Heard it all before? Talking sound, discovery, and inspiration

Sometimes lost in conversations about technology or specific musical genre or minutia of social media is the fundamental question of what sound is and what we can discover. From Berlin’s tech/culture conference re:publica, we got to tackle some of those questions.

Someone made a bot for The Black Madonna, and it zeitgeist is

Presumably, very smart people are working on Artificial Intelligence, and soon even my clumsy prose will be replaced by a bot. Until then, though, readily available bot code spits out random text like a combination of magnetic poetry, William S. Burroughs, and a feline on catnip walking across a laptop.

Peter Kirn - July 7, 2017

This dummy’s guide to making techno is oddly compelling to watch

How simple is techno – that genre that seems unstoppable, from Asia to Antarctica? It’s simple enough that it can be reduced to … six steps. No, kind of – seriously. I expected to have my intelligence insulted by this video, and yet … uh, well, I’m an addict, because it just made me want […]

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2017

Watch a beautiful meditation on the function of music

Peter Kirn - June 30, 2016

Out-ER’s soundscapes, driven by real research into the feels

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - November 24, 2015

Jeff Mills on Audiences, Techno’s “Who Cares If You Listen”

- December 17, 2014

The Human Drummer Battles Drum Machine, in Poetic Film with Jojo Mayer

- May 14, 2014

Watch Artists Talk The Meaning of Life, Musically Speaking, In Free Feature Film [RBMA]

- February 17, 2014

Voice as Surface and Artifact, in the Experimental Drone Music of Jelena Glazova [Listen]

- April 2, 2013

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