From the far edges of experimental electronic compositions, inside Elli Records’ In the Room

Radical times call for fearless experimentation – and fast. Elli Records bends polyrhythms, noise, and custom software to the breaking point. The toolmakers and sound alchemists talk to us about just what they’ve been building in there.

HEXO for Live is an arpeggiator transformed into a polyphonic compositional tool

Somehow, it started as an arpeggiator. But this Max for Live tool by K-Devices is now an advanced, polyphonic, polymetric tool for dreaming up rhythms and melodies.

Peter Kirn - January 2, 2020

More surprise in your sequences, with ESQ for Ableton Live

With interfaces that look lifted from a Romulan warbird and esoteric instruments, effects, and sequencers, K-Devices have been spawning surprising outcomes in Ableton Live for some time now. ESQ is the culmination of that: a cure for preset sounds and ideas in a single device.

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2018

AutoTrig and TATAT generate rhythms for Ableton, modular gear

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2018

Two sequenced Max for Live devices go off the usual grid

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2017

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