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bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!
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Three years of solar flares transformed into music: ESA x Maple Pools
See and hear what our nearest star and mass nuclear fusion reactor has been up to in the past three years. The solar show is captured by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission and new UV images and musical sonification.
Peter Kirn - January 15, 2025
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LA friends and colleagues, we’re thinking of you; fires signal planetary crisis
The home of so many in the music and musical instruments community has been consumed by fire. Friends and colleagues in the Los Angeles area, you’re on our minds this week; I hope you’ve gotten to safety. And we can’t mince words: planetwide, every second of this climate crisis now counts.
In the 90s, this astrophysicist made trippy pop from star sounds
Peter Kirn - April 10, 2024
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Selestium’s plucked Quiverer M5 module, as discovered on an alien dig
Peter Kirn - February 22, 2024
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
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