Inside the esoteric moon music of Doc Sleep, underground connector

Leftfield grooves, cycles inspired by the cinematic qualities of lunar and natural world – welcome to Doc Sleep’s “Your Ruling Planet.” I talked to the Room 4 Resistance resident and Jacktone Records co-owner about her work.

Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live

Instead of just accepting all this machine learning hype, why not put it to the test? Magenta Studio lets you experiment with open source machine learning tools, standalone or inside Ableton Live.

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

The mysterious, murky, glitchy-future sounds you hear from, AYRTBH, Shanghai’s Wang Changcun, emerges from an algorithm. That software can make this album over and over again without sounding the same. The artist explains – and shares a specially generated exclusive for CDM readers.

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

Max 8: Multichannel, mappable, faster patching is here

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Watch an Ableton Live sequence made physical on the monome grid

Peter Kirn - August 6, 2018

Mod Max: One free download fixes Live 10’s new kick

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

Hugo rattled Berghain’s enormous system, talked to us about sound

Peter Kirn - March 9, 2018

Ableton Live 10 arrives: how you’ll use it, what it means for Max for Live

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2018

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