Music Stories
Rafael Anton Irisarri on the architecture of loneliness and the physics of sound
For over two decades, Rafael Anton Irisarri has been carving out a space that exists somewhere between the tectonic weight of modern classical and the vaporous drift of ambient music. Whether recording under his own name or as The Sight Below, Irisarri’s work is characterized by a physical sense of scale – soundscapes that feel like they have weather systems and geological history.
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Mudjaq TapeLeap, a freaky tape/lo-fi looper that can blink, be broken
It has a “broken” button and an eyelid that you can blink on and off. It lets you record or set feedback to 150%. It overdubs, it loops, it — does it in opposing directions. No, it’s not another tape delay/looper. Every single setting in TapeLeap from Mudjaq, for Max for Live, is bonkers and fantastic.
Peter Kirn - December 11, 2025
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Sampleslicer MKIII, the definitive real-time sampler looper slicer module
Live performance requires practice. And creating a truly performance-oriented module also requires a long process of iteration and refinement. Sampleslicer MKIII, the live sampling-looping-slicing labor, by Jan Willem (ginkosynthese), is the culmination of that process. And it just keeps getting better: today’s beta update, just announced, adds features like momentary reverse, non-repeating one-shot, and gate-triggered resets.
Peter Kirn - July 11, 2025
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Transit 2 from Baby Audio, Andrew Huang: more FX, “Motion Modes”
Peter Kirn - October 15, 2024
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KORG’s microKORG, KingKORG NEO: vocalist, or Economy Plus
Peter Kirn - January 18, 2024
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Instant ambient: Noise Engineering’s Versio gets its own third-party drifting looper
Peter Kirn - July 31, 2023
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