I’ve likely been to more protests and rallies in 2025 than since before COVID. But we have each other, and we have empathy, and we do what we can.
Worlds of sound from hacked hard drives, piano-triggered modular
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2025
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Sublime, modular sonic worlds from Beirut, with Munma (Jawad Nawfal)
Peter Kirn - March 17, 2024
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A deep compilation to aid in rebuilding Beirut, made from sounds of construction
Peter Kirn - August 4, 2023
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