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Kickblast makes kick drum sounds for you, free, powered by Csound
There’s a classic fairy tale in which elves make shoes during the night for a shoemaker. Imagine that, but with kick drum sounds.
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Jean-Claude Risset, who reimagined digital synthesis, has died
We’re in a strange time, as we big farewell to a great generation of pioneers of electronic music. French composer Jean-Claude Risset’s work can still tickle our perception and challenge what’s possible. He helped expand the frontiers of what digital synthesis can do for our ears, and brought the technology to the European continent. And […]
Peter Kirn - November 22, 2016
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Listen to John Chowning tell how he invented FM synthesis
To this day, it’s a synthesis method capable of producing wonderfully otherworldly sounds. And now as its applications on cell phones and cheap PC audio fade into distant memory, FM synthesis is left as one of the great achievements of musical invention, full stop – let alone being a key milestone of 20th century technology. […]
Peter Kirn - June 14, 2016
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Read the article Bob Moog wrote when he met Leon Theremin
Peter Kirn - September 4, 2015
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