Kyoka is imagining new worlds, playing machines, and exploring neurology: interview

Kyoka, the innovative producer and artist (Raster-Noton), has electrodes attached to her head with good reason. In collaboration with neurologists, she’s exploring the power of sound in mood and thought. She talks to us on the eve of a premiere at Berlin’s Signals Festival.

NASA’s Webb telescope could transform how we imagine digital art, along with our cosmos

Amidst meaningful and justified disenchantment with digital media, NASA’s Webb offers a different course for understanding our relationship with technology. It offers a chance to peer into our existence with greater understanding. It could be this generation’s “Blue Marble” – looking instead outward and deep into time. And it promises to be more than one image – way more than just one.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2022

Weddell seal vocalizations are cooler than your synthesizer, and we’re still learning more

When it comes to chilly polar sounds, it’s tough to top the incredible Antarctic Weddell seal. These creatures live in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, above and below sea ice – and scientists are discovering more and more about their audible and inaudible vocalizations.

Peter Kirn - June 28, 2022

Listen to this mix of sounds and music on the theme of phase transitions of water

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2021

In Glacier Music, sounds and songs capture urgency, deeply-felt and real

Peter Kirn - November 5, 2021

Uganda’s Afrorack goes from modular synths to a DIY disinfectant; more efforts worldwide

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2020

Watch Elsa Garmire’s pioneering laser show from 1972 – futuristic and expressive even now

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2020

The taste of music: listen to LJ Rich talk about synesthesia

Peter Kirn - October 26, 2018

Ranging from Neurology to Prince, Susan Rogers’ talk is must-watch

Peter Kirn - April 20, 2018

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