1930s Soviet optical synthesis animation looks positively futuristic after 4K restoration

It’s synthesis from paper – sounds crafted quite literally by hand, using drawn animation, then optically synthesized. But after this 4K restoration, it’s clear how much these 1930s inventors were ahead of their time.

Jam like you’re in a Tarkovsky film with this major app update

Virtual ANS from prolific omni-platform developer Alexander Zolotov brings back spectral synthesis like it’s the mid-century USSR. But it also future-proofs that tech – full Android and iOS (plus desktop) support, and now a version that’s polyphonic and MIDI playable.

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2019

For ‘Chernobyl’ score, Hildur Guðnadóttir went to a nuclear power plant

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir went the extra distance for her score for Chernobyl = taking a real power plant as inspiration for her haunting score.

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2019

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2018

Balalaikas to synths, the Russians at Musikmesse cover the gamut

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2018

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

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2017

Enter the trippy, fanciful world of Soviet light art studio Prometheus

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2017

Read the article Bob Moog wrote when he met Leon Theremin

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2015

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