Clark on friendly parasites and why music needs friction

On the heels of Steep Stims, Clark’s latest full-length, we spoke at length about piano delusions, seriousness and play, film scoring, repetition, hardware, live performance, and the strange necessity of cultivating “friendly parasites” in the creative process.

Modalics Beat Scholar: a new hyper-divisible drum machine plug-in made of pizzas

Beat Scholar promises to let you slice and re-slice with a built-in sampler and endless free subdivisions – without losing flow. Move over x0x and steps. Now it’s all about pizzas. Infinite pizzas.

Peter Kirn - September 6, 2022

Roaches, mealworms, shrieking bubbles, and more in free Richard Devine sound samples

The chalk is underwater, screaming like a chattering alien. Or that’s how it sounds through a hydrophone. Enter the weird world of some of Richard Devine’s field recordings – then grab the sounds for your own Creative Commons-licensed creations.

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

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