Music Stories
Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere
Pulsing with electronic punctuation, fuzzy layers and distorted pianos across expansive introspective surfaces, Emmanuel De La Paix on Terre brûlée charts richly imaginative narrative ambient. We caught up with the Zurich-based artist to premiere the cinematic “Heathen” video, reflect on life and December breaks, and get an eclectic end-of-year playlist refresh.
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Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old
Arturia’s V-Collection 9 is more than just another “add some more instruments, update a few things” V-Collection refresh. This one goes somewhere new and dreamy – both with new instruments that aren’t remakes of old stuff, and some of the biggest advancements coming in the form of rebuilds for some of your favorites.
Roland releases JUNO-X polysynth, which can be a vintage JUNO, or a lot more
The days of Roland slapping a vintage name on something fairly unrelated are over. The JUNO-X will absolutely behave like a vintage JUNO. But the digital heart underneath also means it’ll be everything from a vocoder to a JD-800 – which means if you are in the market for a Roland keyboard, you’ve got some choices to make.
Free plug-ins: Finding beauty in the Emergence granular effect for Mac and Windows
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2022
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Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize
Peter Kirn - March 16, 2021
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Focus your distracted mind with Tonepaper – music, plus Serum and Ableton Live sound pack
Peter Kirn - February 11, 2021
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