Establishment Music Stories
Betty Apple, sci-fi, mermaids, volcanoes, techno, time travel: album + interview
Betty Apple’s Taiwan Bay Be is a full-length album exploring Taiwanese identity, time travel, sound, and the cosmic. Released this year on our Establishment, Betty is now in Berlin for a live presentation on Wednesday – and she has a lot to say, from unpacking the mermaid fairy tail to imagining science fiction futures and sound’s relationship to “God” and life after death.
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Creature from the ID lets you live your 50s sci-fi soundtrack fantasies
The latest Giorgio Sancristoforo creation is an instrument inspired by the self-generating electronic circuits of Louis and Bebe Barron. Voyage to a Forbidden Planet on your computer.
Peter Kirn - June 9, 2024
Music tech Reviews Software Tech
Make step-sequenced mayhem in this free plug-in – by dragging baby aliens around
Witchpig’s Alien Step Mutha is a free step-sequenced multi-effects plug-in. But in addition to controls like impact, destroy, and subsonic/hypersonic, you’ll tweak settings by dragging little aliens around and summoning sequences from their mum.
Peter Kirn - July 25, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
Watch a half hour documentary on the sound of Star Wars Rogue One
Peter Kirn - March 29, 2017
Music Music tech
The making of a fanciful album imagining a post-apocalyptic future
Peter Kirn - October 19, 2016
Music Music tech
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