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Lethelium, a 24-string instrument fashioned from a bicycle wheel
You can pluck it, strike it, bow it, use your fingers, use a pick. The Lethelium is upcycled from bicycle parts and imagined in a cycle-punk zombie comic where bike parts save civilization. And all of this could only come from the imagination of Montreal artist Lateef Martin, an artist who lives a sci-fi reality others might only dream of. Or as Lateef puts it: “it reinvents the wheel.”
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Panel: liberating music technology for Arabic music and beyond
Against the backdrop of AL.FESTIVAL, the Berlin festival centering music from the Arabic world and diasporic communities, we gathered an expert group to discuss liberating technology from some of its Western biases and exclusionary design. Now you can listen back (and read more), with artists ABADIR and Basel Naouri plus Ableton’s Dr. Laurel Pardue, as chatter ranged from critical views of futurism to ways software can mesh with Indonesian gamelan.
No one shreds on keys like Mauritania’s Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla
Ahemdou Ahmed Lowla is on the move. Breaking out across Europe for the first time in 2019, I caught up with the Mauritanian WZN superstar last month. Hearing his music will change how you think about keyboards — and new stuff is on the way.
Peter Kirn - September 5, 2025
Music Music tech Tech
Renoise 3.5 is huge: phrase scripting, tuning support, splitter effect, more
Peter Kirn - July 8, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Live round-up: 12.2 is out, vids, a free Grain Slicer Rack, tuner, and more
Peter Kirn - June 12, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Teenage Engineering OP-XY: fully rebuilt OP-Z with display, CV, more
Peter Kirn - November 14, 2024
Gear Music tech Tech
Baby Audio Humanoid review: hard tuning, vocal transformer, wavetables
Peter Kirn - July 1, 2024
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