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Lorenzo Colombo in live session, framed by speaker stacks, equipment from Torso and Soma on the table and metal percussive plates suspended behind him and on tables, as he strikes one plate with a hammer.

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FL on the Web: hands-on, Image-Line tells us what it all means

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Free Envion Deepscan turns your hard drive’s lost files into a soundscape

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025

Freesound, massive shared sounds library, turns 20 with talks and listening

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2025

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

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ZULI, as Swag Lee, turns Egyptian MP3 fragments into dizzying hip hop

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025