Juneteenth lineup round-up and Black Techno Matters scorchers

Juneteenth is about emancipation, and it’s expressed in musical joy across the USA today. Here are our friends from Black Techno Matters with their community calendar of events today — one might be near you — plus two recent releases you should hear wherever you are.

Tim Exile built an experimental modular system, all about playability

“Music production feels pointless now,” says Tim — but years after walking away from DAWs, he’s embraced instrument building. New Modular System is a patchable environment, constructed in Reaktor, that’s truly Exile-ish in philosophy. It’s not about a bunch of wire connections. You drop in colored modules and get straight to tweaking, generating, and playing — with wild, massively diverse results.

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2026

Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis

Imagine granular synthesis, taken in entirely different dimensions. That’s Incline — Cristian Vogel’s cross-bred mixture of microsound and machine learning segmentation. It explodes sounds into a highly configurable topography, then applies precise envelopes, with unique rhythmic and textural results. Here’s how to explore those strange new worlds.

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2026

S.A.D. cure mix o’ the day: mx. pinky on Hong Kong Community Radio

Peter Kirn - December 11, 2025

ZAVOLOKA’s high-protein live set on the new Waldorf synth is don’t-miss

Peter Kirn - December 11, 2025

Jazz Szu-Ying Chen and Surgeon remind us why craft and art matter

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2025

Physical modeling, modular explorations with Adam Pietruszko and AAS’ CV-3

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025

Here’s Jeff Mills live at Tokyo’s Liquid Room ca 1995-1996, plus driving

Peter Kirn - November 10, 2025

Inside Kyiv’s hackerspace, a growing DIY synth and experimental noise scene

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2025