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Expressive playing with MPE, demystified
MPE, MIDI Polyphonic Expression, can make playing digital instruments expressive in ways we’ve desired for decades. It’s just down to understanding everything you can do – and composer Josh Madoff has a fantastic tutorial and Osmose demos that make this technology more accessible to anyone.
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TROVARSI x ALX-106 deliver brutal techno fed by serious live chops
Nothing puts life back in the groove quite like playing live. In a pairing of two total legends, Trovarsi and ALX-106 team up to drop some hard-slapping techno in the classic mold out on DC-based Black Techno Matters. And it’s got all the animation of their live sets combined with pitch-perfect production. It’s top-quality techno right when we need it: no hype, no TikTok genres, just a devastating kick from the kick.
Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025
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In Kreuzberg, artists from communities in exile present their own vision
It’s a different vision of a festival and exhibition, one that bubbles up from the Kiez instead of being collected in modern palaces. For the next few days, artists from the Berlin neighborhood around Kottbusser Tor will reveal their self-image in communities in exile.
Sequencing with light on an alien-looking instrument by Kacper Ziemianin
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2025
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Bliss out with Palette Sequencer, generative Max for Live Device
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2024
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Andrea Cichecki’s live “In Nature” series brings modular into open air
Peter Kirn - September 20, 2024
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Free Mintropolis EP Kirn & Meindl this weekend; modular and techno
Peter Kirn - August 25, 2024
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