Music
“High” and “low” pitch are not universal; sometimes there are crocodiles
“High” and “low” pitch are universal, right? Wrong. Try large and small, thick and thin, and among Zimbabwe’s Shona people, even crocodile and … those who follow crocodile. A newly updated online resource is collecting variants.
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Ableton releases free Microtuner – but tuning is more than spaces between notes
Ableton has released another free Max for Live device. It’s cool, it can be useful, it’s free (if you have Live Suite or a Max for Live license). But it’s worth pausing to consider whether tuning solutions could be more.
Since it’s 22.02.2022, here are a bunch of musical palindromes
Wow, yay, LOL. 22.02.2022! Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is? 22.02.2022! LOL, yay, wow!
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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Make Noise are turning a classic 1972 synthesis book into a video series
Peter Kirn - March 21, 2018
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