Music Stories
Pitch is political: learning Arabic maqams and decolonizing music
Sami Abu Shumays has uploaded his complete lecture on politics and maqams. He talks about how decolonizing music also meant decolonizing himself—reconnecting to his roots as a Palestinian American. This is essential context for Sami’s work, which includes the Arabic tuning section of Ableton Live 12’s tuning implementation and free companion site.
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Analog Waveguide module uses 1971 theory to make a killer resonator
It’s 2024’s newest Eurorack module from CHAIR, The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research. But the inspiration dates back to some 1970s magazines and analog signal processing theory. What you get is an amazing physical modeling resonator for patching that sounds extraordinary. In a world of sound-alike gear, this is just the sort of experimental […]
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2024
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Music notation on a 4000-year timeline and more of music beyond Europe
There’s no need to imagine the history and conception of music as beginning and ending in western Europe. The history of music is far older, richer – and stranger than that. Here’s a glimpse of some of that and more resources to help broaden our sense of what music can be.
Roland and Universal Music Group partner on “AI for Music”
Peter Kirn - March 21, 2024
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Baby Audio’s Atoms mass-spring physical modeling synth, tested
Peter Kirn - February 12, 2024
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Since it’s 22.02.2022, here are a bunch of musical palindromes
Peter Kirn - February 22, 2022
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Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving
Peter Kirn - February 10, 2022
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