Music Stories
In 1975, BBC spelled out how MUZAK — and musical power – worked, maybe
It’s a master class in Western “common practice” music and its power. It decodes complex music theory and its impact on the mind. It’s also got some deeply entertaining action with a bearded psychiatrist operating a reel-to-reel machine and filters. Let’s watch this 1975 episode of BBC’s Horizon on the science of music and MUZAK.
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10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices
Forget what you know about drum machines. You’re about to open up a browser tab and listen to a drum machine made with a bouncing DVD logo, or a game of Minesweeper, or seismic data, De Bruijn sequences, or pics of cats and boots. Okay, it’s fairly short of 10k — they’re at 48 so far — but if this is your first time, you’d better plan on not getting any more work done today anyway.
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2025
Music tech Software Web
Arash Azadi, Universe in Prayer: Bohlen–Pierce “devotional electronics”
In a challenging three acts – purification, initiation, and revelation – Universe in Prayer – فَلَک در ذِکْر takes the Bohlen-Pierce scale as a starting point for an intentional “invocation of Otherness, mystery, and transcendence.” It’s the latest from friend-of-the-site Arash Azadi.
Strange-R modules: navigate generative melodic contours
Peter Kirn - December 23, 2024
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
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