monome at 20: memories of the grid, in pictures

Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their monome company and project this week. For anyone moved by their creations over the years, there will be no escape from the feels in this gallery — and, of course, I couldn’t resist adding some extra memories from that era.

How the Open Music Lab creates safe space for refugees, marginalized artists [Hacklab Inputs]

This is an easy one to relate to: you want space to be creative, to grow in your practice, and to express emotions We got to hear from a volunteer-led effort that makes that kind of space, for refugees and for people who have often lacked access.

Peter Kirn - August 26, 2022

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Machine learning is presented variously as nightmare and panacea, gold rush and dystopia. But a group of artists hacking away at CTM Festival earlier this year did something else with it: they humanized it.

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

MusicMakers Hacklab Berlin to take on artificial minds as theme

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2017

What if you could touch and feel a score?

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2017

A call for emotion in musical inventions, at Berlin hacklab

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2016

Hack – listen to one LED create its own micro rave

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2016

Building instruments, making future rituals in Berlin (open call)

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2015

An ‘Interspecies’ Music Interface Combines a Mask, Bacteria

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2015