The Web’s biggest guide to electronic music genre just got a huge update

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music is back. Its third major overhaul gives it a new look, and brings its sprawling map of electronic style to 166 genres, 11,321 tracks, and exhaustive descriptions to match.

Explore the visual wonders of TouchDesigner: Summit, free workshop video

Few software tools have proved as expressive in generative visuals or audiovisual performance as TouchDesigner. Get introduced to its AV powers in a new, free video – or if you can make it Montreal, get the full experience live. TouchDesigner is a dataflow tool – a graphical, patchable development environment – uniquely suited to squeezing […]

Peter Kirn - July 3, 2019

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

Vadim is a master of the dark arts of DSP – listen to him explain filters

Peter Kirn - October 19, 2018

DIY music gloves for everyone, as Imogen Heap project gets kid friendly

Peter Kirn - October 12, 2018

Bastl TV: Patching and looping and Nikol teaches complex envelopes

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

Learn synth basics live with Novation – and more synth-y resources

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2018

Nikol returns to teach beginners modular – next, panning and ducking

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2018

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