A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news

It seems the legends are true – there really was LSD added to vintage synths. A Bay Area, California Buchla 100 reportedly triggered an acid trip decades later. Allegedly, anyway.

Post-album techno: 9 years of live sequence data, from Shawn Rudiman

Here’s techno as it’s lived in the moment – the actual improvised grooves of nine years of live sets, echoed as a flood of glitchy, modem-like sounds from a war-tested Alesis MMT-8 sequencer.

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2019

Automated techno: Eternal Flow generates dance music for you

Techno, without all those pesky human producers? Petr Serkin’s Eternal Flow is a generative radio station – and even a portable device – able to make endless techno and deep house variations automatically.

Peter Kirn - April 29, 2019

Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019

Oops: April Fools’, at best, gave us stuff we actually want

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2019

Here are some of the weirdest musical instrument ideas from NAMM

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2019

The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2019

A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019

Here’s an Electro-Harmonix pedal in concrete, for some reason

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2018

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