Motion Music
Take fifteen minutes and watch the sun come up with hazy ambient music
Mixing MiniDV video, Roland JUNO-6 sounds, and gauzy analog processing, Dawn is a calming fifteen-minute break. The film is “an ambient, peaceful project for an uneasy time,” writes creator Benjamin Tennikoff.
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Journey to the forests of the Amazon and Poland with blind artist Izabela Dłużyk
Now is a time to listen more deeply. Sound artist Izabela Dłużyk, blind since birth, launched a crowdfunding campaign to “dream despite blindness” back in 2016 to travel to Peruvian rainforest. We can sonically travel with her in a full-length album of field recordings, The Amazon — Where the Moon Wept.
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024
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Andrea Cichecki’s live “In Nature” series brings modular into open air
There’s no reason synthesizers have to always appear in dingy industrial spaces – love those spaces as we do. Musician Andrea Chichecki has just completed the release of a three-part outdoor series of live performances on modular, and you can expect the same feeling of calm you might get from going along yourself.
Peter Kirn - September 20, 2024
Gear Modular-Analog Music Tech
Forester 2022 from Leafcutter John is a donationware modular sound naturewalk
Peter Kirn - December 14, 2021
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Here’s some lovely music in the woods, on monome norns arcologies and more
Peter Kirn - June 14, 2021
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Australia is using sound to monitor its wildlife and ecosystem
Peter Kirn - November 26, 2019
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