Tour Beirut’s music underground in a free PDF, from the inside out

Crises are a given; resilience is a given – to slightly bastardize the author’s words on Beirut’s Underground Scene, Hajar Ibrahim’s portrait of a musical world. But in this book, released this summer, what you get is more personal. It’s the underground telling its own story, rather than having one framed for it.

Hey DJ, hey sampler – Circuit Rhythm 2.0 beat matches, samples in time, and more

Novation’s Circuit Rhythm is back, and it suddenly makes a lot more sense. The effects are editable, you can make scenes, you can sample in time (with fixed length recording), and in a first for samplers, there’s an explicit feature intended to let you beat match.

Peter Kirn - November 11, 2022

Live coding group toplap celebrates days of live streaming, events

What began as a niche field populated mainly by code jockeys has grown into a worldwide movement of artists, many of them new to programming. Onekey group, TOPLAP, celebrates 15 years of operation with live streams and events.

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2019

Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

Venezuela to Berlin, Hyperaktivist on MESS, love, and music community

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2018

In a documentary film, a return to Detroit and speaker f***ing

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2018

An underground resource brings house and techno back to its roots

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2017

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