The best free tools for working with modular synthesis and music

Patching for the people – there’s no reason cost or access has to keep you from the powers and fun of modular synthesis and music making. VCV Rack’s launch this month got lots of attention, but there are other options, too. Here the latest, best picks.

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

SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment

It’s the basis of a lot of the live coding scene, and an unmatched powerhouse, free and open source. And it gets a big update this week.

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2021

arcologies is wonderfully archaic music art for monome norns

Peter Kirn - September 1, 2020

Free sound and music code environment SuperCollider is adding Ableton Link support

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2020

Here are ten hours of infinite fractals and falling Shepard’s Tones

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2020

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

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