Music Stories
Alvin Lucier, who saw sonic poetry in pencils and soundscapes everywhere, has died
An imaginative generation continues to pass away from us, now with the death of Alvin Lucier.
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NAP, a free, high-performance data-driven visual and audio platform, is now slicker than ever
Secret sauce? Hardly. It’s more like a hot sauce competition with everyone sharing recipes. Naivi’a NAP Framework, if you missed it, is an open-source, high-octane toolset for digital artists that’s ready to plug into your data, any protocol (OSC, MIDI, Artnet, serial, Web), and push graphics to the edge. And it keeps getting better.
Peter Kirn - October 15, 2021
Motion Music tech Software Tech
In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online
Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and practice of one-of-a-kind musical instruments. You can watch – and you should, with a dizzying array of utter legends who are normally never in the same room.
Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021
Music Music tech Stories Tech
The Insolventunclesam is a synth about printing money, by Gijs Gieskes
Peter Kirn - July 27, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here
Peter Kirn - May 13, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Stories Tech
The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021
DIY + Unusual Tech
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