Apollo 13 is playing out live, now, in a story told in newly-restored sound

The human experience has been changed by images of space, but the power of sound to tell the story is unfolding in new ways. So here’s a different kind of live stream this weekend – re-broadcast from inside NASA Mission Control, 50 years ago.

Gorgeous electro-acoustic instruments mix sculpture and noise

Forget analog pedals or digital boxes – 10cars have made a series of electro-acoustic inventions covered in wires and springs. And they sound wild and strange.

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2019

This radio station broadcasts sounds of rats – and it sounds amazing

Rat communication, adjusted for human hearing, makes for surprisingly musical listening. That’s right – you may enjoy the sweet serenade of an actual rat burrow on NYC’s Lower East Side.

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2019

An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in Switzerland

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2018

Mammoth Beat Organ is a giant crazy mechanical music machine

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2018

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

The retro-futuristic Apparatum draws from Polish electronic music history

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2018

Ivy is an epic 240-step hardware sequencer as sound installation

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2017

There’s a synth symphony for 100 cars coming, based on tuning

Peter Kirn - October 3, 2017