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Celebrate Eliane Radigue at 90 with a free documentary and fresh, radical re-releases
“I prefer to leave complete freedom to the listener … letting them find their own music within themselves from the sounds I offer.” Happy birthday to legendary composer Eliane Radigue – and now is the perfect time to discover yourself in her sounds, if you haven’t already.
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Free plug-ins: Arturia Tape MELLO-FI adds Mellotron tape goodness to anything
‘Tis the season to throw some wobbly retro tape qualities to your tracks on some holiday break time for all of us, hopefully. Arturia’s Tape MELLO-FI brings a full spectrum of distortion, lo-fi tape, and width and color options – for free through the end of the month.
Peter Kirn - December 21, 2021
Music tech Reviews Software Tech
Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful
There’s a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It’s a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also a drone maker. But whatever it is, Rymdigare transports everything you do to a warm, happy place. It’s like drizzling stuff with warm chocolate.
Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators
Peter Kirn - October 1, 2021
Music tech Software Stories Tech
Laurie Anderson, in video, on the stories behind her custom-built instruments
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021
DIY + Unusual Motion Music Music tech Tech
Cassette turntablism is a thing, and you need to watch more tape DJ videos from Japan
Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021
DIY + Unusual DJ Music tech Tech
Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument
Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
BLEASS brings tape stop and slowdown and Granulizer to Mac and PC – plus CDM bonus
Peter Kirn - June 30, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
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