A very Unreal Halloween: playable Theremin, scenes from cinema

People continue to do wild things with Unreal Engine and MetaSounds. Celebrate Halloween with an interactive Theremin deep dive tutorial, and some classic cinema scenes from Halloween and The Shining recreated as ambient environments.

Happy 90th birthday to Herb Deutsch, educator, composer, and Moog synth co-inventor

It’s Herb Deutsch’s birthday today – and what better way to celebrate than listen to him talk about music, sound, and synthesizers? The co-creator of the Moog modular is featured in a just-released video and is a great professor to all of us as always. Pull up a chair.

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2022

An experimental sound tech program embraces errors while teaching girls and nonbinary kids

Imagine not just embracing girls and nonbinary and queer trans kids as music students – but encouraging DIY, hot-wiring a cactus, playing together, and leaning into errors. It’s Error Music – Don’t Delete!

Peter Kirn - May 28, 2021

The Theremin is 100 years old, and Moog is celebrating with new Claravox instrument

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2020

Spend an hour with Leon Theremin and all-star composers in Moscow, 1991

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2020

The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2019

Peter Theremin’s haunting music, on his great-grandfather’s invention

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2018

iAbyssal is a new light theremin synth for your iOS device

Ashley Elsdon - October 28, 2017

Could you spy on someone using a microwave oven as a mic?

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2017

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