Music
“High” and “low” pitch are not universal; sometimes there are crocodiles
“High” and “low” pitch are universal, right? Wrong. Try large and small, thick and thin, and among Zimbabwe’s Shona people, even crocodile and … those who follow crocodile. A newly updated online resource is collecting variants.
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Fluss: Hainbach and Bram Bos teamed up on an iOS granular app, and it’s an instant gem
Bram Bos and Hainbach have found a beautiful fusion of hardware inspiration and touch-native controls to produce an approachable, elegant, performance-friendly granular instrument in Fluss. Here’s how it works. Granular synthesis, far from just an exotic effect, underlies many of today’s digital audio manipulation approaches. As a performance instrument and effect, though, it benefits from […]
The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies
Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer tape – and a surprisingly deep feature set.
Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Tech
Bitwig Studio 4.1: color palettes, note FX with physics and more, Sampler release chaining
Peter Kirn - November 4, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021
DIY + Unusual Tech
Make orbits of planets and moons into music, with a VCV Rack module and an upcoming synth
Peter Kirn - August 20, 2020
Music tech Software Stories Tech
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